Jennifer Dreyer

Scientist I

Email: [[jcdrey]]
Phone: (804) 684-7903 office (804) 684-7445, 7022 lab
Office: CBH N-208
Department: Biological Sciences
Website: {{http://www.vims.edu/~jcdrey/Linnaeuslocus/}}

Education

• M.S.  The College of William and Mary, 2004 
• B.S.   University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1998   

Research interests

I am currently a marine scientist working on phytoplankton samples from the Ross Sea, Antarctica.  After completing the IVARS (Interannual Variability in the Ross Sea) project in 2005, I began working on the CORSACS (Controls on Ross Sea Algal Community Structure) project. Both projects aim to quantify the variability of phytoplankton species and biogeochemical processes that control phytoplankton assemblages on a year-to-year basis.  My duties include managing the Phytoplankton Ecology lab, administrative functions, ordering supplies, cruise logistics, and sample shipment.  Analytically, I process particulate carbon and nitrogen, chlorophyll a, biogenic silica, particulate organic phosphorus, and sediment trap samples, as well as count and identify phytoplankton species with epifluorescence microscopy.

Other active research interests include: polychaete taxonomy, systematics, reproductive biology and ecology; hydrothermal vent ecology, deep sea biology, and environmental impacts on benthic communities.

Research Experience

• May 2004 - Present  Marine Scientist I, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

• Jan. 2003 - May 2004 Teaching Assistant, The College of William & Mary

• Aug. 2002 - Dec. 2002 Research Assistant, The College of William & Mary

• Oct. 1999 - June 2002 Research Associate I, University of Hawaii at Manoa

• Mar. 1999 - June 1999  Lab Technician, University of Alaska Fairbanks

• Dec. 1998 - Mar. 1999 Groundfish Observer Saltwater Inc., / National Marine Fisheries Service

• Sept. 1998 - Dec. 1998  Student Assistant II, University of Alaska Fairbanks

• June 1998 - Aug. 1998  Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Intern, Darling Marine Center,University of Maine

• Oct. 1997 - May 1998  Research Assistant,  University of Alaska Fairbanks

Field Experience

• Jan. 31 - Feb. 4, 2006 R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, Ross Sea, Antarctica (IVARS)

• Dec.13, 2005 - Jan. 30, 2006 R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, Ross Sea, Antarctica (CORSACS)

• Feb. 26-March 3, 2005 R/V Western Flyer using ROV Tiburon, Southern CA. Whale Falls and Wood Falls

• Jan. 25-Feb. 16, 2005 R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, Ross Sea, Antarctica (IVARS)

• Dec.10 - 28, 2004 USCGC Polar Star, Ross Sea, Antarctica (IVARS)

• Feb.1- 9, 2004 USCGC Polar Star, Ross Sea, Antarctica (IVARS)

• July 22 - Aug. 3, 2003 R/V Atlantis using DSV Alvin Blake Ridge Cold Seep off the coast of SC

• May 12 - 24, 2003 R/V Delaware II, Bear Seamount off Georges Banks

• Dec. 9, 2001- Jan.1, 2002 R/V Atlantis using the DSV Alvin  Eastern Pacific Rise (9N) Hydrothermal Vents

• Aug. 25–31, 1998 R/V Edwin Link using the RS Clelia, Gulf of Maine

Awards

• April 2006 National Science Foundation U.S. Antarctic Service Medal

• July 2003 American Museum of Natural History Lerner Gray Memorial Fund

• June 2003 W&M Student Activities Conference Fund Award

• April 2003 W&M Graduate Student Association Conference Fund Award

• Feb. 2003 W&M Carol Woody Internship Award

• Jan. 2003 - May 2004 W&M Teaching Assistantship

• Aug.- Dec. 2002 W&M Research Assistantship

• Oct. 2002 W&M Minor Research Grant award

• Mar. 1998 UAF Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Grant

Membership in ProfessionalSocieties

• Member of the Biological Society of Washington

Publications

• Peloquin, J.A., Shields, A.R.,  Dreyer, J. Smith, Jr., W.O. The association of microzooplankton with colonial Phaeocystis antarctica in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.  In prep. for Marine Biology.

• Saba, G., Shields, A.R., Dreyer, J., Smith, Jr., W.O., & Steinberg, D.  A modified dilution technique to determine microzooplankton composition, grazing, and nutrient regeneration in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.  In prep. for Antarctic Science.

• Shields, A.R., Smith, Jr., W.O., Dreyer, J., Peloquin, J.A., Tozzi, S., & Asper, V.A.  Interannual variability in vertical flux in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.  In prep. for Antarctic Science.

• Mroz, R.J., Dreyer, J. Van Dover, C.L. Internal anatomy and reproductive biology of Vesicomyicola trifurcatus (Polychaeta: Nautiliniellidae) from Blake Ridge cold seep. In Prep.

