Staff Profile
Jesus Pineda
Preferred Name: Jesus G Pineda
SENIOR SCIENTIST
BIOLOGY
Email: jpineda@whoi.edu
Phone: 508 289 2274
Office: MRF 221
Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Mail Stop 50
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Education
B.S. Escuela Superior de Ciencias Marinas, Ensenada, Mexico, U.A.B.C., 1983, Biological Oceanography
M.S. C.I.C.E.S.E., Ensenada, Mexico, 1987, Marine Ecology
Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1993, Oceanography
Research Interests
• Benthic ecology and nearshore oceanography. Hydrodynamic forcing on shallow water benthic communities.
• Larval transport, larval dispersal and population connectivity.
• Larval behavior as related to larval transport.
• Settlement and recruitment.
• Population ecology.
• Large-scale ecology of shallow and deep-sea benthic communities.