Research Technician, R & D
Molecular Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
7700 Sandholdt Road
Moss Landing, CA 95039
Phone: (831) 775-1789
Fax: (831) 775-1620
email: jharvey@mbari.org
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Julio is a molecular ecologist and evolutionary biologist currently developing molecular probes to detect zooplankton and phytoplankton (including harmful algal bloom forming species), in water samples collected by two robotic platforms in the Monterey Bay: the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Dorado and the Environmental Sample Processor. Julio’s research in the Vrijenhoek laboratory integrates molecular genetics with robot-mediated high spatial and temporal resolution sampling of oceanographic features (e.g., upwelling fronts, phytoplankton blooms) and associated environmental contextual data. This work falls under MBARI’s Controlled, Agile and Novel, Observing Network (CANON) initiative, and highlights the ability of robotic platforms to monitor planktonic organisms and characterize their relationship to the environment in unique ways, previously impossible using traditional means. Other work has focused on the population genetics and ecology of deep-sea invertebrate species.
Research Interests
Marine resource conservation, ecosystem level fisheries biology, molecular target detection, dispersal and distribution of marine zooplankton (e.g., invertebrate larvae, copepods) and phytoplankton (e.g., diatoms, dinoflagellates, prymnesiophytes, Harmful Algal Bloom species), coevolution of marine symbioses.
Education
2004 University of California Santa Cruz, Ph.D., Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)
1996 University of California Berkeley, B.S., Department of Integrative Biology (IB)
1994-1995 Lunds Universitette, Sweden. University of California Education Abroad Program
Presentations
2011 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Harvey, J. B. J., Ryan, J. P., Marin, R. III, Robidart, J., Preston, C., Alvarado, N., Zhang, Y., McEwen, R. S., Py, F., Bellingham, J. G., Rajan, K., Chavez, F., Scholin, C. A., Vrijenhoek, R.C. Two robotic platforms for molecular detection of marine zooplankton, phytoplankton, bacterioplankton and HAB phycotoxins: A multi-trophic level approach.
2011 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California. Zhang, Y., Ryan, J., Bellingham, J. G., Harvey, J., McEwen, R., Chavez, F., Scholin, C. Classification of water masses and targeted sampling of ocean plankton populations by an autonomous underwater vehicle.
2011 6th Symposium on Harmful Algae in the U.S., Austin, Texas. Birch, J., Harvey, J., Ryan, J., Preston, C., Marin, R. III, Demir, E., Roman, B., Jensen, S., Pargett, D., Doucette, G., Chavez, F., Scholin, C. Sampling harmful algal blooms on the fly: Using an array of ocean observing tools to track suspected harmful algal blooms in real-time.
2010 17th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species, San Diego, California. Invited Speaker: Molecular Techniques and Applications to AIS Monitoring and Detection. Harvey, J. B. J., Marin, R. III, Ryan, J. P., Alvarado, N., Johnson, S. B., Preston, C., Scholin, C. A. and R. C. Vrijenhoek. Using two robotic platforms developed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) for molecular detection and monitoring of marine invertebrate larvae and major copepod groups in situ.
2010 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California. Zhang, Y., McEwen, R., Ryan, J. P., Bellingham, J. G., Harvey, J. B. J. and R. C. Vrijenhoek. Acquiring peak samples from phytoplankton thin layers and intermediate nepheloid layers by an autonomous underwater vehicle with adaptive triggering.
2010 FORAMS International Symposium on Foraminifera, Bonn, Germany. McGann, M., Vrijenhoek, R. C., Johnson, S., Harvey, J., Paull, C. K., Ussler, W., III, and L. Lundsten. Foraminiferal response to whalefalls in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
2009 Sixth International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions, Portland, Oregon. Special Session Invitee: Advances in Detection - the development of molecular tools for detection and monitoring. Harvey, J. B. J., Alvarado, N., Johnson, S., Marin, R. III, Preston, C., Ryan, J., Scholin, C. A. and R. C. Vrijenhoek. Molecular detection of marine invertebrate larvae and major copepod groups in situ using robotic devices developed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
2008 Larval 2008 8th Larval Biology Symposium IPIMAR, Lisbon, Portugal. Harvey, J. B. J., Rodriguez, R. and M. Hoy. Molecular detection of native and invasive invertebrate larvae from ballast and open waters.
