Derek K. Gray

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Curriculum Vitae

EMPLOYMENT

NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.

Postdoctoral Associate (2012-current)

Supervisor: Dr. Stephanie Hampton

EDUCATION

QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Biology (2008-2011)
Advisor: Dr. Shelley Arnott

GREAT LAKES INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Master of Science in Conservation Biology and Resource Management (2005-2007)
Advisor: Dr. Hugh MacIsaac

UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences (2000-2004)

FUNDING AWARDS

Name of Award	Value (Can$)	Type	Period Held
E.G. Bauman Fellowship	15000	Institutional	2010/09-2011/09
Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarshp	35000/year	National	2008/05-2010/05
Dean’s Travel Grant for Doctoral Research	3000	Institutional	2009
Queen’s University Graduate Award	4900	Institutional	2008/01-2008/04
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship-M	17500/year	National	2005/05-2007/03
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined)	15000/year	Provincial	2005/05-2006/05
Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (declined)	15000/year	Provincial	2005/05-2006/05
University of Windsor Tuition Scholarship	5316 (2 years)	Institutional	2005/01-2007/12
Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire Scholarship in Ecology	1000	Provincial	2004/01 – 2004/04
Andrew Douglas Bowlby Award in Biology (second time)	500	Institutional	2004/01 – 2004/04
Windsor Port Authority – Jack Atchison Award for Environmental Sciences	1000	Institutional	2003/01 – 2003/04
Andrew Douglas Bowlby Award in Biology (first time)	500	Institutional	2003/01 – 2003/04

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching assistantships:

Queen’s University, Ecology of stressed and recovering lakes (field course), 2011

Queen’s University, Biol-243, Data management and analysis, 2009, 2010, 2011

Queen’s University, Biol-103, Introduction to biology of organisms, 2008, 2009

University of Windsor, 55-140 Biological diversity, Winter 2006

University of Windsor, 55-141 Cell biology, Fall 2006

Supervision of undergraduate research:

Diana Zeng (2011). Queen’s University. Measuring outward dispersal of zooplankton from lakes using wind socks and sterile microhabitats.

Kimberley Lemmen (2010). Queen’s University. Using resurrection ecology as a tool to evaluate the recovery of acid-damaged Killarney Provincial Park lakes.

Theresa Patenaude (2008). Queen’s University. Humans as dispersal vectors for zooplankton, and possible implications for recovery from acidification, in Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.

Lectures:

Biol 410, Ecology of Lakes and Streams, Department of Biology, Queen’s University. February, 2010. Title: “Factors controlling the structure of freshwater zooplankton communities” Instructor: Shelley Arnott.

Bio307/407, Ecology of Stressed and Recovering Ecosystems. Ontario field course, Department of Biology, Queen’s University. 2009. Title: "The recovery of Killarney Park zooplankton communities from acidification" Instructor: Shelley Arnott.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

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Gray, D.K. and S.E. Arnott. 2012. The role of dispersal levels, Allee effects, and community resistance as zooplankton communities respond to environmental change. Journal of Applied Ecology 49: 1216–1224.

Gray, D.K., S.E. Arnott, J.A. Shead, and A.M. Derry. 2012. The recovery of acid-damaged zooplankton communities in Canadian Lakes: the relative importance of environmental variables, biotic variables, and dispersal. Freshwater Biology 57: 741-758.

Gray, D.K. and S.E. Arnott 2011. The interplay between environmental conditions and Allee effects during the recovery of stressed zooplankton communities. Ecological Applications 21: 2652-2663.

Gray, D.K. and S.E. Arnott. 2011. Does dispersal limitation impact the recovery of zooplankton communities damaged by a regional stressor? Ecological Applications 21: 1241-1256.
Gray, D.K. and H.J. MacIsaac. 2010. Diapausing zooplankton eggs remain viable despite exposure to open-ocean ballast water exchange: evidence from in-situ exposure experiments. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 67: 417-426.

Gray, D.K, and S.E. Arnott. 2009. Recovery of acid damaged zooplankton communities: measurement, extent, and limiting factors. Environmental Reviews 17: 81-99.

J.R. Muirhead, D.K. Gray, D.W. Kelly, S.M. Ellis, D.D. Heath and H. J. MacIsaac. 2008. Identifying the source of species invasions: sampling intensity vs. genetic diversity. Molecular Ecology 17: 1020-1035

Bailey, S.A., D.W. Kelly, D.K. Gray, N. Kanavillil, and H.J. MacIsaac. 2008. Nonindigenous species in Lake Erie: A chronicle of established and projected aquatic invaders. Pages 579-603. In: Checking the Pulse of Lake Erie. M. Munawar and R. Heath (eds.), Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society, Burlington, ON.

Gray, D.K., T.H. Johengen, D.F. Reid and H.J. MacIsaac. 2007. Efficacy of open-ocean ballast water exchange as a means of preventing invertebrate invasions between freshwater ports. Limnology and Oceanography 52: 2386-2397

Gray, D.K., I.C. Duggan, and H.J. MacIsaac. 2006. Can sodium hypochlorite reduce the risk of species introductions from diapausing invertebrate eggs in non-ballasted ships? Marine Pollution Bulletin 52: 689-695

Gray, D.K., S.A. Bailey, I.C. Duggan, and H.J. MacIsaac. 2005. Viability of invertebrate diapausing eggs exposed to saltwater: implications for Great Lakes’ ship ballast management. Biological Invasions 7: 531-539

Duggan, I.C., S.A. Bailey, R.I. Colautii, D.K. Gray, J.C. Makarewicz & H.J. MacIsaac. 2003. Biological invasions in Lake Ontario: past, present and future. Pages 541-557 in: M. Munawar (ed.) State of Lake Ontario: Past, Present and Future. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Grigorovich, I.A., A.V. Korniushin, D.K. Gray, I.C. Duggan, R.I. Colautti, and H.J. MacIsaac. 2003. Lake Superior: an invasion coldspot? Hydrobiologia 499: 191-210.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (*presenter)

Gray, D.K.*, Izmest’eva, L., and Hampton. S.E. Long-term changes in the depth distribution of Lake Baikal plankton: a consequence of warming? Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography 2013 Aquatic Sciences Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2013.

