Timothy Shank
Preferred Name: Timothy M Shank
ASSOCIATE SCIENTIST W/TENURE
BIOLOGY
Email:
tshank@whoi.edu
Phone: 508 289 3392
Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Mail Stop 33
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Website: https://shanklab.whoi.edu
Education
B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988, Biology
Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1998, Marine Ecology and Evolution
Research Interests
Molecular ecology of marine communities; local-scale genetics of larval recruitment and colonization to broad-scale gene flow and speciation; mechanisms responsible for benthic community succession and population genetic structure, including metapopulation processes and physio-chemical habitat variation; evolution, systematics, and phylogeography of invertebrates (especially crustaceans); new in-situ approaches for benthic observatory research.
