Research Interests

Effects of climate change on marine species, with emphasis on the ecology of jellyfish and their prey; innovations in science education.

Education

B.A. Catholic University, Biology 1969

M.S. Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Engineering, 1972

Ph.D. Oregon State University, Biological Oceanography. 1977

Recent Publications:

Sullivan, B.K., Costello, J.H., VanKeuen, D. In press. Seasonality of the copepods Acartia hudsonica and Acartia tonsa in Narragansett Bay, RI, USA during a period of climate change. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

 Sullivan, B.K., Gifford, D.J., Costello, J.H., Graff, J.R.  In press. Ctenophore-Zooplankton-Phytoplankton Dynamics in a Changing Climate: Do the Old Paradigms Hold? In: Science for Ecosystem-based Estuarine Management: Narragansett Bay in the 21st Century.  Ed.: A. Desbonnet.  Springer Environmental Series.

 Steele, J. H., J.S. Collie, J.J. Bisagni, D.J. Gifford, M. J. Fogarty, ,J. S. Link, B.K. Sullivan, M.E. Sieracki, A. R. Beet, D.G. Mountain, E.G. Durbin, D. Palka and W.T. Stockhausen. In Press.  Balancing end-to-end budgets of the Georges Bank ecosystem. Progress in Oceanography

 Costello, J.H., B.K. Sullivan, Gifford, D.J. 2006 A physical–biological interaction underlying variable phonological responses to climate change by coastal zooplankton. J. of Plankton Res. 128: 1099-1105.

J.H. Costello, B. K. Sullivan, D. J. Gifford, D. Van Keuren, L. Sullivan. 2006. Seasonal refugia, shoreward thermal amplification and

metapopulation dynamics of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in Narragansett Bay, RI, USA. Limnol. Oceanogr. 51:1819-1831.

 

Sullivan, B.K., D. Van Keuren, M. Clancy. 2001. Seasonal range expansion of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in relation to temperature in

Narragansett Bay, RI. Hydrobiologia 451:113-120.

 

Sullivan, B.K. and C.L. Suchman, J.H. Costello. 1997. 'Mechanics of prey selection by ephyrae of the scyphomedusa, Aurelia aurita.' Marine Biology

130:213-222.