• Salazar-Vallejo, S.I., Imajima, M., Bailey-Brock, J.H., & Dreyer, J.  (2007). Revision of Pseudexogone Augener, 1922 (Polychaeta: Syllidae) and its transfer to Pilargidae.  In Press in Zoosystema.

• Dreyer, J., Knick, K.E., Flickinger, W.B. & Van Dover, C.L. (2005). Development of macrofaunal community structure in mussel beds on the northern East Pacific Rise. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 302: 121-134.

• Erseus, C., Giere, O., Dreyer, J., Bailey-Brock, J.H. (2005). A new species of Tubificoides (Oligochaeta) from Sand Island, Oahu, Hawaii. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 118 (2): 264-269.

• Dreyer, J., Bailey-Brock, J., & McCarthy, S. (2005). Effects of Hurricane Iniki on intertidal faunal on the South Shore of Oahu. Marine Environmental Research, 59: 367-380.

• Dreyer, J., Miura, T. & Van Dover, C.L. (2004). Vesicomyicola trifurcatus, a New Species of Commensal Polychaete found in Deep-sea Clams collected from the Blake Ridge Cold Seep. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 117 (1): 106-113.

• Bailey-Brock, J.H., Dreyer, J. & Brock, R.E. (2003). Three new species of Saccocirrus (Saccocirridae Czerniavsky, 1881,Polychaeta), from Hawaii’i. Pacific Science, 57 (4): 463-478.

• Turnipseed, M., Knick, K.E., Lipcius, R.N., Dreyer, J. & C.L. Van Dover. (2003). Diversity in mussel beds at hydrothermal and cold seeps. Ecology Letters 6: 1-6.

• Bailey-Brock, J.H., Paavo, B., Barrett, B.M., & Dreyer, J. (2002). Polychaete species as organic enrichment indicators from Oahu, Hawaii'i. Pacific Science 156 (4): 459-479.

• Bailey-Brock, J.H., Paavo, B., Barrett, B.M. & Dreyer, J. (2001) Changes in Pollution Indicators at the Sand Island Sewage Outfall. Proceedings of the Ocean’s Conference 2001 MTS/IEEE. Volume 3. ISBN# 0-933957-28-9.

• Gerken, S., & Gross, J. (2000). Gynodiastylis laciniacristatus, a new species (Crustacea: Cumacea) from Australia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113 (1), 95-103.

• Van Dover, CL., Trask, J., Gross, J., & Knowlton, A. (1999). Reproductive biology of free-living and commensal polychaetes at the Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent field (Mid-Atlantic Ridge). Marine Ecology Progress Series 181, 201-214.

• Illustrations by Dreyer, J. in Gutierrez-Antrim, L. 2005. To Shell or Not to Shell: an Introduction to Shell Forming Invertebrates. How to Collect Shells. Charles Sturm, Ed. Museum of Pittsburgh. In Press.

Other Research Contributions

• Contributor to: A species list of the polychaetes and invertebrates found in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii in 1999. Identified a large majority of these polychaetes believed to be introduced species from shipping or military vessels docking at the harbor.

• Contributor to: Benthic Sampling in the Vicinity of Sewage Outfalls off Tanguisson and Agana, Guam, Mariana Islands WRRC Report 2001. Compiled a species list of polychaetes and invertebrates, taxonomic illustrations, and report for two proposed sewage outfalls in Guam.

• Contributor to: The Impacts of Polydactylus Sexfilis Mariculture on the Benthos

  • Report Number one of three HOARP Phase III. Feb 2002

  • Report Number two of three HOARP Phase III. April 22, 2002

  • Report Number three of three HOARP Phase III. June 2002

• Contributor to: A species list and taxonomic illustrations of the polychaetes and invertebrates for the regional EMAP project funded by the EPA. Samples were taken from 5 Hawaiian Islands.

Presentations

• June 4-9, 2006  S. Tozzi, J. Peloquin, J. Dreyer  Development of new flowcam flow cytometer protocol for processing samples with a wide range of different sized phytoplankton from the Ross Sea, Antarctica.  Poster presentation at the ASLO Summer Meeting: Global Challenges Facing Oceanography and Limnology, Victoria, B.C., Canada.

• February 20-24, 2006  A.R. Shields, G.K. Henderson, J. Dreyer, W.O. Smith, Jr. and D.K. Steinberg.  A Modified Dilution Technique to Determine Microzooplankton Composition, Grazing, and Nutrient Regeneration in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Poster presentation at the 13th Ocean Sciences Meeting, (ASLO/ERF/TOS/AGU joint meeting) Honolulu, Hawaii.

