<p><a href="mailto: tfrank3@hboi.fau.edu">tfrank3@hboi.fau.edu</a><br />772-242-2311</p>
<h3>Title</h3>
<p>Associate Research Professor</p>
<h3>Education</h3>
<ul>
<li>Postdoctoral Fellowship Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution<br />1992-1994</li>
<li>NIH Postdoctoral Traineeship Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon<br />1989-1991</li>
<li>Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Connecticut Medical Center<br />1988 - 1989</li>
<li>Ph. D. University of California, Santa Barbara 1987</li>
<li>M.A. University of California, Santa Barbara 1984</li>
<li>B.S. California State University, Long Beach 1980</li>
</ul>
<h3>Career</h3>
<ul>
<li>2008 – present Associate Research Professor, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University</li>
<li>2007 – present Adjunct Scientist, Ocean Research and Conservation, Inc.</li>
<li>2000 Affiliate Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University</li>
<li>1998 Associate Scientist, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution</li>
<li>1998 Adjunct Professor, Florida Institute of Technology</li>
<li>1994 Assistant Scientist, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="/id0901f484801d19ca">Detailed CV</a></p>
<h3>Research Interests</h3>
<ul>
<li>adaptations to dim light environments in pelagic and benthic organisms</li>
<li>zooplankton ecology, with emphasis on effects of downwelling light on distribution patterns;</li>
<li>vertical migrations of macrozooplankton and micronekton</li>
</ul>
<h3>Research Projects</h3>
<ul>
<li>Determining if there are differences in photoreceptor physiology between different life history stages of ontogenetically migrating crustaceans, which live in vastly different light environments during their life histories – funded by the National Science Foundation</li>
<li>Studies on optical and structural adaptations in crustaceans to different light environments – funded by the National Science Foundation</li>
<li>Studies on the visual pigment genes associated with the visual pigments in different life history stages of ontogenetically migrating crustaceans – funded by National Science Foundation</li>
<li>Studies on the visual physiology and visual environment of benthic deep-sea crustaceans, many species of which have extremely large eyes, yet live well below the level at which any downwelling light remains – funded by NOAA Department of Ocean Exploration</li>
<li>Correlating behavior with visual physiology in shallow water crustaceans</li>
</ul>
<h3>Discoveries/Results</h3>
<ul>
<li>developed techniques for collecting deep-sea species without blinding them</li>
<li>discovered UV sensitivity in deep-sea pelagic and benthic crustaceans</li>
<li>conducted first electrophysiological recordings ever made from intact photoreceptors of a deep-sea benthic crab</li>
<li>conducted first ever electrophysiological recordings from photoreceptors of a copepod</li>
<li>discovered that some deep-sea species may be following an isolume during their vertical migrations, a hypothesis that had been discounted in recent years</li>
</ul>
<h3>Links to Research Cruise Webpages</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.at-sea.org/missions/deepscope2/" target="_blank">http://www.at-sea.org/missions/deepscope2/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.at-sea.org/missions/migrationmystery/" target="_blank">http://www.at-sea.org/missions/migrationmystery/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.at-sea.org/missions/deepscope/" target="_blank">http://www.at-sea.org/missions/deepscope/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05deepscope/welcome.html" target="_blank">http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05deepscope/welcome.html</a></li>
<li><a href="http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04deepscope/welcome.html" target="_blank">http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04deepscope/welcome.html</a></li>
<li><a href="http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02sab/welcome.html" target="_blank">http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02sab/welcome.html</a></li>
</ul>
Harbor Branch
Tamara Frank, Ph.D.
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Associate Research Professor