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Showe-Mei LIN

Research Department
National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
2 Houwan Rd, Checheng
Pingtung 944, Taiwan
e-mail: sxlin@mail.nmmba.gov.tw

CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRENT POSITION:

Assistant Professor
Research Department
National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
2 Houwan Rd, Checheng
Pingtung 944, Taiwan

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

Phylogeny, systematics and biogeography of marine red algae (especially the Delesseriaceae), algal culture, computer applications (map and video, imagery, database), underwater still and video photography.

EDUCATION

2000. Ph.D. (January 1997 - May 2000), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana USA. Dissertation title: "Phylogeny of the marine red algal family Delesseriaceae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta)" (Supervisor: Dr. S. Fredericq).
1996. Masters by Research (January 1995 - May 1996), Botany School, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Thesis title: "Morphology and taxonomy of the genera, Womersleya, Hemineura and Schizoseris (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) from southern Australia" (Supervisor: Dr. G.T. Kraft)
1993. Bachelor of Science (September 1989 - June 1993), Aquaculture Department, National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU), Taiwan, R.O.C.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR TRAINING

Workshop Participant (July 15-20, 1994) "Benthic Algal Flora Survey of North Taiwan", Institute of Marine Biology, NTOU.
Activity: Algal collecting, underwater photography, recording, identification and habit photography in laboratory. (Instructors: Drs. J.E. Lewis and S. Fredericq)
Workshop Participant (August 16-20, 1993) "Workshop on Red Algal Systematics", Institute of Marine Biology, NTOU. (Instructors: Drs. S. Fredericq and L.M. Liao)

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND FIELD EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant on DOE-EETAP grant (Fall 1997 - 2000), UL Lafayette
Research Assistant (May, 1996 - December, 1996): Institute of Marine Biology, NTOU, Benthic Algal Laboratory. (Dr. J.E. Lewis, Laboratory Director). Duties: Teaching students how to collect seaweeds and specimen photography in lab, seaweed identification and description for the marine flora database, publication of new algal records, collecting subtidal (SCUBA) and intertidal seaweeds along N. and S. Taiwan coastline, organization of field trips, and grant report processing.
Research Assistant (March, 1992 - December, 1994): Institute of Marine Biology, NTOU, Benthic Algal Laboratory. Duties: Collecting subtidal (SCUBA) and intertidal seaweeds seasonally (e.g., Orchid Island, Green Island, Hsiao-Liuchiu Island, Penghu Island, and Taiwan, especially south Taiwan), photography, organization of fieldtrips and specimen processing, field-data recording and analyses, and grant report processing.
Gulf Coast of Florida and Louisiana: marine algal collecting (Fall '97-Spring '98)
Falkland Islands: marine algal collecting (January 1998)

AWARDS

1997 Spring, Summer & Fall: UL Lafayette Graduate Student Organization Financial Support.
1997 Hoshaw Travel Award, Phycology Society of America: to attend and present a poster in the PSA annual meeting conjuncted with the International Phycological Congress (IPC) in Leiden, the Netherlands, August 9-16 1997.
1998 Spring & Fall: UL Lafayette Graduate Student Organization Financial Support.
1998 Hoshaw Travel Award, Phycology Society of America to attend and present a paper at the PSA annual meeting in Flagstaff, AZ, 3-8 Aug. 1998.
1998. Sigma Xi award for Second Best Graduate Student Presentation, Southern Louisiana Chapter, Oct. 29.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant (Spring '97) University of Louisiana at Lafayette.Duties: Teaching "Biological Principles & Issues II" (Laboratory for undergraduate students)
Demonstrator (May - September, 1995) Botany School, Melbourne University, Australia Duties: Assisted demonstration of laboratory course in "Marine Botany" for first- and third-year undergraduate students.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chairperson (Voluntary) (September, 1990 - June, 1991) Service Committee, Student Union, NTOU. Duties: Organization and coordination of all student service activities in NTOU.
Youth Worker (Voluntary) (September, 1990 - June, 1993) Lu La La 22, Chinese Youth Service Society, Taiwan. Duties: Assisted coordination of activities of the Chinese Youth Service Society.

SKILLS

SCUBA Diving: Open-water certificate.
Specialty Diver: Underwater photographer, PADI.
Dark room techniques: Developing and printing black and white film.
Imagery processing/computer applications.

