| Dan Brumbaugh |
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| Senior Conservation Scientist |
As Senior Conservation Scientist at the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, Dr. Dan Brumbaugh has developed and leads a number of projects focusing on the design and implementation of marine protected areas (MPAs). This research focuses on how to map coral reef biodiversity for conservation purposes, how to incorporate connectivity into marine conservation planning, and how the biological and socioeconomic aspects of MPAs interact to influence how protected systems work. Dr. Brumbaugh also helps address scientific and policy aspects of marine protected areas as a visiting scientist at NOAA's National Marine Protected Areas Center - Science Institute; a member of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council; a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas' North American Region and Marine Priority Biome groups; and as a contributor to meetings, workshops, and working groups addressing MPA design and evaluation. In addition to marine conservation work, Dr. Brumbaugh is interested in marine ecology and evolutionary biology, especially studies on how marine organisms adapt to their local environments and how they speciate through time and space. Dr. Brumbaugh has worked throughout the greater Caribbean, including Florida, The Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, and Panama, and along the Pacific coast from Washington state to Baja California. He was the principle content designer and coordinator of the AMNH symposium "Sustaining Seascapes" (http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/symposia/archives/seascapes/index.html/) and is editing the academic book derived from the symposium. Dr. Brumbaugh received a B.S. in Biological Sciences and an A.B. in Art History from Stanford University in 1987, a Ph.D. in Zoology (with emphases in evolutionary ecology and conservation biology) from the University of Washington in 1996, and was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas - Austin in 1997. He joined the Museum in early 1998. |
| Harborne, A.R., P.J. Mumby, F. Micheli, C.T. Perry, C.P. Dahlgren, D.R. Brumbaugh and P. Kramer. 2006. The functional value of Caribbean reef habitats to ecosystem processes. Advances in Marine Biology 48. In press
Semmens, B.X., D.R. Brumbaugh, and J.A. Drew. 2005. Interpreting space use and behavior of blue tang, Acanthurus coeruleus, in the context of habitat, density, and intra-specific interactions. Environmental Biology of Fishes. In press.
Granek, E.F., D.R. Brumbaugh, S.A. Heppell, S.S. Heppell, D. Secord. 2005. A blueprint for our oceans: Implications of two national commission reports for conservation practitioners. Conservation Biology 19(4): 1008-1018.
Brumbaugh, D.R. 2002. "Bryozoa," "Cnidaria," "Coral Reefs," "Nurseries," "Preservation of Habitats" (w/ M. Laverty) and other topics. In: N. Eldredge (ed.), Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara.
Brauer, M.J., and D.R. Brumbaugh. 2001. Biology remystified: The scientific claims of the new creationists. In: R.T. Pennock (ed.), Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological and Scientific Perspectives. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA: 289-334.
Helmuth, B.S.T., E.F. Stockwell, and D.R. Brumbaugh. 1997. Morphological and environmental determinants of mass flux to corals. Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium 2: 1103-1108.
Paine, R.T., J.L. Ruesink, A. Sun, E.L. Soulanille, M.J. Wonham, C.D.G. Harley, D.R. Brumbaugh, and D.L. Secord. 1996. Trouble on oiled waters: lessons from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 27: 197-235.
Brumbaugh, D.R., J.M. West, J.L. Hintz, and F.E. Anderson. 1994. Determinants of recruitment in an epiphytic marine bryozoan: field manipulations of flow and host quality. In: W.H. Wilson, Jr., S.A. Stricker, and G.L. Shinn (eds.), Reproduction and Development of Marine Invertebrates. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 287-301. |
