CV (Updated March 2025)
Publications (refereed)
*graduate student authors, ** undergraduate student authors, ^Book chapter
Tapia-Guerra, J. M.*, Sellanes, J., Gorny, M., Easton, E. E. (2025) First observations of filamentous cyanobacterial mats on whip black corals (Antipatharia: Stichopathes spp.) off Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile. Bulletin of Marine Science https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2024.0071
Quattrini, A. M., McCartin, L.J., Easton, E. E., Horowitz, J., Wirshing, H. H., Bowers, H., Mitchell, K., Sei, M., McFadden, C. S., Herrera, S. (2024) Skimming genomes for systematics and DNA barcodes of corals. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11254. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11254
Cañete, J. I., Romero, M. S., Easton, E. E., Mecho, A., Sellanes, J. (2023) Chloeia rozbaczyloi, a new species of polychaete (Archinominae: Amphinomidae) and first record of the family for the Nazca Ridge, southeastern Pacific Ocean. Deep-Sea Research Part 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2023.104110
Bollinger, M., Macartney, K. J., Easton, E. E., & Hicks, D. W. (2022). Islands in the mud: The South Texas banks provide crucial mesophotic habitat for coral communities. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1026407
Puccinelli*, E., Zeppilli, D., Stefanoudis, P. V., Wittische-Helou, A., Kermorgant, M., Fuchs, S., Sarrazin, J., Easton, E. E., Weber, A. A. 2022. Hybrid conferences: opportunities, challenges and ways forward. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9:902772. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.902772
Puccinelli*, E., Zeppilli, D., Stefanoudis, P. V., Wittische-Helou, A., Kermorgant, M., Fuchs, S., Sarrazin, J., Easton, E. E., Weber, A. A. 2022. Hybrid conferences: opportunities, challenges and ways forward. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9:902772. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.902772
Morales, N., Coghlan, A. R., Easton, E. E., Friedlander, A. M., Herlan, J., Gaymer, C. F. 2022. Now you see me: recent sightings of Seriola rivoliana at Rapa Nui, the result of range expansion or increased scientific effort? Journal of Fish Biology, 100(3), 835– 842. http://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14983
Tapia-Guerra, J. M., Asorey, C., Easton, E. E., Wagner, D., Gorny, M, Sellanes, J. 2021. First ecological characterization of whip black coral assemblages (Hexacorallia: Antipatharia) in the Easter Island Ecoregion, southeastern Pacific. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8:755898. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.755898
Stefanoudis, P.V., Biancani, L.M., Cambronero-Solano, S., Clark, M., Copley, J. T., Easton, E. E., Elmer, F., Haddock, S. H. D., Herrera, S., Iglesias, I. S., Quattrini, A. M., Sigwart, J., Yesson, C., Glover, A. G. 2021. Moving conferences online: lessons learned from an international virtual meeting. Proceedings Royal Society B, 288:20211769. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1769
Asorey, C., Sellanes, J., Wagner, D., Easton, E. E. 2021. Complete mitogenome of two Antipathidae whip corals from Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Mitochondrial DNA Part. B, 6:11, 3226–3228. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2021.1990150
Friedlander, A. M., Goodell, W., Giddens, J., Easton, E. E., Wagner, D. 2021. Deep-sea biodiversity at the extremes of the Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges with implications for conservation. PLoS ONE 16(6): e0253213. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253213
Tapia-Guerra, J. M., Mecho, A., Easton, E. E., Gallardo, M., Sellanes, J. 2021. First description of deep benthic habitats and communities of oceanic islands and seamounts of the Nazca Desventuradas Marine Park, Chile. Scientific Reports 11:6209. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85516-8
Wagner, D., van der Meer, L., Gorny, M., Sellanes, J., Gaymer, C.F., Soto, E. H., Easton, E. E., Friedlander, A. M., Lindsay, D.J. Molodtsova, T. N., Boteler, B., Durussel, C., Gjerde, K. M., Currie, D., Gianni, M., Brooks, C. M., Shiple, M., Wilhelm, T. A., Quesada, M., Thomas, T., Dunstan, P. K, Clark, N. A., Villanueva, L., Pyle, R. L., Clark, M., Georgian, S. E., Morgan, L. E. 2021. The Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges: A review of the importance, opportunities and challenges for protecting a global diversity hotspot on the high seas. Marine Policy 126:104377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104377
Mecho, A., Dewitte, B., Sellanes, J., van Gennip, S., Easton, E. E., Gusmao, J. B. 2021. Environmental drivers of mesophotic echinoderm assemblages of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science. 8:574780. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.574780
Asorey, C., Sellanes, J., Easton, E. E., Bieler, R., Mecho, A. 2020. Architectonica karsteni Rutsch, 1934 (Gastropoda: Architectonicidae) in seamounts of the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park: First evidence of an extant population in Chilean waters since the Miocene. Nautilus. 134(2):1-10.
