Stephen D. CairnsChair & Research Zoologist

• Phone: 202-633-1765
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• E-mail: cairnss@si.edu


• Mailing Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  PO Box 37012, MRC 163
  Washington, DC 20013-7012
  


• Courier Delivery Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  National Museum of Natural History
  10th and Constitution Ave, NW
  Washington, DC 20560-0163
  

Responsibilities: Departmental Chair, Research Zoologist and Curator of Corals

Education:


Louisiana State University in New Orleans (UNO), B.S., 1971.
University of Miami (RSMAS) (Biological Oceanography), M.S., 1973.
University of Miami (RSMAS) (Biological Oceanography), PhD., 1976.

Research Interests: Taxonomy, zoogeography, functional morphology, mineralogy, and evolution of the Stylasteridae, and deep-water Scleractinia and Octocorallia.

Professional Activities: Past-president, current Secretary and Invertebrate editor of the Biological Society of Washington and Associate editor of the Atoll Research Bulletin. Tree of Life web project, Scleractinia, Octocoral research center.

Selected Publications:
Cairns, S. D. l979. The deep-water Scleractinia of the Caribbean Sea and adjacent waters. Stud. Fauna Curaçao 57(l80): 341 pp, 40 pls.,60 maps (published and augmented version Ph.D. dissertation).

Cairns, S. D. 1987. Evolutionary trends in the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). Pp. 257-274, 4 figs. In: Bouillon, J. et al. (eds.) Modern Trends in the Systematics, Ecology, and Evolu­tion of hydroids and hydromedusae. Oxford Univ. Press.

Cairns, S. D. 1989. A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent Waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae. Smith. Cont. Zool. 486: 136 pp., 42 pls., 3 figs.

Cairns, S. D. 1991. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydroida). New Zealand Ocean. Inst. Mem. 98: 179 pp., including 77 pls.

Cairns, S. D. 1994. Scleractinia of the Temperate North Pacific. Smith. Cont. Zool., 557:150 pp., 42 plates, 3 figs.

Cairns, S. D. 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). New Zealand Ocean. Inst. Mem. 103: 139 pp., 44 pls.

Cairns, S. D. 1997. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Turbinoliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smith. Cont. Zool., 591: 55 pp., including 10 pls.

Romano, S. L. & S. D. Cairns. 2000. Molecular phylogenetic hypotheses for the evolution of scleractinian corals. Bull. Mar. Sci., 67(3): 1043-1068, 2 figs.

Cairns, S. D. 2001. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smith. Cont. Zool., 180 ms pp., 14 pls., 3 figs.

Cairns, S. D. 2007. Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Gorgonacea: Ellisellidae). Part 7: The genera Riisea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 and Nicella Gray, 1870. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 120(1): 1-38, 15 figs.

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