About

Astrid Schnetzer

Assistant Professor (research) of Biological Sciences

Contact Information
E-mail: astrids@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-3675
Office: AHF 107

LINKS
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website
 

Education
B.S. Zoology, University of Vienna, Austria, 1995
M.S. Zoology /Ecology, University of Vienna, Austria, 1996
Ph.D. Marine Biology, University of Vienna, Austria, 2001
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Non-Tenure Track Appointments
Research Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 2006-  
 

PostDoctoral Appointments
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Southern California, 01/01/2002-12/31/2005  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Plankton food web dynamics, microbial ecology and biogeochemical cycling. Research projects focus on studying protistan species composition in different geographical regions / habitats (coastal waters, Antarctica, deep sea), trophic interactions that impact protistan community structure (mesozooplankton feeding), the ecology of harmful algae blooms and the identification of key factors that promote growth and toxin production in harmful algae species (eg, Pseudo-nitzschia spp.).
 

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies,http://wrigley.usc.edu/
 

Publications

Book Chapter
Caron, D. A., Schnetzer, A. (2006). Protistan community structure. Manual of Environmental Microbiology/ASM.
 

Journal Article
Schnetzer, A., Moorthi, S., Countway, P. D., Gast, R. J., Gilg, I. C., Caron, D. A. (in preparation) Depth matters: Microbial eukaryote diversity and community structure in the eastern North Pacific as indicated by environmental gene libraries. Deep Sea Research I.
Smith, R. N., Janeshwar, D., Hordur, H., Peirera, A., Arrichiello, P., Cetinic, I., Darjany, L., Garneau, M., Howard, M., Oberg, C., Ragan, M., Seubert, E., Smith, E. C., Stauffer, B., Schnetzer, A., Toro-Farmer, G., Caron, D. A., Jones, B. H., Sukhatme, G. (2009). The USC Center for Integrated Networked Aquatic PlatformS (CINAPS): Observing and Monitoring the Southern California Bight . IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine..
Caron, D. A., Garneau, M., Seubert, E., Howard, M., Darjany, L., Schnetzer, A., Cetinic, I., Filteau, I., Lauri, P., Jones, B. H., Trussell, S. (2009). Harmful algae and their potential impacts on desalination operations off Southern California. Water Research.
Gilg, I. C., Amaral_Zettler, L. A., Countway, P. D., Moorthi, S., Schnetzer, A., Caron, D. A. (2009). Phylogenetic affiliations of mesopelagic acantharia and acantharian-like environmental 18S rRNA genes in the San Pedro Channel. Protist.
Wood, E. S., Schnetzer, A., Benetiz-Nelson, C. R., Anderson, C., Berelson, W., Brezinski, M., Burns, J., Caron, D. A., Cetinic, I., Ferry, J., Fitzpatrick, E., Jones, B. H., Miller, P. E., Morton, S. L., Schaffner, R. A., Siegel, D., Thunell, R. (2009). Rapid downward transport of the neurotoxin domoic acid in coastal waters. Nature Geoscience. Vol. 2 (4), pp. 272-275.
Caron, D. A., Countway, P. D., Savai, P., Gast, R., Schnetzer, A., Moorthi, S., Dennett, M. R., Moran, D. M., Jones, A. C. (2009). Defining DNA-Based Operational Taxonomic Units for Microbial-Eukaryote Ecology. Applied Environmental Microbiology. Vol. 75 (18), pp. 5797–5808.
Litaker, W. R., Stewart, T. N., Eberhart, B. T., Wekell, J. C., Trainer, V. L., Kudela, V. L., Miller, P. E., Roberts, A., Hertz, C., Johnson, T. A., Frankfurter, G., Smith, J., Schnetzer, A., Schumacker, J., Bastian, J. L., Odell, A., Gentien, P., Le Gal, D., Hardison, D. R., Tester, T. A. (2008). Rapid Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay for Detection of the Algal Toxin Domoic Acid. Journal of Shellfish Research. Vol. 27, pp. 1-10.
Schnetzer, A., Miller, P. E., Schaffner, R. A., Stauffer, B. A., Jones, B. H., Weisberg, S. B., DiGiacomo, P. M., Berelson, W. M., Caron, D. A. (2007). Blooms of Pseudo-nitzschia and Domoic Acid in the San Pedro Channela and Los Angeles harbor areas of the Southern California Bight, 2003-2004. Harmful Algae. Vol. 6 (3), pp. 372-387.
Schnetzer, A., Caron, D. A. (2006). Copepod grazing impact on the trophic structure of the microbial assemblage of the San Pedro Channel, California. Journal of Plankton Research/Oxford. Vol. 27, pp. 959-972.
Schnetzer, A., Steinberg, D. K. (2002). Active Transport of particulate organic carbon and nitrogen by vertically migrating zooplankton in the Sargasso Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series/Inter Research. Vol. 234, pp. 71-84.
Schnetzer, A., Steinberg, D. K. (2002). Diets of Vertically Migrating Zooplankton in the Sargasso Sea. Marine Biology/SpringerLink. Vol. 141(1), pp. 89-99.
 

Honors and Awards
Women Evolving Biological Sciences (WEBS) participant, National Science Foundation's ADVANCE Program, Fall 2008   
Two-year Schrödinger Stipend for Postdoctoral Studies awarded from the Austrian Science Fund, 2/1/2002-2/1/2004  
Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research Program Participant, Spring 2003   
 

Service to the Profession

Professional Memberships
International Society for the Study of Harmful Alga, 2006-  
The Oceanography Society, 2005-  
American Geophysical Union, 2001-  
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 2001-  
 
 
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