Shepherd, B., Pinheiro, H., Phelps, T., Easton, E. E., Pérez-Matus, A., Rocha, L. 2020. A New Species of Chromis (Teleostei: Pomacentridae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Salas y Gómez, Chile. Copeia. 108 (2), 326-332 . https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-19-294
Easton, E.E., Hicks, D. Complete mitogenome of Carijoa riisei (Octocorallia: Alcyonacaea: Stolonifera: Clavulariidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part. B. 5, 1826–1827. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2020.1750998
Morelos*, N., Easton, E.E., Friedlander, A. M., Harvey, E. S., Garcia, R., Gaymer, C.F. 2019. Spatial and seasonal differences in the top predators of Easter Island: essential data for implementing the new Rapa Nui multiple-uses marine protected area. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 29 (S2), 118–129. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3068
Mecho, A., Sellanes, J., Easton, E.E., Gorny, M., Mah, C. 2019. Unexplored diversity of the mesophotic echinoderm fauna of the Easter Island ecoregion. Marine Biology, 166, 91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-019-3537-x
Easton, E.E., Hicks, D. 2019. Complete mitochondrial genome of Callogorgia cf. gracilis (Octocorallia: Calcaxonia: Primnoidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part. B. 4, 361–362. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2018.1544042
Hoeksema, B.M., Sellanes, J., Easton, E.E. 2019. A high-latitude, mesophotic Cycloseris field at 85 m depth off Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Bulletin of Marine Science. 95(1), 101–102. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2018.0053
^Easton, E. E., Gorny, M., Mecho, A., Sellanes, J., Gaymer, C. F., Spalding, H. L., Aburto, J. 2019. Chile and the Salas y Gómez Ridge. In: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems, Coral Reefs of the World, vol 12, pp. 477-490. Loya, Y., Puglise, K. Bridge, T. (eds.) Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92735-0_27
Rodriguez*, R., Easton, E. E., Shirley, T. C., Tunnell, J. W. Jr., Hicks, D. 2018. Preliminary multivariate comparison of coral assemblages on carbonate banks in the western Gulf of Mexico. Gulf and Caribbean Research. 29(1), 23–33. https://doi.org/10.18785/gcr.2901.11
Gorny, M., Easton, E. E., Sellanes, J. 2018. First record of black corals (Antipatharia) in shallow coastal waters of northern Chile by means of underwater video. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research. 46, 457–460. http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol46-issue2-fulltext-20
Easton, E. E., Gaymer, C. F., Friedlander, A.M., Herlan, J. J. 2018. Effects of herbivore abundance, wave exposure, and depth on benthic coral communities of the Easter Island Ecoregion. Marine and Freshwater Research. 69(6), 997–1006. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF17064
Rohal, M., Thistle, D. Easton E. E. 2018. Extraction of metazoan meiofauna from muddy deep-sea samples: operator and taxon effects on efficiency. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 502, 105–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2017.01.006
Easton, E E., Sellanes, J. 2018. First record of the yellowfin soldierfish, Myripristis chryseres Jordan and Evermann 1903 (Beryciformes: Holocentridae), in the Easter Island Ecoregion. Pacific Science 72, 143–148. https://doi.org/10.2984/72.1
