MICHAEL E. SMITH
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
301-405-6903 (work); 301-725-8654 (home)
mesmith@umd.edu
EDUCATION
Postdoctoral research, 2002-present, The University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Biology.
Ph.D., 2001, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Marine Science.
M.S., 1996, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Zoology.
B.S., 1994, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Zoology (University Honors).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004-present Lecturer, Biology of Fishes and Introductory Biology, University of Maryland, Dept. of Biology
2003-present NIH Individual National Research Service Award Fellow, Univ. of Maryland, Dept. of Biology
2002-2003 Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing Postdoctoral Trainee, UMD, Dept. of Biology
2000-2001 University Continuing Fellow, UT-Austin, Marine Science Institute
1999-2001 E. J. Lund Marine Science Research Fellow, UT-Austin, Marine Science Institute
1996-99 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Depts. of Zoology and Marine Science, UT-Austin
1994-96 Graduate Research and Teaching Assitant, Department of Zoology, Brigham Young University
RECENT GRANT SUPPORT
Pending National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: Form, Function, and Evolution of Swim Bladder Modifications in Loricariid Catfish, Principal Investigator: M.E. Smith.
2004-2005 National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation Grant, A new model of noise-induced hair cell loss and regeneration, Principal Investigator: M.E. Smith. Direct costs: $15,000.
2003-2005 NIH F32 DC-05890-01 Individual National Research Service Award, Aging and susceptibility to hearing loss in zebrafish, Principal Investigator: M.E. Smith. Direct costs: $90,000
2002-2003 NIH T32 DC-00046-08 training grant to the Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, University of Maryland
2001-2002 Maryland Sea Grant Small Program Development Award, Biological responses to acoustical stress in fishes, Co-Principal Investigator: M.E. Smith. Direct costs: $10,000.
AWARDS AND HONORARY SOCIETIES
Travel Award, 10th International Behavioral Ecology Congress, Finland (2004)
Best student oral presentation and travel award, Behavioral and Physiological Comparisons of Cultured and Wild Fish Symposium at the 5th International Congress on the Biology of Fish (2002)
University Continuing Fellowship, Office of Graduate Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2000-2001)
Sally Richardson Award for best oral presentation, 2nd place, 24th Annual Larval Fish Conference (2000)
G. Fitzgerald Award, best poster at Ethology, Evolutionary Ecology, & Conservation of Fishes Meeting (2000)
E. J. Lund Research Fellowship Award in Marine Science (1999-2001)
David Bruton, Jr. Fellowship, Office of Graduate Studies, University of Texas at Austin (1999)
Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi- University of Texas at Austin (1997)
Golden Key National Honor Society, Brigham Young University (1995)
Brigham Young University tuition scholarships (1988-1989, 1994)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH)
Early Life History Section of the American Fisheries Society (ELHS-AFS)
Society for the Study of Animal Behavior
Association for Research in Otolaryngology
International Society of Neuroethology
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Reviewer for the following journals:
The Great Basin Naturalist, The American Midland Naturalist, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Asian Journal of Andrology, Journal of Chemical Ecology, Ethology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Aquaculture, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, and Hearing Research
2000, 2001 Academic judge for the Texas Ocean Science Bowl, Texas A&M University
SPECIAL SKILLS & TRAINING
Acoustic Communication Course (bioacoustics)- Odense, Denmark, August 2003
Laboratory and hatchery culture of fishes
Foreign languages: Spanish
NAUI Scuba Diver Certification
Computer programming experience: C and Perl
Small boat operation, laboratory safety and hazard communication training, University of Texas
PUBLICATIONS (*invited paper)
Published
Smith, M.E., Kane, A.S., and Popper, A.N. 2004. Acoustical stress and hearing sensitivity in fishes: does the linear threshold shift hypothesis hold water? Journal of Experimental Biology 207:3591-3602.
Smith, M.E., Kane, A.S., and Popper, A.N. 2004. Noise-induced stress response and hearing loss in goldfish (Carassius auratus). Journal of Experimental Biology 207(3):427-435.
Popper, A. N., Fewtrell, J., Smith, M. E. and McCauley, R. D. 2004. Anthropogenic sound: effects on the behavior and physiology of fishes. Marine Technology Society Journal 37:33-38.
Popper, A.N., M.E. Smith, P. Cott, B. Hanna, A. MacGillivray, M. Austin, D. Mann. In press. Effects of exposure to seismic air-guns on fish hearing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Smith, M.E. and L.A. Fuiman. 2004. Behavioral performance of wild-caught and laboratory-reared red drum Sciaenops ocellatus (Linnaeus) larvae. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 302(1):17-33.
Fuiman, L.A., Cowan, J.H. Jr., Smith, M.E., and O’Neal, J.P. In press. Behavior and recruitment success in fish larvae: variation with growth rate and the batch effect. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
Belk, M.C., Johnson, J.B., Wilson, K.W., Smith, M.E., and Houston, D. In press. Variation in intrinsic individual growth rate among populations of leatherside chub (Snyderichthyes copei): adaptation to temperature or length of growing season? Journal of Freshwater Ecology.
