Curriculum Vitae

Sean R. Avent

Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Science

3152 Paradise Dr.

Tiburon, CA 94920

Phone (415) 338-3547

Fax (415) 435-7120

Mobile (415) 819-2072

E-mail: avent@sfsu.edu

Education	1999-2003 (Expected) San Francisco State Univ. San Francisco, CA M.A. in Biology with Marine Emphasis § GPA: 3.62 § Coursework: Plankton Ecology, Biology of the Fishes, Fisheries Biology, Community Ecology, Advanced Biometry, Marine Symbioses, Science and Policy of San Francisco Bay. § Thesis: Vertical migration of and fish predation upon two invasive copepods, Pseudodiaptomus inopinus and Pseudodiaptomus marinus on the west coast of North America. 1992-96 University of Washington Seattle, WA B.S. in Oceanography (Biological Emphasis) § GPA within Concentration: 3.3 § Coursework: Biological Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, Chemical Oceanography, Marine Geology and Processes, Ecology, Marine Biology, Phycology, Invertebrate Zoology, Vertebrate Zoology, Biostatistics, Biology, Calculus, Inorganic Chemistry. § Independent Research Project: The effects of wounding on the polyphenolic compounds in the kelp, Laminaria Complanata." § Independent Research Project: Phytoplankton size distributions in Puget Sound, WA.
Professional experience Professional Experience (cont.)	1996-current San Francisco State Univ San Francisco, CA Research Technician II at the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies. Chief technician for multiple oceanic and estuarine fish and zooplankton research projects. 2000-current Romberg Tiburon Center, SFSU Tiburon, CA Caretaker on site. Provided security and emergency relief for the remote field campus on a daily basis. 1999-current Self Employ Tiburon, CA Zooplankton consultant providing zooplankton sample analyses for various clients with environmental projects including the National Park Service, Tomales Bay, CA, Sonoma County Water District, Sonoma, CA, Hydroikos Associates, San Rafael, CA, and US National Park Service, Tomales Bay, CA. 2002 California State University, Stanislaus Lone Pine, CA Field technician for the Endangered Species Research Program, performing trap, mark and release studies on small mammals including the endangered Mojave ground squirrel. 1995 Univ. Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories Friday Harbor, WA Research assistant for Dr. Peter Jumars. Performed multiple experiments in the ground truthing of low-angle acoustic backscatter as an indicator of benthic biological activity. Used SCUBA to perform experiements in West Sound, Orcas Island, WA, USA. 1995 Univ. Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories Friday Harbor, WA Research assistant for Dr. Todd Anderson. Conducted rockfish (Sebastes spp.) recruitment surveys using SCUBA in natural and artificial kelp environments as well as preparing and placing artificial substrates. 1995 Univ. Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories Friday Harbor, WA Research assistant for Dr. David Duggins. Inspected, cleaned and sampled experimental kelp growth sites and provided assistance as necessary using SCUBA. This project was designed to study long-term kelp growth in a variety of current conditions. 1994 Univ. Washington Fisheries Research Inst. Seattle, WA Research assistant for Dr. Deanna Stouder and Jeff Cordell. As part of the Wetlands Ecosystem Team, Department of Fisheries, University of Washington, studied the abundance of foods in mudflats for juvenile salmonids in Spartina spp. patches in Willapa Bay, WA. Manufactured, deployed, and recovered estuarine fish traps to assess the population of small estuarine fishes.
Presentations	Visintainer, T., S. Bollens, C. Simenstad, S. Avent, and A. Federline Dean. 2003. The effect of channel order on fish abundance, community composition, and diet in a tidal marsh (China Camp, San Francisco Bay). Second Biennial CALFED Science Conference, Sacramento, CA. Bollens, S.M., A.M. Slaughter, S.R. Avent, J.G. Dorman, K.M. Papastephanou and G. Rollwagen Bollens. 2003. Zooplankton Responses to Variable Wind-Driven Cross-Shelf Transport off Northern California: Results from CoOP/WEST. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT, 2003. Avent, S.R. and R. Hooff. 2002. Invasive Zooplankton in the San Francisco Estuary. Special Lecture Series, Exotic Species in the Bay, Bay Model, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sausalito, CA. Avent, S.R., S M Bollens, N Garfield. 2002. Distribution and Size Structure of Zooplankton off Northern California as Determined by Optical Plankton Counter: Results From CoOP/WEST. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI., 2002. Bollens, S.M., A. Slaughter, S. Avent, J. Dorman, E. Dever, J. Largier, J. Cordell and O. Kalata 2002. Cross-Shelf Distribution and Diel Vertical Migration of Mesozooplankton off Northern California: Results from CoOP/WEST. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI., 2002. Avent, S.R., S.M. Bollens, and J.R. Cordell. 2000. The ecology of two invasive copepods, Psuedodiaptomus inopinus and Psuedodiaptomus marinus to North American Pacific coast estuaries." American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting, January 2000, San Antonio, TX. Avent, S.R., S.M. Bollens, and S. Troia. 1998. Diel vertical migration in zooplankton: Experimental investigations using video-microscopy and plankton mini-towers. 1998 Western Society of Naturalists Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA. Speekman, C., S.M. Bollens, and S.R. Avent. 1999. The effects of ultraviolet radiation on mortality and vertical migration of zooplankton from San Francisco Bay. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, Feb., 1999
Publications	Bollens, S.M., J.R. Cordell, S. Avent, and R. Hooff. 2002. Zooplankton Invasions: a brief review, plus two case studies from the northeast Pacific Ocean. Hydrobiologia 480:87-110. Lougee, L.A., S.M. Bollens, and S.R. Avent. 2002. The effects of haloclines on the vertical distribution and migration of zooplankton. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 278:111-134. Avent, S.R., S.M. Bollens, M. Butler, E. Horgan, R. Rountree. 2000. Planktonic hydroids on Georges Bank: Ingestion and selection by predatory fishes. Deep Sea Research II 48:673-684. Avent, S.R., S.M. Bollens, W. Kimmerer, and J. Cordell. 2000. Copepods invade the San Francisco Estuary. Ballast Exchange Newsletter, California Sea Grant 2:4-5. Speekman, C.L., S.M. Bollens, and S.R. Avent. 2000. The effect of ultraviolet radiation on the vertical distribution and mortality of estuarine zooplankton. Journal of Plankton Research 22:2325-2350. Kimmerer, W., C. Peñalva, S. Bollens, S. Avent, and J. Cordell. 1999. Zooplankton in the lower San Francisco Estuary. Interagency Ecological Program Newsletter. 12(2):16-22. Avent, S.R. 1996. The distribution of Eurytemora americana (Crustacea, Copepoda) in a temperate, tidally-influenced estuary. Senior research thesis, Univ. Washington.
Lectures	Zooplankton ecology and methods for K-12 teachers. 2003. Coastal Ecology Teachers' Workshop, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University. Oceanographic methods: Zooplankton sampling. Class lecture for Biology 392 and 393, Oceanography and Laboratory. San Francisco University
Other Experience	President, Romberg Tiburon Center Student Association. August 2000 – August 2001