Easton, E. E., Gaymer, C. F., Sellanes, J., Morales*, N., Berkenpas, E., Gorny, M. 2016. Diversity of deep-sea fishes of the Easter Island Ecoregion. Deep-sea Research Part II 137, 78–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.12.006
Easton, E. E., Thistle, D. 2016. Do some deep-sea, sediment-dwelling species of harpacticoid copepods have 1,000-km-scale range sizes? Molecular Ecology 25, 4301-4318. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13744
Easton, E. E., Darrow**, E. M., Spears T., Thistle D. 2014. The mitochondrial genomes of Amphiascoides atopus and Schizopera knabeni (Harpacticoida: Miraciidae) reveal similarities between the copepod orders Harpacticoida and Poecilostomatoida. Gene 538, 123–137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2013.12.053
Easton, E. E., Thistle, D. 2014. An effective procedure for DNA isolation and voucher recovery from millimeter-scale copepods and new primers for the 18S rRNA and cytb genes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 465, 135–143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2014.06.016
Rohal, M., Thistle, D., Easton, E. E. 2014. Meiofaunal abundances on the continental rise off the coast of California. Deep-sea Research Part I 93, 131–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2014.07.004
Easton, E. E., D. Thistle, and T. Spears. 2010. Species boundaries in Zausodes-complex species (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Harpacticidae) from the north-eastern Gulf of Mexico. Invertebrate Systematics 24, 258–270. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS09038
Publications (non-refereed)
Gaymer, C.F., Wagner, D., Álvarez, R., Bravo, L., Dewitte, B., Easton, E. E., Hormazábal, S., Hucke-Gaete, R., Friedlander, A.M., Gorny, M., Luna-Jorquera, G., Ramos, M., Rodrigo, C., Sellanes, J., Soto, E., Thiel, M., Véliz, D. Importance of the Salas y Gómez and Nazca Ridges. 10th meeting of the scientific committee, South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation. 26-30 September 2022, Seoul, Korea. SC10-Doc30. https://www.sprfmo.int/assets/Meetings/SC/10th-SC-2022/SC10-Doc30-Importance-of-the-Salas-y-Gomez-and-Nazca-ridges-a-CL.pdf
Wagner, D., Friedlander, A. M., Pyle, R. L., Gjerde, K. M., Wilhelm, T. A., Easton, E. E., Gaymer, C. F., Brooks, C. M., van der Meer, L., Morgan, L. E., Georgian, S. E. Conserving the Last Ocean Frontiers. 2021. GIS for Science: Maps for Saving the Planet, Volume 3. Wright, D.J, Harder, C (eds). ESRI Press. https://www.esri.com/en-us/esri-press/browse/gis-for-science-maps-for-saving-the-planet-volume-3; online companion at https://doi.org/10.17128/9781589485877
Easton, E. E., Sellanes, J. 2016. Hidden Diversity of the Fishes of Rapa Nui (La Diversidad Oculta de Peces en Rapa Nui). In: Exploring the Secrets of the Sea of Rapa Nui (Explorando los Secretos del Mar de Rapa Nui). Thiel, M., Narváez, S., Thieme, H. A. Impresores S.A., Chile: 44–48.
Easton, E. E., Sellanes, J. 2015. Hidden diversity of fishes of Rapa Nui (Diversidad oculta de peces en Rapa Nui). Moe Varua, Rap Nuí. Quad Graphics Chile S.A., Chile. October 2015, 8 (92): 1–4.
Easton, E. E. 2014. Deep-sea faunal investigations from macrofaunal abundance to Harpacticoid (Crustacea: Copepoda) species’ ranges, including molecular analyses of harpacticoids. Doctoral dissertation, Florida State University. http://gradworks.umi.com/36/37/3637975.html
Easton, E. E. 2009. On species’ boundaries in Zausodes-complex species. Masters thesis, Florida State University. http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:253865/datastream/PDF/view
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