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phone:
(508) 289 – 2381
fax: (508) 457-2134 vstarczak@whoi.edu
 POSITION:
Research Specialist
AWARDS:
California State Scholar, U.C.L.A. 1972-1973
Predoctoral Summer Fellowship, University of
Connecticut, 1981, 1982
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of
Connecticut, 1983
National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship,
Harvard School of Public Health, 1986
EDUCATION:
1975 B.A.,
University of California Los Angeles (Zoology)
1979 M.S.,
University of the Pacific (Marine Ecology)
1984 Ph.D.,
University of Connecticut (Ecology)
1987 S.M.,
Harvard School of Public Health (Biostatistics)
RESEARCH
INTERESTS:
Coastal and deep-sea benthic ecology, animal
behavior, evolutionary biology, statistics.
CURRENT
PROJECTS:
Dispersal and settlement of benthic invertebrate
larvae; pilot census of marine life in the Gulf of Maine.
PUBLICATIONS:
Blake,
J.A., B. Hecker, J.F. Grassle, B. Brown, M. Wade, P.D. Boehm, E. Baptiste,
B.Hilbig, N. Maciolek, R. Petrecca, R.E. Ruff, V.R. Starczak, and L.
Watling. Study of biology
processes on the U.S. South Atlantic Slope and Rise, Phase 2.
OCS Study, MMS- 86-0096, Final Report, Vol. 2, U.S. Department of
the Interior Minerals Management Service Washington, D.C., 1987.
Weinberg,
J.R. and V.R. Starczak. Morphological
differences and low dispersal between local populations of the tropical
beach isopod, Excirolana braziliensis.
Bull. Mar. Sci. 42: 296: 309, 1988.
Weinberg,
J.R. and V.R. Starczak. Morphological
divergence of eastern Pacific and Caribbean isopods:
Effects of a land barrier and the Panama Canal.
Mar. Biol. 103: 143: 152, 1989.
Nadeau,
L., J.A. Paige, V.R. Starczak, T. Capo, J. Lafler, and J.P. Bidwell.
Metamorphic competence of Aplysia californica.
J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 131: 171: 193, 1990.
Weinberg,
J.R., V.R. Starczak, C. Mueller, G. Pesch, and S. Lindsay. Divergence between populations of a monogamous polychaete
with male parental care: Premating
isolation and chromosome variation. Mar.
Biol. 107: 205-213, 1991.
Pawlik,
J.R., C.A. Butman, and V.R. Starczak.
Hydrodynamic facilitation of
gregarious settlement of a reef-building tube worm. Science 251: 421-424, 1991.
Weinberg,
J.R., V.R. Starczak, and J. Jorg. Evidence
for rapid speciation following a founder event in the laboratory.
Evolution 46: 1214-1220, 1992.
Bachelet,
G., C.A. Butman, C.M. Webb, V.R. Starczak, and P.V.R. Snelgrove. Non-selective
settlement of Mercenaria mercenaria (L.) larvae in short-term,
still-water laboratory experiments. J.
Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 161: 241-280, 1992.
Starczak,
V.R., C.M. Fuller, and C.A. Butman. Effects
of barite on aspects of the ecology of the polychaete Mediomastus
ambiseta. Mar. Ecol.
Prog. Ser. 85: 269-282, 1992.
Van
Dover, C.L., J.F. Grassle, B. Fry, R.H. Garritt, and V.R. Starczak.
Stable isotopic evidence for entry of sewage-derived organic
material into a deep-sea food web. Nature
360: 153-156, 1992.
Solow,
A.R. and V.R. Starczak. Statistical
analysis with an ordered categorical regressor:
The effect of rainfall on attendance Water Resources Research
29: 1561-1564, 1993.
Lessios,
H., J.R. Weinberg, and V.R. Starczak.
Temporal variation in populations of the marine isopod Excirolana:
How stable are gene frequencies and morphology? Evolution 48:
549-563, 1994.
Butman,
C.A., M. Fréchette, W.R. Geyer, and V.R. Starczak.
Flume experiments on food
supply to the blue mussel Mytilus edulis L. as a function of
the boundary layer flow. Limnol.
Oceanogr. 39: 1755-1768, 1994.
Wheatcroft,
R.A., V.R. Starczak, and C.A. Butman.
The impact of population abundance on the deposit-feeding rate of a
cosmopolitan polychaete worm. Limnol.
Oceanogr. 43:1948-1953, 1998.
Shimeta,
J., V.R. Starczak, O.M. Ashiru, C.A. Zimmer.
Influence of benthic boundary-layer flow on feeding rates of
ciliates and flagellates at the sediment-water interface. Limnol.
Oceanogr. (in press)
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