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Christopher B. Wall              
  contact:  cbwall [at] ucsd.edu 
  ​citations: 715         h-index: 15       i10-index: 17         
 
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
  - Climate change, environmental stress, trophic ecology
 -  Marine and freshwater ecology
  - Stable isotope biogeochemistry and nutritional plasticity
  - Nutrient fluxes in host-symbiont interactions
  - Microbial ecology and hosts-associated microbiomes

EDUCATION
 Ph.D.      Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2019)
 ​M.Sc.      Biology, California State University Northridge (2010)
 B.Sc.       Biology, minor Chemistry, University of North Texas (2008)
 A.Sc.       Biology, North Lake College (2005)

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Research
 2021 –            Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, San Diego
 2021 –            Affiliate Researcher, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Department of Earth Sciences  
 2019 – 2021  Postdoctoral Researcher Pacific Biosciences Research Center, UH-Mānoa
 2016               Denise B. Evans Research Fellow in Oceanographic Research, UH-Mānoa
 2015 – 2019   Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) STAR Research Fellow, UH-Mānoa

Teaching
 2022 –            Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, National University
 2021               Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies, Cal State Univ, Dominguez Hills
 2013 –            Adjunct Professor, Life Sciences Department, Santa Monica College

PUBLICATIONS
Published manuscripts
25. Khen A, Wall CB, Smith JE. (2023) Standardization of coral bleaching measurements highlights the variability in genus,
      morphology, and region-specific responses. PeerJ  11:e16100. pdf link
24. Mannochio-Russo H, Swift SIO, Nakayama K, Wall CB, Gentry EC, Panitchpakdi M, Caraballo Rodriguez AM, Aron AT,
       Petras D, Dorrestein K, Dorrestein T, Williams TM, Nalley E, Altman-Kurosaki NT, Martinelli M, Kuwabara J, Darcy JL,
       Bolzani VS, Kelly LW, Mora C, Yew J, Amend AS, Hynson NA, Dorrestein PC, Nelson CE. (2023) Association networks
       of microbiomes and metabolomes among dominant coral reef primary producer holobionts illustrate a potential role
       for immunolipids in marine symbioses. Communications Biology 6, 896. pdf link
23.  Wall CB, Swift SIO, D’Antonio CM, Gebauer G, Hynson NA. (2023) Isoscapes of remnant and restored Hawaiian
        montane forests reveal differences in biological nitrogen fixation and carbon inputs. PeerJ 11:e15468. pdf link
22.  Kajihara KT*, Egan CP, Swift SOI, Wall CB, Muir CD, Hynson NA. Core arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are predicted by
        a high abundance-occupancy relationship and host specialists are rare and geographically structured.
        New Phytologist. 234:1464–1476. pdf link
21.  Wall CB, Wallsgrove, NJ, Gates RD, Popp BN. Amino acid δ13C and δ15N analyses reveal distinct species-specific
        patterns of trophic plasticity in a marine symbiosis. Limnology and Oceanography 66:2033–2050 ​pdf link
20.  Wall CB, Ricci CA, Wen AD*, Ledbetter BE, Klinger DE, Mydlarz LD, Gates RD, Putnam HM. Shifting baselines:
       Physiological legacies contribute to the response of reef corals to frequent heatwaves
       heat waves. Functional Ecology 35:1366–1378. pdf link
19.  Bernard J, Wall CB, Constantini MS, Rollins RL, Atkins ML, Cabrera FP, et al.,.. Amend AS (2020)
       Fungal and bacterial communities have contrasting compositional patterns on plant tissues over a
       steep environmental gradient in a tropical forest. ISME J. pdf link
18.  Wall CB, Egan C, Swift S, Hynson NA (2020) Three decades post reforestation has not led to the
       reassembly of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities associated with remnant primary forests.
       Molecular Ecology 29:4234–4247 pdf link
17.  Mason RAB, Wall CB, Cunning R, Dove S, Gates RD (2020) High light alongside elevated pCO2 alleviates thermal
        depression of photosynthesis in a hard coral (Pocillopora acuta). Journal of Experimental
        Biology 223, jeb223198 pdf link
16.  Kitchen RM*, Piscetta M*, Lenz EA, de Souza MR, Schar D, Gates RD, Wall CB (2020) Symbiont
       transmission and reproductive mode influence responses of three Hawaiian coral larvae to
       elevated temperature and nutrients. Coral Reefs 39:419–431 pdf link
15.  Wall CB, Kaluhiokalani M*, Popp BN, Donahue MJ, Gates RD (2020) Divergent symbiont
       communities determine the physiology and nutrition of a reef coral across a light-availability
       gradient. The ISME Journal 14:945–958 pdf link
14.  Shih JL, Selph KE, Wall CB, Wallsgrove NJ, Lesser MP, Popp BN (2020) Trophic ecology of the
       tropical Pacific sponge Mycale grandis inferred from amino acid compound specific isotopic analyses.
       Microbial Ecology 79:495–510 pdf link
13.  Wall CB, Ritson-Williams R, Popp BN, Gates RD (2019) Spatial variation in the biochemical and
       isotopic composition of corals during bleaching and recovery. Limnology and Oceanography 64:
       2011-2028. pdf link
12.  Neilson BJ, Wall CB, Mancini FT, Gewecke CA (2018). Herbivore biocontrol and manual removal
        successfully reduce invasive macroalgae on coral reefs. PeerJ 6: e5332 pdf link
11.  Wall CB, Ricci CA, Foulds GE, Mydlarz LD, Gates RD, Putnam HM (2018)  The effects of environmental
       history and thermal stress on coral physiology and immunity. Marine Biology 165:56-71  pdf link
10.  Innis T, Cunning R, Ritson-Williams R, Wall CB, Gates RD (2018) Coral color and depth drive symbiosis
       ecology of Montipora capitata in Kāne‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. Coral Reefs 37:423-430  pdf link
9.   Wall CB, Mason RA, Ellis WR, Cunning R, Gates RD (2017) Elevated pCO2 affects tissue biomass composition,
       but not calcification, in a reef coral under two light regimes. Royal Society Open Science. 4:170683  pdf link
8.   Donovan MK, Friedlander AM, Usseglio P, Goodell W, Iglesias I, Schemmel EM, Stamoulis K, Filous A,
      Giddens J, Kamikawa K, Koike H, McCoy K, Wall CB (2016) Effects of gear restriction on the abundance of juvenile
      fishes along sandy beaches in Hawai‘i. PLoS ONE 11:e0155221  pdf link
7.    Wall CB, Stevens KJ.  Assessing wetland mitigation efforts using standing vegetation and seed bank community
       structure in neighboring natural and compensatory wetlands (2015) Wetlands Ecology and Management 23:149-166 
       pdf link
6.   Edmunds PJ, Burgess SC, Putnam HM, Baskett ML, Bramanti L, Fabina NS, Han X, Lesser MP, Wall CB,
      Yost DM, Gates RD (2014) Evaluating the causal basis of ecological success within the Scleractinia: An integral
      projection model approach. Marine Biology 161:2719-2734  pdf link
5.   Edmunds PJ, Wall CB (2014) Evidence that high pCO2 affects protein metabolism in tropical reef corals.
      Biological Bulletin 227:68-77  pdf link
4.   Wall CB, Fan T, Edmunds PJ (2014)  Ocean acidification has no effect on thermal bleaching in the coral
      Seriatopora caliendrum. Coral Reefs 33:119-130  pdf link
3.   Wall CB, Edmunds PJ.  In situ effects of low pH and elevated HCO3- on juvenile Porites spp. in Moorea,
      French Polynesia (2013) Biological Bulletin 225:92-101  pdf link
2.   Cumbo VR, Edmunds PJ, Wall CB, Fan T-Y (2013) Brooded coral larvae differ in their response to high 
       temperature and elevated pCO2 depending on the day of release. Marine Biology 160:2903-2917  pdf link
1.   Stevens KJ, Wall CB, Janssen JA (2011) Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on seedling growth and
      development of two wetland plants, Bidens frondosa L., and Eclipta prostrata (L.) L., grown under three levels
      of water availability. Mycorrhiza 21:279-288  pdf link

