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Grupe, Benjamin

Graduate Student

Degrees:

• B.A., Gettysburg College
• M.S., Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon

Research Interests:

• Community assembly, successional dynamics, and food web structure on hard substrates at deep-sea chemosynthetic habitatsin the East Pacific: cold methane seeps on the Costa Rican and Oregon continental margins; Juan de Fuca hydrothermal vents.
• How do different types of heterogeneity (geochemical, substrate, spatial), which are manifested in different scales of habitat patches, influence metacommunity dynamics at methane seeps and hydrothermal vents?
• Marine community ecology
• Deep-sea ecology
• Larval dispersal and connectivity between patchy habitats
• Rocky intertidal ecology and sea urchins
• Anthropogenic effects (including global climate change) on marine communities and ecosystems

Honors and Awards:

• Tegner Fellowship for research in coastal ecology, 2010.
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, 2008-2011.
• Best Student Paper, Honorable Mention for Ecology and Conservation (Mia Tegner Award), Western Society of Naturalists Annual Meeting, 2006.

Mentoring:

• Thompson, Milinda (Undergrad; 2011-2011)

Schroeder, S., A. Laferriere, J. Ward, M. Lojkovic, K. Davidson, A. Binter, and B.M. Grupe. 2009. Beach hopper bonanza: Inquiry-based learning while having fun! Clearing Magazine Compendium 2009: 20-22.

Commito, J. A., S. Como, B. M. Grupe, and W. E. Dow. 2008. Species diversity in the soft-bottom intertidal zone: Biogenic structure, sediment, and macrofauna across mussel bed spatial scales. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 366: 70-81.

Commito, J. A., W. E. Dow, and B. M. Grupe. 2006. Hierarchical spatial structure in soft-bottom mussel beds. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 330: 27-37.