Anna Metaxas

Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
1355 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax NS  B3H 4R2

Room 4636 LSC

Phone: (902) 494-3021
   Fax: (902) 494-3877
Email: anna.metaxas@dal.ca
Webpage: http://myweb.dal.ca/metaxas

Education Background

• BSc - Biology, McGill University
• MSc - Oceanography, University of British Columbia
• PhD - Biology, Dalhousie University

Research Interests

• Larval ecology of marine benthic invertebrates including invasive species: factors influencing survival and dispersal including fertilization biology, dietary conditioning, food patchiness, swimming behaviour, flow and turbulence
• Larval production, dispersal and recruitment of invertebrates at hydrothermal vents and other deep-sea habitats
• Structure of macro- and megabenthos associated with assemblages of deep sea corals

4200.06: Honours Research Project
4370.03/5370.03: Deep Sea Biology

Sameoto, J., T. Ross and A. Metaxas - 2010 - The effect of flow on larval vertical distribution of the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology, 383:156-163