2006 14th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species, Key Biscayne, Florida. Harvey, J. B. J., Rodriguez, R. and M. Hoy. A molecular diagnostic approach to the detection and management of marine invasive species from ballast water.
2005 10th Annual National Hispanic Sustainable Energy and Environmental Conference, Seattle, Washington. Workshop Speaker: Water is life: Preserving and managing this vital resource for the future.
2005 August 9 Meeting of the Puget Sound Action Team (PSAT), Washington State Ballast Water Work Group, Marrowstone Marine Field Station, Nordland, Washington. Harvey, J. B. J., Rodriguez, R. and M. Hoy. Using molecular diagnostic tools for ballast water management and monitoring of invasive species in Puget Sound.
2005 Puget Sound Georgia Basin Research Conference, Seattle, Washington. Harvey, J. B. J., Rodriguez, R., Hoy, M., Redman, R. and N. Elder. Development of molecular diagnostic tools to assess the introduction, establishment and ecology of invasive species in Puget Sound.
2002 Annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America (PSA) in conjunction with the Botanical Society of America (BSA), Madison, Wisconsin. Harvey, J. B. J. and L. J. Goff. Intraspecific genetic variation in H. irritans, a fungal endosymbiont of marine brown algae on the North American Pacific coast.
2002 Annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America (PSA) in conjunction with the Botanical Society of America (BSA), Madison, Wisconsin. Harvey, J. B. J. and L. J. Goff. 18S based taxonomy and intraspecific ITS sequence variation in the marine fungal endosymbiont Haloguignardia irritans infecting Cystoseira osmundacea along the Californian coast.
1999 XVI International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, Missouri. Hofstra, T. S. and J. B. J. Harvey. Amplification and sequencing of eubacterial 16S rDNA from wetwood of black cottonwood.
PublicationsHarvey, J. B. J., Ryan, J. P., Marin III, R., Preston, C. M., Alvarado, N., Scholin, C. A. and Vrijenhoek, R. C. (2011). Robotic sampling, in situ monitoring and molecular detection of marine zooplankton. Journal of Experimental Molecular Biology and Ecology 413: 60–70
Lundsten, L., Schlining, K. L., Frasier, K., Johnson, S. B., Kuhnz, L. A., Harvey, J. B. J., Clague, G. and R. C. Vrijenhoek (2010). Time-series analysis of six whale fall communities in Monterey Bay, California, USA. Deep Sea Research I.
Ryan, J. P., Johnson, S. B., Sherman, A., Rajan, K., Py, F., Thomas, H., Harvey, J. B. J., Bird, L., Paduan, J. D. and R. C. Vrijenhoek 2010. Mobile autonomous process sampling within coastal ocean observing systems. Limnology and Oceanography Methods 8: 394-402.
Harvey, J. B. J. and L. J. Goff 2010. Genetic covariation of the marine fungal symbiont Haloguignardia irritans (Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina) with its algal hosts Cystoseira and Halidrys (Phaeophyceae, Fucales) along the west coast of North America. Fungal Biology 114: 82-95.
Harvey, J. B. J., Hoy, M. S., Rodriguez, R., 2009. Molecular detection of native and invasive marine invertebrate larvae present in ballast and open water environmental samples collected in Puget Sound. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 369: 93-99.
Harvey, J. B. J. and Goff, L. J. 2006. A reassessment of species boundaries in Cystoseira and Halidrys (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) along the North American west coast. Journal of Phycology 42: 707-720.