Assistant Professor
Department of Zoology
University of British Columbia
6270 University Blvd.
Vancouver, BC  V6T 1Z4  Canada
Email:shurin@zoology.ubc.ca
 

EDUCATION
 Ph.D., Ecology, University of Chicago, 8/2000.  Advisor: Mathew Leibold.
 M.S., Zoology, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 5/96.  Advisor: Stanley Dodson.
 B.A., Biology and Chemistry, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, 5/92.
 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia.  6/2003-present.
  Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of  California- Santa Barbara.  9/2000-6/2003.
  Graduate Fellow, Dept. of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, 5/96-8/00.
  Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, General Ecology  (EE 191), 1/99-4/99.
  Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Zoology, University of Wisconsin- Madison.  Introductory Zoology (ZOO 102) 9/94-12/94 and 1/96-5/96, Introduction to Biology
        (ZOO 151) 1/95-5/95 and General   Ecology (ZOO 460) 9/95-12/95.
  Research Intern, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Eutrophication Control in Lake  Delevan Project.  5/95-9/95.
  Research Assistant for Dr. David Tilman, University of Minnesota, Cedar Creek Natural  History Area, 5/92-9/92 and 5/93-9/93.
  Independent Contractor, South Dakota Nature Conservancy, Biological Control of Leafy  Spurge (Euphorbia esula), 5/93-5/95.
 

PUBLICATIONS

  Cohen, G.M. and J.B. Shurin.  2003.  Scale-dependence and mechanisms of dispersal in freshwater zooplankton.  Oikos, in press.   PDF

  Havel, J.E., and J.B. Shurin.  2003.  Mechanisms, effects and scales of dispersal in freshwater  zooplankton.  Limnology and Oceanography, in press.

  Shurin, J.B. and J.E. Havel.  2002.  Hydrologic connections and overland dispersal in an exotic freshwater crustacean.  Biological Invasions 4: 431-439.   PDF

  Havel, J.E., J.B. Shurin and J.R. Jones.  2002.  Estimating dispersal from patterns of spread:  Spatial and local control of lake invasions.  Ecology  83: 3306-3318.
              PDF

  Shurin, J.B., E.T. Borer, E.W. Seabloom, K. Anderson, C.A. Blanchette, B.R. Broitman, S.D. Cooper, and B. Halpern.  2002.  A cross-ecosystem comparison of the
                strength of trophic cascades.  Ecology Letters 5: 785-791.  *Highlighted in Science’s Editor’s Choice (Science 298: 1517).  PDF

  Borer, E.T., K.A. Anderson, C.A. Blanchette, B.R. Broitman, S.D. Cooper, B. Halpern, E.W. Seabloom, and J.B. Shurin.  2002.  Topological approaches to food web
                analyses: a few modifications may improve our insights. Oikos 99: 397-401.   PDF

  Shurin, J.B and E.G. Allen.  2001.  Effects of competition, predation, dispersal on local and  regional species richness. American Naturalist 158: 624-637. PDF

  Shurin, J.B.  2001.  Interactive effects of predation and dispersal on zooplankton communities. Ecology 82: 3404-3416.  PDF

  Shurin, J.B., S.E. Gergel, D.M. Kaufman, D.M. Post, E.W. Seabloom, and J. Williams.  2001.   Letter: In defense of ecology.  The Scientist 15: 6. PDF

  Shurin, J.B.  2000.  Dispersal limitation, invasion resistance, and the structure of pond zooplankton communities. Ecology  81: 3074-3086.
                *Winner of 2002 Thomas M. Frost Award for Excellence in Graduate Research, Ecological Society of America Aquatic Section.  PDF

  Shurin, J.B., J.E. Havel, M.A. Leibold and B. Pinel-Alloul. 2000.  Local and regional  zooplankton species richness: A scale-independent test for saturation.
              Ecology  81: 3062- 3073.   PDF

  Chase, J.M., M.A. Leibold, A.L. Downing, and J.B. Shurin. 2000.  The effects of productivity,  herbivory, and plant species turnover in grassland food webs.
              Ecology  81: 2485-2497.   Abstract

  Leibold, M.A., J.M. Chase, J.B. Shurin and A.L. Downing.  1997.  Species turnover and the  regulation of trophic structure.  Annual Review of Ecology and
                Systematics  28: 467-494.   Abstract

  Shurin, J.B. and S.I. Dodson.  1997.  Effects of cyanobacteria and nonylphenol on environmental  sex determination and development in Daphnia.
              Environmental Toxicology and  Chemistry  16(6): 1269-1276. Abstract
 

PUBLICATIONS IN REVIEW

Shurin, J.B., P. Amarasekare, J.M. Chase, R.D. Holt and M.A. Leibold.  Alternative stable states and regional community structure.  Ecology Letters.