PUBLICATIONS

Lin, S.-M, J.E. Lewis & S. Fredericq. Drachiella liaoii sp. nov., a new member of the Schizoserideae (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) from Taiwan and the Philippines. European Journal of Phycology (provisionally accepted).
Lin S.-M, Fredericq S. & M.H. Hommersand. 2001. Systematics of the Delesseriaceae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) based on LSU rDNA and rbcL sequences, including the Phycodryoideae, subfam. nov. Journal of Phycology 37:000-000.
Lin S.-M. & S. Fredericq. 2001. Neotypification and taxonomic status of Opephyllum martensii Schmitz in Schmitz et Hauptfleisch (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) from Zamboanga, southern Philippines. Botanica Marina 44: 000-000.
Lin S.M., Hommersand M.H. and Kraft G.T. 2001. Characterization of Hemineura frondosa, Hemineureae trib. nov. (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta), from southern Australia. Phycologia 40: 135-146.
Lin S.M. and Kraft G.T. 1999. Schizoseris tasmanica (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) , a new red algal species and first record of the genus for the Australian marine flora. Phycologia 38: 128-137.
Lin S.M. and Kraft G.T. 1996. The morphology and taxonomy of Womersleya monanthos (J. Agardh) Papenfuss, an endemic genus and species of Delesseriaceae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) from southeastern Australia. Phycological Research 44(4): 173-183.
Lewis J.E. and Lin S.M. 1994. Report on a Four-Day Field Investigation of the Benthic Plants of Dong Sha Island, Northern South China Sea. pp. 377-390. In Fang Li-Xing and Li Jian-Quan (Eds.) Report on the Investigation of the South China Sea Ecology and Environment. Executive Yuan, Ministry of Agriculture. (In Chinese)
Lewis J.E. and Lin S.M. 1994. Report on a Five-Day Field Investigation of the Benthic Marine Plants of Taiping Island, Nan Sha Archipelago, South China Sea. pp. 127-143. In Fang Li-Xing and Li Jian-Quan (Eds.) Report on the Investigation of the South China Sea Ecology and Environment. Executive Yuan, Ministry of Agriculture. (In Chinese)

PUBLICATIONS in progress.

Lin, S.M. and Lewis, J.E. New records for Taiwan's Benthic Marine Algal Flora.


CONTRIBUTED PAPERS AND PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

1995. "The Seaweed Flora of South Taiwan - Taxa and Seasonal and Geographic Distributions Clarified Through Community Ecology". 15th Seaweed Symposium, Valdivia, Chile, January. Published abstract [Lewis J.E. and Lin, S.M.]
1996. "Four Undescribed Red Algae from South Taiwan". First Asian Pacific Phycological Forum, Sydney, Australia, July. Published abstract, First Asian Pacific Phycological Forum, Sydney, Australia, July [Lewis J.E., Fredericq S. & Lin S.M.]
1997. "Approaching the phylogeny of the Delesseriaceae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta)". 19th Southeastern Phycological Colloquy, Cedar Key, Fla., Oct. 24-26.
1998. "Phylogeny of the Delesseriaceae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta): a preliminary study derived from morphological and molecular data". XVIth International Seaweed Symposium, Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines, 12-17 April [Lin S.M. & Fredericq S.]. (Abstract)
1998. "Preliminary phylogeny of the marine red algal family Delesseriaceae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta)". Ann. PSA meeting, Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ, Aug. 3-8 (Abstract)
1998. " Phylogeny of the marine red algal family Delesseriaceae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta). Sigma Xi STudent Research Symposium, Ocr. 29, USL. (abstract)
1998. "Phylogenetic reconstruction of the marine red algal family Delesseriaceae (Rhodophyta) inferred from two molecular datasets". 20th Southeastern Phycological Colloquy, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Ft. Pierce, FL, Aug. 3-8 [Lin S.M. & S. Fredericq]
1999. "Phylogeny of the Marine Red Algal family Delesseriaceae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta). Dept. of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, March 4.
1999.- "Phylogenetic reconstruction of the Delesseriaceae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) inferred from two molecular datasets". 21st Southeastern Phycological Colloquy, LUMCON, Nov. 5-7 1999 [S.M. Lin, S. Fredericq & M.H. Hommersand]
2000.-"Characterization and biogeographic affinities of the offshore algae from the Northwestern Gulf of mexico Hard Bank Communities" . Gulf of Mexico Symposium 2000, Mobile, AL, April 9-12 [S. Fredericq, N. Phillips, B. Gavio, C.F. Gurgel, S.M. Lin & B. Wysor].
2000.-" Characterization of the offshore marine macroalgae from the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Hard Bank communities". 4th Annual Meeting Phycol. Soc. Am., San Diego CA [S. Fredericq , N. Phillips, B. Gavio, C.F. Gurgel, S.M. Lin, B. Wysor & J. Lopez-Bautista] (Abstract J. Phycol. Suppl. 36(3):68)) .
2000."Phylogenetic and taxonomic reassessment of the Delesseriaceae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) based on two molecular datasets". 54th Annual Meeting Phycol. Soc. Am., San Diego CA [S.M. Lin, S. Fredericq & M. Hommersand (Abstract J. Phycol. Suppl. 36(3):131)).
2001.-"Documentation of macroalgal diversity and algal community structure in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Hard Banks Communities". International Phycological Congress, Thessaloniki, Greece, Aug. 18-25. [N. Phillips, S. Fredericq, F. Gurgel, B. Gavio, B. Wysor, S.-M. Lin, J. Lopez-Bautista & E. Hickerson]. (Abstract, Phycologia 40(4) Suppl., nr. 93, pp. 29-30).


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