Research Interests

Planktonic predator-prey interactions involving gelatinous zooplankton, primarily medusae and ctenophores.  Includes functional morphology of predation; behavioral interactions and evolution of predatory strategies

Education

B.A. Biology, Williams College. 1976.

M.S. Biology, University of South Carolina. 1981.

Ph.D.Biology, University of Southern California. 1987

Recent Publications (Providence College biology undergraduate students in bold):

Colin, S.P., J.H. Costello, W.M. Graham and J. Higgins. 2005.  Omnivory by the small cosmopolitan hydromedusa Aglaura hemistoma.  

	Limnology and Oceanography 50: 1264-1268  

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

	metapopulation dynamics of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Limnology and Oceanography

Dabiri, J.O, S.P. Colin, J.H. Costello, M. Gharib. 2005. Flow patterns generated by oblate medusan swimmers: in situ observation and analysis.  

	Journal of  Experimental Biolology  208: 1257-1265.

Mianzan, H.W., F. Ramirez, J.H. Costello, L. Chiaverano. 2005.  Un mar de gelatina?  Ciencia Hoy 58:  49-55.

Rapoza, R., D. Novak, and J.H. Costello.  2005. Life-stage dependent, in situ dietary patterns of the lobate ctenophore 

	Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz from Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.  Journal of Plankton Research 27:  951-956.