• Email Address: gsmalley@rider.edu
• Phone: 609-896-5097
• Fax: 609-895-5782
• Office: SCI 323A
• Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-3099

Dr. Gabriela Smalley received her Ph.D. in marine and estuarine environmental sciences from the University of Maryland in 2002. She currently holds the rank of Assistant Professor II of Geological and Marine Sciences. Before becoming the department’s newest full-time faculty member, she held a postdoctoral position at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Chemical Ecology Laboratory in Savannah. Gabi has a broad background in oceanography, particularly in biological oceanography, and teaches the oceanography courses for marine science majors at Rider University. Her research interests focus on plankton ecology. Gabi is specifically interested in microbial trophic interactions, algal bloom dynamics, and chemical signaling between planktonic predator and prey. She has participated in numerous research cruises in the Chesapeake Bay, the South Atlantic Bight, and in waters off Norway. Her lab and students currently are working on a project looking at nutrient limitation in various phytoplankton species and the different ways these organisms deal with it.

Primary Teaching Responsibilities:

• Oceanography
• Plankton Ecology
• Chemical Oceanography
• Physical Oceanography
• Field Marine Science

Selected Publication Titles and Sources:

• Chemical cues induce consumer-specific defenses in a bloom-forming marine phytoplankton. Submitted for publication.
  
  
• The use of a single-cell alkaline phosphatase assay (ELF 97) to determine phosphorus limitation in mixotrophic dinoflagellates. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Abstracts.
  
  
• Feeding in the mixotrophic dinoflagellate Ceratium furca is influenced by intracellular nutrient concentrations. Marine Ecology.
  
  
• Ecology of the red-tide dinoflagellate Ceratium furca: distribution, mixotrophy, and grazing impact on ciliate populations of Chesapeake Bay. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology.
  
  
• A new method using fluorescent microspheres to determine grazing on ciliates by the mixotrophic dinoflagellate Ceratium furca. Aquatic Microbial Ecology.