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EDUCATION
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 08/2005 - present, Ph.D. Student
Cornell University, Shoals Marine Laboratory, Appledore Island, ME 07/2003,
-Underwater Research, AAUS Certification
State University at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 1998-2002
B.A. Physics with Biology Minor (3.85/4.0), strong background in math and chemistry

Current Scholarships and Grants:
• National Science Foundation- Graduate Research Fellowship (2005)
• Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre Graduate Scholarship ($6000, 2006)
• Robert B. Short Scholarship in Biology, Florida State University ($600, 2006)
• Parks Canada Research Grant ($10000, 2007)
• Sigurd Tveit Memorial Scholarship, Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre ($2500, 2007)

Past Awards, Honors, and Scholarships:
• Commencement Student Speaker (May 2002) • Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence (2002)
• George E. Moore Award for Academic Excellence in Physics (2002) • Goldwater Scholarship (2001)
• SUNY Scholarship for Academic Achievement (2001) • Golden Key National Honor Society (2000)
• Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society (1999)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, Vancouver Island, Canada 03--08/2007
-Dissertation research: "Ecological And Oceanographic Mechanisms Affecting The Recruitment And Reproductive Success Of Pacific Coast Rockfishes"– snorkeling on traps for the collection of juvenile fish, visual surveys, boat operation, preservation of tissues and otoliths

Bamfield Marine Station, Bamfield, Vancouver Island, Canada 05-06/2006
- “Polyspermy in Strongylocentrotus sea urchins” – lab experiments manipulating egg and sperm concentrations,
rearing larvae, quantifying fertilization
- “The effect of spawning duration on fertilization success” – field experiments using underwater plankton
pump, rearing and fixing larvae for genetic analysis
-“Can flow mediated by urchin spine morphology increase fertilization success? A test of the fluid-dynamic reciprocity hypothesis”- flume experiments

Smithsonian Tropical Institute, Carrie Bow Caye, Belize and Bocas del Toro, Panama 09/2006 and 09/2005
-“Hybridization in Montastrea spp. coral complex”- Night dives during coral spawning, data collection,
following gametes to surface; lab assays for hybridization potential
-“Diffusion of coral bundles and gametes at different spatial scales” – measurement of sperm dispersal from a bundle, bundle dispersal from coral heads, and dispersal of bundles on the water surface

Edward Percival Field Station, Kaikoura, South Island, New Zealand 10/2003-04/2004
Research Assistant, 40hrs/week. Dave Schiel- Marine Ecology Research Group 08/2004 –07/2005
-Projects and duties include: data collection and entry for an intertidal quarterly sampling program at three sites on the east coast; experiment on succession in mussel beds; build databases with Microsoft Access, photography and design of an intertidal species guide; operation of and responsibility for oceanographic field equipment; assist on seaweed ecology and physiology projects; sorting of mussel and barnacle larvae; assist in field on research vessel; webmaster.

Glacier Bay National Park, Gustavus, Alaska. 09/2002-11/2002
Volunteer, 40hrs/week. Supervisor Julie Barber - Biotechnician
-“Factors Influencing Injury of Trapped Dungeness Crabs, Cancer magister, and Survival Consequences for Released Sublegal Males in Glacier Bay, Alaska” -- Long field days (up to 12 hours) in inclement conditions on a boat, lifting crab traps, tagging and measuring of Dungeness crabs, operation of underwater video equipment, boat operation and trouble shooting (17ft. whaler), Animal behavior study through video analysis, Microsoft Access

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, NY 05/2001-08/2001
REU Research Undergraduate, 40 hrs/ week. Robert Knox - Theoretical Biophysics
-“Inhomogeneous Broadening and the Gulen-Knox Theory of Excited State Anisotropy”
- Computer programming with Matlab, basic quantum mechanics.

Chemistry Department, Binghamton University, NY Spring 2001&2002
Undergraduate Research, 12 hrs/ week. Omuwunmi Sadik – Analytical Chemistry

Physics Department, University of California at San Diego, CA 05/2000-08/2000
REU Research Undergraduate, 40 hrs/ week. Robert Dynes - Condensed Matter Physics, Organic Chemistry

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant, Shoals Marine Laboratory, Underwater Research Class 07/2004
Physics Department, Binghamton University, NY 01/2000-12/2001
Physics Teaching Assistant; 3 hours/week; responsible for teaching and grading the laboratory sessions
EOP Tutorial Center, Binghamton University, NY 01/2000-05/2001
“Walk-in” Math and Science Tutor; 8 hours/ week; tutoring in physics, math, biology, and chemistry

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Ecology and Evolution Reading and Discussion Group, Secretary 09/2006-08/2007
Nature Conservancy, Member 2006
Loreto National Marine Park: Leopard Grouper Project (Loreto, Baja, Mexico) 04/2004

SKILLS AND ACTIVITIES
CPR, First Aid, and Oxygen certified through 06/2008
Spanish (working knowledge), travels in Mexico and Central America
PADI Dive Certifications: Rescue
Computer Programs: R, Statistica, Microsoft Access, PRIMER, Matlab, Image J, Dreamweaver, Labview, Java

PEER-REVEIWED PUBLICATIONS
1. Knox, R.S., D. Gülen, and K. E. Lotterhos. Effect of inhomogeneous broadening on the fluorescence anisotropy of a square-symmetric molecule. Chem. Phys. Letters 361 (2002) 285-290.
2. Lotterhos, K.E. and D.R. Levitan, in preparation for Biological Bulletin. Modeling dispersal of gametes from a coral bundle estimated as diffusion from a point source.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1. Barber, J., and Lotterhos, K.E., 2007, Causes and costs of injury in trapped Dungeness crabs, in Piatt, J.F., and Gende, S.M., eds., Proceedings of the Fourth Glacier Bay Science Symposium, October 26–28, 2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5047, p. 181-182.
2. Marine Ecology Research Group, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Guide to the Species of Rocky Shores: South Island, New Zealand.

CONTRIBUTED POSTERS and TALKS
1. (Poster) Katie E. Lotterhos, Robert S. Knox, and Demet Gülen. Effect of inhomogeneous broadening on optical anisotropy in magnesium tetraphenyl porphyrin. Poster 13, Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference 19, Woods Hole, MA, Sat., Apr. 13, 2002.
2. (Poster) Katie E. Lotterhos, David R. Schiel, and Paul South. Investigating the role of consumer functional groups in the succession of an intertidal mussel bed. Benthic Ecology Conference, Québec City, Canada, March 8-12, 2006.
3. (Talk) Katie E. Lotterhos and Don Levitan. Can flow mediated by urchin spine morphology increase fertilization success? Western Society of Naturalists, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 9-12, 2006.
4. (Talk) Katie E. Lotterhos and Don Levitan. Broadcast spawners that poof: a model of turbulent diffusion from a point source applied to coral spawning in the field. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Jan. 3-7, 2007.