Martha NizinskiNOAA, NMFS Adjunct Scientist
National Systematics Lab

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  Smithsonian Institution
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  National Museum of Natural History
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Responsibilities: Research Zoologist, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service National Systematics Laboratory

Education:


B.S.  1983.  West Virginia Wesleyan College. 

M.S.  1986.  University of Maryland, College Park. 
Thesis Title:  The ecology and social behavior of Periclimenes anthophilus, a symbiotic cleaner shrimp.

Ph.D. 1998.  The College of William and Mary, Virginia Institute of Marine Science.  Dissertation Title:  Caribbean spiny lobster and their molluscan prey: Are top-down forces key in structuring prey assemblages in a Florida Bay seagrass system?

Research Interests: Biodiversity, taxonomy, systematics, zoogeography, and ecology of decapod crustacean, particularly galatheoid crabs in the Families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae; Invertebrate fauna associated with deep-water Lophelia pertusa reefs; Biodiversity, systematics, and ecology of lobsters

Professional Activities: Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution;  member of The Crustacean Society, Biological Society of Washington, The Ecological Society of America, Phi Kappa Phi, Senate of Scientists, Smithsonian Institution

Selected Publications:

Nizinski, MS. 2007. Predation in subtropical soft-bottom systems: spiny lobster and molluscs in Florida Bay. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 345:185-197.

Brooks, R.A., M.S. Nizinski, S.W. Ross, K.J. Sulak. 2007. Frequency of sublethal injury in a deepwater ophiuroid, Ophiacantha bidentata, an important component of western Atlantic Lophelia reef communities. Mar. Biol. 152:307-314

Nizinski, M.S.  2003. Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States.  Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.  116(1):96-157.

Nizinski, M.S.  2002. Sand lances.  Family Ammodytidae. Pp. 496-505.  In: Bigelow and Schroeder’s Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. 3rd edition (B.B. Collette and G. Klein-MacPhee, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Munroe, T.A., M.S. Nizinski, and M.N. Mahadeva.  1991. Symphurus prolatinaris, a new species of shallow-water tonguefish (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae) from the eastern Pacific.  Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 104:448-458.

Nizinski, M.S., B.B. Collette, and B.B. Washington. 1990. Separation of two species of sand lances, Ammodytes americanus and A. dubius, in the western North Atlantic.  Fish. Bull., U.S. 88:241-255.

Munroe, T.A. and M.S. Nizinski. 1990. Symphurus melasmatotheca and S. undecimplerus (Cynoglossidae, Pleuronectiformes), two new eastern Pacific tonguefishes possessing 11 caudal-fin rays. Copeia 1990(4):985-996.

Nizinski, M.S. 1989. Ecological distribution, demography, and behavioral observations on Periclimenes anthophilus, an atypical symbiotic cleaner shrimp. Bull. Mar. Sci. 45(1):174-188.