• October 10-14, 2005 J. Peloquin, A. Shields, J. Dreyer and W.O. Smith The association of microzooplankton with colonial Phaeocystis antarctica in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Poster presentation at the 3rd International Conference on the Oceanography of the Ross Sea Antarctica, Venice, Italy.

• August 20-28, 2004 C.L.Van Dover and J. Dreyer Temporal change in mussel bed communities at deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise. 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy.
• July 5-9, 2004 J. Dreyer and C.L. Van Dover A new genus and species of Nautiliniellidae found in deep-sea clams at the Blake Ridge cold seep. Poster presentation at the 8th International Polychaete Conference, Madrid, Spain.
• July 5-9, 2004 R.J. Mroz, J. Dreyer and C.L. Van Dover A histological investigation into the internal anatomy of a new species of commensal polychaete from the family Nautiliniellidae at the Blake Ridge methane hydrate. Poster presentation at at the 8th International Polychaete Conference, Madrid, Spain.
• July 5-9, 2004 S.I. Salazar-Vallejo, I. Minora, J.H. Bailey-Brock, J. Dreyer Review of Psuedoexogone Augener, 1922 (Polychaeta: Syllidae) and its reassignment to Pilargidae. Poster presentation at the 8th International Polychaete Conference, Madrid, Spain.
• February 13, 2004 J. Dreyer and C.L. Van Dover Time-series comparisons of hydrothermal-vent mussel bed communities on the East Pacific Rise between 1999 and 2001. Poster presentation at the 3rd Annual Graduate Research Symposium at the College of William and Mary, VA.
• August 25-30, 2003 J. Dreyer and C.L. Van Dover Community Structure of Hydrothermal- vent mussel beds on the East Pacific Rise between 1999 and 2001. Oral presentation at the 10th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Coos Bay, OR
• March 28-30, 2003 J. Dreyer and C.L. Van Dover Time-series comparisons of hydrothermal-vent mussel bed communities on the East Pacific Rise between 1999 and 2001. Poster presentation at the 32nd Marine Benthic Ecology Meeting in Groton, CT.

Invited Speaker

• December 8, 2006:  J. Dreyer.  Life at the Bottom of the Ocean:  Hydrothermal Vents. Invited guest lecturer for Biology 108N course at Old  Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.

• Feb 16-17, 2006: J.Dreyer.  General presentations on Antarctica and Hydrothermal vents.  Invited speaker for Menchville High School 9th grade Earth Science classes. Gave presentations in 2 honors classes and 4 average classes over a two-day period.

• April 30, 2004 J. Dreyer and C.L. Van Dover Dynamics at Hydrothermal Vents: Evidence for Stable Macrofaunal Communities in Mussel Beds on the Northern East Pacific Rise. Invited departmental seminar at the University of South Carolina Spartanburg, Spartanburg, SC.

• March 7-9, 2004 J. Dreyer and C.L. Van Dover. Temporal variation in mussel bed communities on the East Pacific Rise between 1999 and 2001. Oral presentation at the Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, England as part of a three-day workshop on chemosynthetic ecosystems and reproduction.

• May 29, 2003 J. Dreyer and C.L. Van Dover Age-Community Structure Relationships of Hydrothermal Vent Mussel Beds on the East Pacific Rise between 1999 and 2001. Oral presentation for NSF Chautauqua Course: Biology in the Extreme: Life in Deep-Sea Chemosynthetic Ecosystems.

Teaching

• Biology 200- Laboratory, The College of William & Mary

• Biology 316- Invertebrate Biology Laboratory, The College of William & Mary

• Biology 200- Laboratory, The College of William & Mary

Certifications

• Open Water SCUBA certification, June 1999, Fairbanks, AK

• Advanced Open Water SCUBA certification, October 1999, Oahu, HI

Specialized Course-Work and Hobbies

• Cladistics and Polychaetes III course as part of the 8th International Polychaete Conference in Madrid, Spain (July 2004).

• Biological Microscopy – completed a graduate course on Scanning Electron Microscopy and Transmission Microscopy at the College of William & Mary. Developing and printing micrographs was a large component, along with tissue preparation.

• Scuba Diving and Snorkeling - have been able to dive and snorkel in diverse locations such as Alaska, Hawaii, Tahiti, and Mexico. Have 27 logged dives with about 16 hours underwater.

Sailing and Boating

• Currently crewing on the Avalon II, a 1968 Islander 34 sailboat with an all woman crew racing out of the York River Yacht Club on the York River, Virginia.

• Extensive experience working on commercial fishing vessels during the winter of 1998-1999 in the Gulf of Alaska.

• Crewed on the Beausoliel, a Beneteau 45 sailboat that raced out of Portland, Maine during the summer of 1998.