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Dr. Beth Stauffer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, the SLEMCO/BORSF Endowed Professor in General Studies, and a Distinguished Professor at ��ɫ. Dr. Stauffer's research has generated over $27 million in extramural funding and she has been recognized with awards at ��ɫ for her research productivity and mentoring of graduate students. She was previously an Early Career ��ɫ Fellow with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf ��ɫ Program and Member-at-Large on the Association for the Sciences of Limnology & Oceanography (ASLO) Board. Dr. Stauffer is committed to removing barriers to equity in her lab, institution, and community. She worked with LUMCON leadership to strengthen their sexual harassment policy, hosted a Minorities in Aquaculture intern, served on the Aspire IChange Team to help “advance the diversity and inclusion of STEM faculty” at ��ɫ, and was on the Department of Biology ​Inclusion and Diversity Committee, among many other activities.

Ph.D. in Marine Environmental Biology, 2011 
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

B.S. in Marine Science & Biology, 2000
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

• Phytoplankton/Protistan Ecology
• Coastal Water Quality Issues

• Sweet, J*, S Casas, J La Peyre, M Genung, BA Stauffer. Effects of the cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa on eastern oyster feeding. Ecosphere 16 (9): e70408. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70408 
• Jaegge, AC*, B Lavergne**, BA Stauffer. Widespread, Low Concentration Microcystin Detection in a Subtropical Louisiana Estuary. Marine Pollution Bulletin 207: 116843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116843
• Raabe, JM*, G Kurtay*, A Fontenot, S Greene, AJ Martignette, EC Milbrandt, BJ Roberts, BA Stauffer. 2024. Operation and integration of a commercially available nitrate sensor in Gulf of Mexico estuarine monitoring programs. Environmental Technology & Innovation, 35: 103676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eti.2024.103676
• Sweet, J*, S Bargu, M Parsons, MG Pathare*, B Roberts, T Sonniat, W Morrison, BA Stauffer. Trends in phytoplankton dynamics in Louisiana estuaries: building a baseline to understand current and future change. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 175: 113344, part of Virtual Special Issue: Plankton in the Gulf of Mexico: Ecological Considerations and the Macondo Oil Spill
• Patrick, CJ, JS Kominoski, WH McDowell, B Branoff, D Lagomasino, M Leon, E Hensel, MJS Hensel, BA Strickland, TM Aide, A Armitage, M Campos-Cerqueira, VM Congdon, TA Crowl, DJ Devlin, S Douglas, BE Erisman, RA Feagin, SJ Geist, NS Hall, AK Hardison, MR Heithaus, JA Hogan, JD Hogan, S Kinard, JJ Kiszka, T-C Lin, K Lu, CJ Madden, PA Montagna, CS O'Connell, CE Proffitt, BK Reese, JW Reustle, KL Robinson, SA Rush, RO Santos, A Schnetzer, DL Smee, RS Smith, G Starr, BA Stauffer, LM Walker, CA Weaver, MS Wetz, ER Whitman, SS Wilson, J Xue, X Zou. A universal pattern of trade-offs between ecosystem resistance and resilience to tropical cyclones. Science Advances, 8:eabl9155

• SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Endowed Professor in Science II, 2020- present
• Outstanding Masters Mentoring Award, ��ɫ Graduate School, 2021
• Nominated for Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, 2019, 2020
• Early Career ��ɫ Fellowship, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf ��ɫ Program, 2018-2020
• Louisiana Discovery, Innovation, and Application Program (LaDIA) Fellow, Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, 2016-2017
• Rising Star Award, ��ɫ ��ɫ Office, Ray P. Authement College of Sciences, 2017
• Certificate of Achievement in Sponsored ��ɫ, ��ɫ, 2016
• ��ɫ Summer Faculty ��ɫ Award, 2016
• AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, 2013
• Invited Participant - Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences (EcoDAS X) Symposium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2012
• Invited participant - Time-series Analysis in Marine Science and Applications for Industry Conference, Logonna-Daoulas, France, 2012
• Invited Participant - 2nd EU-U.S. Developing a New International Architecture for Maritime Policy Conference, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2012
• Lamont-Doherty Postdoctoral Fellowship, LDEO, 2012-2014
• Anita Brown Wilson Scholarship for Environmental Studies, USC, 2011
• IEEE Distinguished Student Humanitarian Prize (2nd Place), Presidents’ Change the World Competition, 2010
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Introduction to Microbiology, USC, 2010
• Invited Participant - Pan-American Sensors for Environmental Observatories (PASEO), an NSF Pan-American Advances Studies Institute (PASI), Argentina, 2009
• College Doctoral Fellowship, USC, 2006
• General University Honors, University of Miami, 2000