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

Contact

Selected Publications

(of 37 total peer-reviewed publications) – see Aaron’s personal website to download full updated CV

Yoshioka, RM, et al. 2019. Eelgrass pathogen Labyrinthula zosterae synthesizes essential fatty acids. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 135:89-95 doi:10.3354/dao03382

Taipale, SJ, et al. 2019. Differing eutrophication and browning influence on Daphnia nutritional ecology. Inland Waters doi: 10.1080/20442041.2019.1574177

Dethier, MN, et al. 2019. Feces as food: the nutritional value of urchin feces and implications for benthic consumers. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 514-515:95-102 doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2019.03.016

Zuercher R, and AWE Galloway. 2019. Coastal marine ecosystem connectivity: pelagic ocean to kelp forest subsidies. Ecosphere 10(2):e02602 doi:10.1002/ecs2.2602

Hakim, JA, et al. 2019. The purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus demonstrates a compartmentalization of gut bacterial microbiota, predictive functional attributes, and taxonomic co-occurrence. Microorganisms 7(2):35 doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7020035

Sutherland, K, et al. 2018. Range expansion of tropical pyrosomes in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Ecology 99:2397-2399 doi:10.1002/ecy.2429

Hampton, SE, et al. 2018. Recent ecological change in ancient lakes. Limnology and Oceanography 63(5):2277-2304 doi: 10.1002/lno.10938

Schram, JB, et al. 2018. Trophic transfer of macroalgal fatty acids in two urchin species: digestion, egestion, and tissue building. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6:Art83 doi:10.3389/fevo.2018.00083

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 uses a combination of observational and experimental approaches to study trophic ecology of marine and aquatic habitats generally, with a particular emphasis on fatty acids as both biomarkers and as limiting nutrients for invertebrate consumers. Aaron’s research questions are currently focused on the role of seaweeds and detritus as a subsidizing energy source for subtidal food webs, the effects of coastal ocean acidification of juvenile Dungeness crabs, urchin and isopod trophic ecology, and how host/parasite relationships affect trophic relationships. This work is taking place in projects throughout the NE Pacific (Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon) and the Antarctic Peninsula.