Nicole PittoorsLehigh University · Department of Biological Sciences
Nicole Pittoors
Bachelor of Science
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Introduction
Ph.D. Candidate and NSF-GRFP fellow in the Herrera Lab at Lehigh University studying dispersal, recruitment, and reproduction within hydrothermal vents and mesophotic coral reefs.
Skills and Expertise
Additional affiliations
June 2017 - August 2017
Position
- Guest Student
Description
- Assisted a post-doctoral scholar, Dr. Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser, in researching the role of temperature on the mechanisms of succession in subtidal fouling communities. I also assisted an REU student in researching oyster larvae behavior.
January 2017 - March 2017
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- I was responsible for creating step-by-step guides on using R studio, demonstrating data formatting and interpretation of results for and advanced applied statics course for math majors.
October 2018 - October 2021
Position
- Laboratory Assistant
Description
- Assisted the development/implementation of a Modular Automated Platform for Large-scale Experiments (MAPLE) robot for animal- handling and phenotyping.
Education
August 2013 - August 2017
Publications
Publications (9)
Individuals, even with matched genetics and environment, show substantial phenotypic variability. This variability may be part of a bet-hedging strategy, where populations express a range of phenotypes to ensure survival in unpredictable environments. In addition phenotypic variability between individuals (“bet-hedging”), individuals also show vari...
Individuals, even with matched genetics and environment, show substantial phenotypic variability. This variability may be part of a bet-hedging strategy, where populations express a range of phenotypes to ensure survival in unpredictable environments. In addition phenotypic variability between individuals (“bet-hedging”), individuals also show vari...
The distributions of anthozoan corals are undercharacterized due to their wide bathymetric ranges, occurrences in remote locales, and difficulties of identification from morphology alone. Environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing promises to be a noninvasive strategy to complement conventional approaches for mapping and monitoring the distribution and bi...
Individuals, even with matched genetics and environment, show substantial phenotypic variability. This variability may be part of a bet-hedging strategy, where populations express a range of phenotypes to ensure survival in unpredictable environments. In addition phenotypic variability between individuals (“bet-hedging”), individuals also show vari...
The distributions of anthozoan corals are under-characterized due to their wide bathymetric range, occurrences in remote locales, and difficulties of identification from morphology alone. Environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing promises to be a non-invasive strategy to complement conventional approaches for mapping and monitoring coral communities. Pri...
Volcanic eruptions provide rare opportunities to witness the biological recolonization of areas covered by new lava flows by effectively resetting the ecological succession clock to zero. The role of submarine volcanic eruptions as disturbance events and the resulting patterns of ecological succession have mainly been studied in hydrothermal vent e...
Comprehensive knowledge of the distribution of active hydrothermal vent fields along midocean ridges is essential to understanding global chemical and heat fluxes and endemic faunal distributions. However, current knowledge is biased by a historical preference for on-axis surveys. A scarcity of high-resolution bathymetric surveys in off-axis region...
Helical swimming is a common behavior in larvae of many marine invertebrate species that may facilitate either exploration or feeding. Swimming in helices may increase exposure of larvae to settlement cues localized to the seafloor by enhancing their horizontal scanning motion near potential settlement sites. Alternatively, helical swimming may inc...
