Aaron Galloway

Education

University of Washington - Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (Ecology) - Ph.D. 2013

Central Washington University - Resource Management (Wildlife Biology) - M.S. 2004

The Evergreen State College - Environmental Science and Policy - B.A. 1999

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Selected Publications

CV (29 total peer-reviewed publications)

Winder, M, et al. 2017. The land-sea interface: a source of high-quality phytoplankton to support secondary production. Limnology and Oceanography doi:10.1002/lno.10650

Galloway, AWE and AL Shanks. 2017. Opening the black box of coastal crab life history: observation of an exceptionally high-density settlement event. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 98:236-239 doi:10.1002/bes2.1325

Galloway, AWE, et al. 2017. Massive crab recruitment events to the shallow subtidal zone. Ecology 98:1468-1470 doi:10.1002/ecy.1740

Hampton, SE, et al. 2016. Ecology under lake ice. Ecology Letters 20:98-111 doi:10.1111/ele.12699

Brett, MT, et al. 2016. Using multiple tracers and directly accounting for trophic modification improves dietary mixing model performance. Ecosphere 7(8):e01440 doi:10.1002/ecs2.1440

Taipale, S, et al. 2016. Terrestrial carbohydrates support freshwater zooplankton during phytoplankton deficiency. Scientific Reports 6:30897 doi:10.1038/srep30897

Lowe, AT, et al. 2016 Improved marine-derived POM availability and increased pH related to freshwater influence in an inland sea. Limnology and Oceanography 61:2122-2138 doi: 10.1002/lno.10357

Duggins, DO, et al. 2016. Islands in the stream: kelp detritus as faunal magnets. Marine Biology 163:art17. doi:10.​1007/​s00227-015-2781-y

Galloway, AWE, M Winder. 2015. Partitioning the relative importance of phylogeny and environmental conditions on phytoplankton fatty acids. PLoS ONE 10(6):e0130053. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130053

Galloway, AWE, et al. 2015. A fatty acid based algorithm for inferring diet in aquatic consumers. PLoS ONE 10(6):e0129723. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129723

Lowe, AT, et al. 2015. Sedentary urchins influence benthic community composition below the macroalgal zone. Marine Ecology 36:129-140 doi: 10.1111/maec.12124

Galloway, AWE, et al. 2014. Diet specific biomarkers show that high quality phytoplankton fuel herbivorous zooplankton in large boreal lakes. Freshwater Biology 59:1902-1915. doi:10.1111/fwb.12394

Galloway, AWE, et al. 2014. Quantitative estimates of isopod resource utilization using a Bayesian fatty acid mixing model. Marine Ecology Progress Series 507:219-232. doi:10.3354/meps10860

Lowe, AT, et al. 2014. Broad sampling and diverse biomarkers allow characterization of nearshore particulate organic matter. Oikos 123:1341-1354 doi:10.1111/oik.01392

Galloway, AWE, et al. 2013. Fatty acid and stable isotope biomarkers suggest microbe-induced differences in benthic food webs between depths. Limnology and Oceanography 58:1452-1462. doi:10.4319/lo.2013.58.4.1451

Dethier, MN, et al. 2013. Addressing assumptions: variation in stable isotopes and fatty acids in marine macrophytes can confound conclusions of food web studies. Marine Ecology Progress Series 478:1-14. (Feature Article). doi:10.3354/meps10310

Galloway, AWE, et al. 2012. Fatty acid signatures differentiate marine macrophytes at ordinal and family ranks. Journal of Phycology 48:956-965. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2012.01173.x

Bio

Aaron is an aquatic ecologist primarily interested in the fate and importance of different sources of primary productivity in lakes, estuaries, and the ocean. Aaron’s PhD research focused on the role of seaweeds as an energy source for deep subtidal food webs. For his postdocs, Aaron worked on quantitative modeling of lake zooplankton diet using fatty acid biomarkers (Kankaala Lab, Finland), a meta-analysis investigating environmental and phylogenetic drivers of phytoplankton lipids (Winder Lab, Sweden), and synthesis work on the under-ice ecology of lakes (Hampton Lab, Washington). Aaron uses a combination of observational and experimental approaches to study trophic interactions, with a particular emphasis on fatty acids as both biomarkers and as limiting nutrients for invertebrate consumers. Aaron’s current research areas include: post-recruitment ecology of juvenile crabs, urchin and isopod trophic ecology, host/parasite trophic relationships, the effects of coastal ocean acidification on subtidal crabs, kelp forest ecology, and macroalgae-derived energy subsidies.