Theses
2.   Wall CB (2019) Environmental and biological effects on nutritional mode and resource partitioning
       in scleractinian corals. Ph.D., Dissertation, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. pdf link
1.   Wall CB (2013)  Effects of temperature and ocean acidification on juvenile scleractinian corals (2012)
      MSc Thesis, Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge   pdf link

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
 2021 –                  Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California San Diego
 2019 – 2021        Postdoctoral Researcher, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, UH Mānoa 
 2015                     Division of Land and Natural Resources
 2015                     National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Rapid Assessment and
                               Monitoring Program research cruise Papahānaumokuākea Marine National
                               Monument; NOAA Research Vessel, Hi‘ialakai; Chief Scientist: Scott Godwin
 2013 – 2019         Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, Dr. Ruth Gates Laboratory
 2010 – 2012         Edmunds Polyp Laboratory, Dr. Peter Edmunds
 2009 – 2010         Laboratory for Marine Conservation Physiology; Dr. Ione Hunt von Herbing
 2008 – 2010         Wetland Ecology Research Group; Dr. Kevin Stevens; University of North Texas
 2007 – 2008         Dr. Kevin Stevens; undergraduate research; University of North Texas
 2005                      Hawaiian Field Studies Program; North Lake College

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructorships
 2022 –                  Adjunct faculty: National University, San Diego, CA
 2021 –                  Adjunct faculty: Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Cal State Univ., Dominguez Hills
 2013 –                  Adjunct faculty: College of Life Sciences, Santa Monica College
 2018 – 2019        Associate Teaching assistant: Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
 2017 – 2018        Teaching assistant: Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
 2013 – 2016        Teaching assistant: Department of Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
 2005                     Teaching assistant: Hawaiian Field Studies, North Lake College
 2003 – 2008        Teaching assistant: North Lake College, Science Center
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