Timothy M. Shank's
Cirriculum Vitae
Professional Preparation
Goethe Institute of Boppard, West Germany German GLS 1985
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Biology (German language minor) B.A. 1988
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Marine Ecology and Evolution Ph.D. 1998
Appointments
Aug. 2001- Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
1999-2001 Postdoctoral Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
1998-1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
1992-1998 Graduate/Research Assistant, Dept. of Ecology and Evolution, Rutgers University
1991-1992 Senior Scientist, Environmental Health Research and Testing, Inc., North Carolina
Education and Outreach
- 2003 Co-editor, childrens book: “Journey to Undersea Gardens”,
- Celebration Press; popular description of scientific results from the recent Galápagos Rift 2002 expedition (T. Shank
and S. Hammond, co-chief scientists).
- 2003 Coordinator, GCG Genetic Analysis Workshop (with Steve Thompson, Florida State Univ.)
- 2003- Research featured in numerous outlets: Science (e.g., 296:1965); Discover magazine (Sept 2002), National Public Radio’s weekend edition (6/1/02); National Geographic Magazine( 2000; 2003), and Harvard Magazine.
- 2003- NOAA, NSF, and WHOI web portals with daily cruise/research updates; and featured in several television programs for the Discovery Channel, BBC, Korean Broadcasting Ocean Series, National Geographic and USA network.
- 2002 Consultant, American Museum of Natural History’s Deep-Sea Exhibit.
- 2002 Co-developer, science education curriculum (compact disc) on the first 25 years of deep-sea hydrothermal vent research.
- 2001 Developer, web biological database for the Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent region
- 2000 Convenor of the RIDGE 2000; Exploratory Studies Workshop, Nashville, TN.
- 2000 Session Chair, Deep Submergence Science for the Next Decade Conference, Washington, DC.
- 1999- Ad hoc reviewer for Marine Biology, Marine Ecological Progress Series, Limnology and Oceanography, Bioloigcal Bulletin, and Molecular Biology and Evolution.
- 1999- Consultant, the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) and the Simex Corporation, the BBH’s Extreme Deep Museum Exhibit.
Committees (Current)
2003- Member, Marine Operations Committee, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2003- Member, Steering Committee, Census of Marine Life, Seamount Ecosystems (International)
2003- Member, Committee on Family Life, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2002 Member, UNOLS, Deep Submergence Science Committee (Ex-officio, 2004-)
2002- Member, Steering Committee, Census of Marine Life, Chemosynthetic Ecosystems (International)
2002- Member, Steering Committee, InterRidge Hydrothermal Vent Biology (International)
2002- Member, Ad hoc Steering Committee for the Arctic Technology Workshop, Monterey, CA.
2001- Member, United States Deep Submergence Science Committee (UNOLS)
2001- Member, Committee for the Marine Biological Laboratory Workshop on Molecular Evolution
1999- Member, NorthEast Time-Integrated Undersea Networked Experiments (NEPTUNE), Deep-Sea
Ecology and Ridge Crest Committees
Society Memberships and Short Courses:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Geophysical Union
Genotoxicity and Environmental Mutagen Society
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
The Crustacean Society
Society of Systematic Biology
RIDGE Theoretical Institute Short Course (1993), Big Sky, Montana
Co-founder/convenor (1994) Annual Rutgers-Princeton
Ecology and Evolution Symposium
Workshop on Molecular Evolution (1995) MBL Woods Hole, MA, Group Leader
RIDGE Theoretical Institute, The Subsurface Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges (2000), Big Sky, Montana
Invited Talks
Tufts University Biology Department (February)
Darwin Station, Puerto Ayora, Isla Santa Cruz, Galápagos Islands (June)
Deep-Sea Coral Meeting, Miami (November)
2004
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, NOAA Ocean Explorers Award (February)
University of Rhode Island Biology Department (November)
2003
Census of Marine Life for Chemosynthetic Communities Workshop (January)
Smithsonian Institution Lecture Series (February)
Southampton Oceanography Centre (March)
Annual seminar to Ocean Science Writing Fellowship Program (April)
National Academy of Sciences, Future of US Deep-Submergence Committee (June)
Census of Marine Life for Seamounts (August)
New England Molecular Evolutionary Biologists Meeting (November)
2002
Darwin Station, Puerto Ayora, Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands (June)
Testimony to US House and Senate Marine Committees (July)
Workshop to Promote the Development of
Instrumentation for Arctic Ocean Exploration (October) Deep Submergence Science Committee (December)
2001
Dahlem Conference (Energy and Mass Transfer in Marine Hydrothermal Systems) Germany (October)
Second International Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Symposium, Brest, France (October)
Boston University Marine Program (March)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (January)
2000
RIDGE 2000 Exploratory Studies Workshop, Nashville, TN (April)
Ocean Science Writing Fellowship Program, Woods Hole, MA (July)
NIEHS Microarray Center, Research Triangle Park, NC (September)
RIDGE 2000 Integrated Studies Workshop, Dekalb, IL (October)
Graduate College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE (November)
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