PEOPLE

Graduate Students

Biography

	Michael T. Nishizaki Graduate Student mikenish@u.washington.edu Box: 351800 Office: MikeNish.com Web Site

Selected Publications: Grunbaum D, K Chan, E. Tobin & M. Nishizaki. 2008. Non-linear advection-diffusion equations approximate swarming but not schooling populations. Mathematical Biosciences 214:38-48. JUVENILE SEA URCHINS Nishizaki MT and JD Ackerman. 2007. Juvenile–adult associations in sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus and S. droebachiensis): protection from predation and hydrodynamics in S. franciscanus. Marine Biology 151:135-145. Nishizaki MT and JD Ackerman. 2005. A secondary chemical cue facilitates adult-juvenile associations in red sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus). Limnology and Oceanography 50(1): 354-362. Nishizaki MT and JD Ackerman. 2004. Juvenile-adult associations in sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus and S. droebachiensis): Is nutrition involved? Marine Ecology Progress Series 268:93-103. Nishizaki MT and JD Ackerman. 2001. Gimme shelter: factors influencing juvenile sheltering in Strongylocentrotus franciscanus. Pp. 515-520 In Mike Barker (editor). Echinoderms 2000. Swets and Zeitlinger. Lisse, Netherlands. NICHE SEPARATION IN INTERTIDAL SYSTEMS Marchinko KB, MT Nishizaki, and KC Burns. 2004. Community-wide character displacement in barnacles: A new perspective on an old pattern. Ecology Letters 7: 114-120. Ackerman JD and MT Nishizaki. 2004. The effect of velocity on the suspension feeding and growth of the marine mussels Mytilus trossulus and M. californianus: Implications for competition and niche separation. Journal of Marine Systems 49: 195-207. OTHER Woodson CB et al. 2007. Local diurnal upwelling driven by sea breezes in northern Monterey Bay Continental Shelf Research 27(18): 2289-2302. Ackerman JD and MT Nishizaki. 1999. How stiff is a French fry? Teaching biomechanics to biology students. The Journal of Biological Education 34(1): 36-40.