Smith, M.E. and L.A. Fuiman. 2003. Causes of growth depensation in red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, larvae. Environmental Biology of Fishes 66:49-60.
Smith, M.E. and M.C. Belk. 2001. Risk-assessment in western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis): do multiple cues have additive effects? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51 (1):101-107.
Smith, M.E. 2000. The alarm response of Arius felis to chemical stimuli from injured conspecifics. The Journal of Chemical Ecology 26 (7):1635-1647.
*Fuiman, L.A., M.E. Smith, and V. Malley. 1999. Ontogeny of routine swimming speed and startle responses in red drum, with a comparison of responses to acoustic and visual stimuli. Journal of Fish Biology 55 (supplement A):215-226.
Smith, M.E. and M.C. Belk. 1996. Sorex monticolus. Mammalian Species 528:1-5.
Popular articles
Smith, M.E. 2003. Do fish make noise or produce sounds? AccessScience Q&A Archives: Biological & Bomedical Science. Week of July 1, 2003. The McGraw-Hill Companies.
In preparation
Popper, A.N., M.B. Halvorsen, M. Hastings, A.S. Kane, D. Miller, M.E. Smith, J. Song, P. Stein, and L.E. Wysocki. Effects of SURTASS LFA sonar on the auditory system of fishes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Smith, M.E., D. Ketten, M.C. Hastings, and A.N. Popper. Form and function of fenestrae: the auditory periphery of Otocinclus catfish.
Wysocki, L.E., Popper, A.N., M.B. Halvorsen, M. Hastings, A.S. Kane, D. Miller, M.E. Smith, J. Song, P. Stein. Effects of low-frequency sonar on fish behavior.
Smith, M.E., Herzka, S.Z., Fuiman, L.A., and Holt, G.J. RNA:DNA, growth, and behavioral performance in red drum larvae.
Smith, M.E., Sabath, D.R. and Fuiman, L.A. Temporal shifts in growth rate variation in fish larvae: inferences from an individual-based size-dependent predation model.
Recent Conference Presentations (out of 21)
A.N. Popper, M.B. Halvorsen, A.S. Kane, D.L. Miller, M.E. Smith, J. Song, L.E. Wysocki. 2005. Effects of low frequency sonar on fish. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 2005 Midwinter Research Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Smith, M.E., N. K. Lujan, and J. Humphries. 2005. Acoustic function of the encapsulated swimbladder of loricariid catfishes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 2005 Meeting. Tampa, Florida.
Smith, M.E., D. Ketten, M.C. Hastings, and A.N. Popper. 2004. Do head holes help hearing?: Sound reception and production in Otocinclus catfish. 10th Jubilee Congress of the International Society of Behavioral Ecology, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Smith, M. E., A. S. Kane, M. C. Hastings, and A. N. Popper. 2004. Physiological effects of noise on fishes. Pp. 299-304. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, R. G. de Jong, T. Houtgast, E. A. M. Franssen, and W. F. Hofman (eds.), Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Smith, M.E., D. Ketten, M.C. Hastings, and A.N. Popper. 2004. Head holes help hearing: the auditory periphery of Otocinclus. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 2003 Midwinter Research Meeting, Daytona Beach, Florida.
Smith, M.E., Kane, A.S. and Popper, A.N. 2003. Acoustical stress and hearing sensitivity in fishes: Can the linear threshold shift hypothesis hold water? Association for Research in Otolaryngology 2003 Midwinter Research Meeting, Daytona Beach, Florida.
Popper, A.N., Smith, M.E., and Kane, A.S. 2003. Biological responses to acoustical stress in fishes. 144th Annual Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Cancun, Mexico.
Smith, M.E. and L.A. Fuiman. 2002. Behavioral performance of wild-caught and laboratory-reared red drum larvae. Pp. 33-37 In: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Biology of Fish, Behavioral and Physiological Comparisons of Cultured and Wild Fish, S. McKinley, B. Driedzic, & D. MacKinlay (eds.), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, 2003-present
-Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology
-Biology of Fishes (personally developed course)
Teaching Assistant, Depts. of Zoology & Marine Science, Univ. of Texas at Austin, 1996-1999
-Mammalian Anatomy
-Biology of Fishes
Teaching Assistant, Department of Zoology, Brigham Young University, 1994-1996
-Human Physiology
-Appreciation of Nature
-Honors History of Science and Civilization
REFERENCES
1. Dr. Arthur N. Popper, Dept. of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
(301) 405-1940; apopper@umd.edu
2. Dr. Andrew S. Kane, Aquatic Pathobiology Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
(301) 314-6808; akane@umaryland.edu
(361) 749-6775; lee@utmsi.utexas.edu
4. Dr. Mark C. Belk, Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
(801) 422-4154; Mark_Belk@byu.edu