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  • Director of Environmental Studies | Environmental Studies | behrenmd@plu.edu | 253-535-7565 | My teaching activities focus primarily on ecology and animal diversity.

    Fisheries and Marine Biology, Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo, 1996 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Marine Ecology Disease Ecology Biogeography Selected Presentations 10th International Larval Biology Symposium, Determining distribution and size of larval Pacific geoduck clams (Panopea generosa) in Puget Sound (Washington, USA) using a novel tracking approach, Berkeley, CA (2012) National Shellfisheries Association Annual Meeting, Novel tracking technique indicates importance of rare events driving larval

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  • Professor of Biology | Department of Biology | behrenmd@plu.edu | 253-535-7565 | My teaching activities focus primarily on ecology and animal diversity.

    Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005 M.A., Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003 B.S., Biological Sciences: Concentration in Fisheries and Marine Biology, Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo, 1996 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Marine Ecology Disease Ecology Biogeography Selected Presentations 10th International Larval Biology Symposium, Determining distribution and size of larval Pacific geoduck clams (Panopea generosa) in Puget Sound

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  • Students are encouraged to do research with a faculty member during their undergraduate experience at PLU.

    biotechnological significance. As part of our microbiology course, PLU students and I examine microbial communities in various soils collected from the Pacific Northwest. Because only 1% or less of Earth’s bacteria has been successfully cultured in the laboratory, we compare culture-dependent and culture-independent techniques, including many molecular tools, to assess the diversity of various environmental niches. Mike Behrens My research interests include ecology and biogeography, primarily in aquatic

  • marine and freshwater systems. My teaching in the area of animal diversity includes general coverage for lower division students and invertebrate zoology. I have the pleasure of teaching both in the Pacific Northwest and the Caribbean. My research interests include ecology and biogeography, primarily in aquatic systems. Much of my past research has focused on interactions between herbivores and algae in marine systems. This has included studies of geographical gradients of herbivorous fish diversity