Shurin, J.B. and D.S. Srivastava.  New perspectives on local and regional diversity: beyond saturation.
                Book chapter in Metacommunities (ed. M. Holyoak, R. Holt and M. Leibold).

Havel, J.E., J.B. Shurin and J.R. Jones.  Biotic and abiotic constraints on spread of the exotic cladoceran Daphnia lumholtzi (Sars).  Journal of Plankton Research.

Chase, J.M., M.A. Leibold and J.B. Shurin.  Mechanistic explanations for alternative stable equilibria in models of intermediate complexity.  Oikos.
 

PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION

Shurin, J.B. and E.W. Seabloom.  The strength of trophic cascades across ecosystems:  Predictions from allometry and energetics.

Shurin, J.B, R.M. Nisbet, S.R. Hall and S. Diehl.  Plant-herbivore stoichiometry and the strength  of trophic interactions.
 

PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTIONS, GRANTS AND AWARDS

Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Facility for Biodiversity Dynamics Research.  2003, with D.S. Srivastava, $159,923 (Canadian).
NSERC Research Grant Award, The sum of its parts: population, community and ecosystem stability through succession.  $120,000 (Canadian).
Thomas M. Frost Award for Excellence in Graduate Research, Ecological Society of America  Aquatic Section, 8/2002.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.  5/2000.
Organizing Member, Metacommunity Working Group, National Center for Ecological Analysis  and Synthesis.
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, DEB 99-72656.  Local vs. regional control of zooplankton community structure.
                Awarded 3/99.  $9250.
Grant in Area of National Need Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 5/96-8/2000.
U.S. Patent No. 5,932,436: “The Daphnia reproductive bioassay.” With Stanley I. Dodson and  Kristin M. Girvin, awarded 8/3/99.
Hinds Fund grant. $1100. Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, 1997.
The Davis Fund research grant.  $500.  Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, 1995.
The O.T. Walters Award for outstanding senior Biology major, Macalester College, 1992.
 

STUDENTS ADVISED

Karl Cottenie, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium. Ph.D. committee, graduated 6/02.
Galeet Cohen, University of Chicago. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, graduated 5/01.
Andrew Forbes, University of Pittsburgh. Undergraduate Honors Thesis committee, graduated 3/01.
 

MEETING PRESENTATIONS

Shurin, J.B. and E.W. Seabloom.  Ecological Society of America (ESA), Tucson, AZ, 8/8/02.
Shurin, J.B. and E.G. Allen.  ESA, Madison, WI, 8/9/01.
Havel, J.E., J.B. Shurin, and J.R. Jones.  ESA, Madison, WI, 8/6/01.
Havel, J.E., J.B. Shurin, and J.R. Jones.  American Society for Limnology and Oceanography  (ASLO), Albuquerque, NM, 2/16/01.
Shurin, J.B. ESA, Snowbird, UT, 8/8/00.
Cohen, G.M., J.B. Shurin, and M.A. Leibold.  ESA, Snowbird, UT, 8/8/00.
Shurin, J.B., J.E. Havel, M.A. Leibold, and B. Pinel-Alloul.  ESA, Spokane, WA, 8/8/99.
Shurin, J.B.  Society of International Limnologists meeting, Dublin, Ireland, 8/17/98.  Invited  Symposium on Environmental Heterogeneity in Limnology.
Shurin, J.B. and M.A. Leibold.  ESA, Albuquerque, NM, 8/14/97.
Shurin, J.B. and S.I. Dodson.  ASLO, Milwaukee, WI, 6/17/96.
 

INVITED SEMINARS

Uppsala University, Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala, Sweden, 3/20/03 and 3/21/03.
Umea University, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Sweden, 3/26/03.
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Department of Biology, Munich, Germany, 6/12/02.
Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, 6/6/02.
University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology, 12/6/01.
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Ecology and Evolution, 11/12/01.
McGill University, Department of Biology, 11/5/01.
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 9/27/01.
Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, 3/30/01.
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biology, 3/21/01.
Florida State University, Department of Biology, 3/1/01.
Southwest Missouri State University, Department of Biology, 11/10/00.
University of California- Santa Barbara, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology,  10/30/00.
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 9/28/00.
University of Virginia, Mountain Lake Biological Station, 7/11/00.
University of Illinois- Springfield, Department of Biology, 5/4/00.
University of Chicago, Department of Ecology and Evolution, 4/25/00
University of Montreal, Department of Biology, 11/8/99.
Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Milbrook, NY, 11/3/99.
Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 11/2/99.
Southwest Missouri State University, Department of Biology, 3/23/99.
 

PEER REVIEWER

Journals: American Naturalist, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Ecosystems, Hydrobiologia, Journal of Animal Ecology, Limnology and Oceanography, Oikos, Risk Analysis.

National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology grant proposals.