Gray, D.K.*, Linley, R.D., Yan, N.D., Keller, W., and Arnott, S.E. Using two-phased species-time relationships to separate ecological dynamics from census error in the assessment of stressed communities. 96th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Austin, Texas, August, 2011.

Gray, D.K.*, and Arnott, S.E. The interplay between local environmental conditions and Allee effects in determining the population growth and establishment of a zooplankton species impacted by a regional stressor. Canadian Council for Fisheries Research and the Society of Canadian Limnologists meeting. Toronto, Ontario, January 2011

Lemmen, K.D.*, Gray, D.K., and Arnott, S.E. Species turnover of Daphnia in lakes of central Ontario. Canadian Council for Fisheries Research and the Society of Canadian Limnologists meeting. Toronto, Ontario, January 2011 Gray, D.K.*, and Arnott, S.E. Does dispersal limitation impact the recovery of zooplankton communities damaged by a regional stressor? 95th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 2010.

Gray, D.K.*, and Arnott, S.E. Dispersal and local environmental conditions interact to determine the probability of reestablishment for zooplankton species impacted by a regional stressor. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Conference 2010. Quebec City, Quebec, May 2010.

Gray, D.K.*, and Arnott, S.E. The role of dispersal in the recovery of acid-damaged zooplankton communities: sources of colonists for recovering lakes and the relative importance of regional vs. local variables. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Conference 2009. Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 2009.

Gray, D.K., Johengen, T.H., Reid, D.F.* & MacIsaac, H.J. Biological effectiveness of open-ocean ballast exchange for preventing invertebrate invasions between freshwater ports. 15th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. September 2007

Gray, D.K., Johengen, T.H., Reid, D.F. & MacIsaac, H.J*. Can open-ocean ballast exchange prevent invasions between freshwater ports? 5th International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions. Cambridge, Massachusetts., U.S.A. May 2007

Gray, D.K.*, van Overdijk, C.D.A., Johengen, T.H., Reid, D.F. & MacIsaac, H.J. Does open-ocean ballast exchange prevent the transfer of invertebrates between freshwater ports? 14th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species. Key Biscayne, Florida, U.S.A. May 2006

Gray, D.K.*, van Overdijk, C.D.A., Johengen, T.H., Reid, D.F. & MacIsaac, H.J. Does open-ocean ballast exchange reduce the risk of future Great Lakes’ introductions from transoceanic vessels? 49th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research. Windsor, ON, Canada. May 2006

Gray, D.K.*, Bailey, S.A., Duggan, I.C. & MacIsaac, H.J. Viability of invertebrate diapausing eggs exposed to saltwater: implications for Great Lakes’ ship ballast management. 13th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species. Ennis, County Clare, Ireland. September 2004.

Gray, D.K.*, Duggan, I.C., Bailey, S.A. & MacIsaac, H.J. Can partial ballast exchange reduce the viability of resting stages in the ballast tanks of NOBOB Ships? 46th Conference on Great Lakes Research. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. June 2003.

MEDIA COVERAGE

“The lakes of Killarney show acid rain recovery.” CBC Radio Sudbury, Morning North Feature, July 2010 (8 minutes 27 seconds).

“The Great Lakes ballast water research project.” Jo Tankers Journal, Volume 75, March 2006.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Reviewer for Ecological Applications, Limnology and Oceanography, PLoS One, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Plankton Research, Journal of Great Lakes Research, and Marine Pollution Bulletin

RECENT UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Organizer, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Roundtable Seminar Series (2012, 2013). Recruited speakers, advertised talks, and set up the NCEAS lounge for seminars and discussions.

Classroom Scientist, Kids Do Ecology Outreach Program, PeaBody Charter School and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (2012). Visited a local grade 5 classroom over several weeks to introduce students to the scientific method and a career in science.

Elected student representative (Biology), Queen’s University Society for Graduate and Professional Students (2011). Tasked with representing the interests of biology graduate students in student government.

Committee member, Senate Committee for Scholarships and Student Aid, Queen’s University (2009-2010). Assisted with the evaluation of policies and procedures for scholarships and student aid aimed at graduate and undergraduate students.

Committee member, Committee for the Evaluation of Summer Work Experience Job Proposals, Queen’s University (2010). Assisted with the evaluation of proposals for positions in the student Summer Work Experience Program.

Committee member, Evaluation of upper year undergraduate scholarship applications, Queen’s University (2009). Assisted with evaluating applications for internal scholarships for upper year undergraduate students.

Program Leader, Kingston Junior Naturalists (2009-2010). Responsible for designing and implementing interactive lessons to teach students in grades 5-8 about science and nature. Group meetings occurred every two weeks throughout the school year and lasted 3 hours each.

Co-organizer, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology seminar series (2009-2010). Assisted with recruiting speakers, advertising talks, and setting up the conference room for the EEB seminar series at Queen’s.

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