Biology

Marc Weissburg, Associate Professor

Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1990
marc.weissburg@biology.gatech.edu
Phone: (404) 894-8433
Fax: (404) 894-0519
Office: Cherry Merson 329,326

Publications

Dickman, B.D., D.R. Webster, J. L. Page and M.J. Weissburg. 2009. Three-dimensional odorant concentration measurements around actively tracking blue crabs Limnol. Oceanogr. Methods 7:96–108. (PDF).

Ferner, M.C. and M.J. Weissburg. 2009. Physical features modify predation intensity by modulating olfactory signals. Marine Ecol Prog. Ser. 374:13-22. (PDF)

Webster D.R. and M.J. Weissburg. 2009. The hydrodynamics of chemical cues among aquatic organisms. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 41: 73-90. (PDF)

Smee, D.L. and M.J. Weissburg. 2008. Heightened prey responses in risky habitats: predation pressure increases prey sensitivity to predation risk. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 363:39-50. (PDF)

Horner, A.J., M.J. Weissburg and C.D. Derby. 2008. The olfactory pathway mediates sheltering behavior of Caribbean spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus, to conspecific urine signals. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 194:243–253 (PDF)

Smee, D.L., M.C. Ferner and M.J. Weissburg. 2008. Environmental conditions alter prey reactions to risk and the scales of nonlethal predator effects in natural systems. Oecologia 156: 399-409. (PDF)

Jackson, J.L., S. Rahman, D.R. Webster and M.J. Weissburg. 2007. Behavioral ramifications of bed roughness effects on boundary layer turbulence: a case study of the odor tracking behavior of blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). Limnology and Oceanography 52:1883-1897 (PDF)

Woodson, C.B., D.R. Webster M.J. Weissburg, and J. Yen. 2007. The prevalence and implications of copepod behavioral responses to oceanographic structure. Integrative and Comparative Biology 47: 831-846. (PDF)

Woodson, C.B., D.R. Webster, M.J. Weissburg, and J. Yen. 2007. Environmental gradients elicit behavioral responses in the calanoid copepod, Temora longicornis: Ecological implications of oceanographic structure. Marine Ecology Progress Series 330:163-177 (PDF)

Fields, D.M., M.J. Weissburg, and H.I. Browman. 2007. Chemoreception in the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis): an electrophysiology approach. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 78: 161–168. (PDF)

Yen, J., M.J. Weissburg. 2007. Perspectives on Biologically-Inspired Design. J. Bioinspiration and Biomemetics. 2. DOI 10.1088/1748-3190/2/4/E01. (PDF)

Horner, A.J., S.P. Nickles, M.J. Weissburg, and C.D. Derby 2006. Source and specificity of chemical cues mediating shelter preference of Caribbean spiny lobsters. Biological Bulletin 211:128-139 (PDF)

Smee, D.L. and M.J. Weissburg . 2006. Hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) evaluate predation risk using chemical signals from predators and injured conspecifics. Journal of Chemical Ecology 32: 605-619. (PDF)

Smee, D.L. and M.J. Weissburg.  2006. Clamming up: environmental force diminish the perceptive ability of bivalve prey.  Ecology. 87: 1587­1598 (PDF)

Woodson, C.B., D.R. Webster, M.J. Weissburg, and J. Yen. Environmental gradients elicit behavioral responses in the calanoid copepod, Temora longicornis: Ecological implications of oceanographic structure. Limnol. Oceangr. 50: 1552-1564

Woodson, C.B., D.R. Webster M.J. Weissburg, and J. Yen. 2005. Response of copepods to physical gradients associated with structure in the open ocean. Limnol. Oceanogr. 50: 1552-1564 (PDF)

Fields, D.M. and M.J. Weissburg. 2005. Evolutionary and ecological significance of mechanosenor morphology: copepods as a model system. In, Weissburg, MJ and HI Browman (eds), Sensory Biology: Linking the internal and external ecologies of marine organisms.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 287: 269-274. (PDF)

Ferner, M.C., and Weissburg, M.J. 2005. Slow-moving predatory gastropods track prey odors in fast and turbulent flow. J Exp Biol 208: 809-819. (PDF)

Fields, D.M., and M.J. Weissburg. 2004. Rapid firing rates from mechanosensory neurons in copepod antennules. J. comp. Physiol. 190: 877-882. (PDF)

Horner, A.J., Weissburg, M.J, and C.D. Derby. 2004. Dual antennular chemosensory pathways can mediate orientation by Caribbean spiny lobsters in naturalistic flow conditions. J. exp. Biol. 207:3785-3796. (PDF)

Keller, T. and M.J. Weissburg. 2004.  The effects of odor flux and pulse rate on chemosensory tracking in turbulent odor plumes by the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus. Biol. Bull. 207:44-55. (PDF)

Keller, T.A., I. Powell, and M.J. Weissburg. 2003. The identity and role of olfactory appendages in chemically mediated orientation in blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 261:217-231. (PDF)

Weissburg, M.J., C.P James, D.L. Smee and D.R. Webster. 2003. Fluid mechanics produces conflicting constraints during olfactory navigation of blue crabs, Calinectes sapidus. J. exp. Biol. 206: 171-180. (PDF)

Weissburg, M.J. and D.B. Dusenbery. 2002. Behavioral observations and computer simulations of blue crab movement to a chemical source in controlled turbulent flow. J. exp. Biol. 205: 3387-3398. (PDF)

Weissburg, M.J, D.B. Dusenbery, H. Ishida, J. Janata, T. Keller, P.J.W. Roberts, D.R. Webster.  2002. A multidisciplinary study of spatial and temporal scales containing information in turbulent chemical plume tracking. J. Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 2:65-94. (invited paper). (PDF)

Weissburg, M.J., M.C. Ferner, D.P. Pisut, and D.L. Smee. 2002. The ecology of chemically-mediated prey perception. J. Chem. Ecol. 28:1933-1950 (invited paper). (PDF)

Fields, D.M., D.S. Shaeffer, M.J. Weissburg. 2002. Mechanical and neural responses from the mechanosensory hairs on the antennule of Gaussia princeps. Marine Ecol. Prog. Ser. 227: 173-186. (PDF)

Webster, D.R. and M.J. Weissburg. 2001. Chemosensory guidance cues in a turbulent chemical plume. Limnology and Oceanography 46:1034-1047. (PDF)

Weissburg, M.J.  2001. Sex, sensitivity, and second messengers: differential effect of cyclic nucleotide mediated inhibition in the chemosensory system of fiddler crabs. J. Comp. Physiol. A 187: 489-498.

Weissburg, M.J., C.D. Derby, O. Johnson, B.  Mcalvin, and J.M. Moffett, Jr. 2001. Transexual limb transplants in fiddler crabs and the expression of novel sensory capabilities. J. Comp. Neurology 44: 311-320.

Preston, B.L., T.W. Snell, D.M. Fields and M.J. Weissburg.  2001.  The effects of fluid motion  on toxicant sensitivity of the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus. Aquatic Toxicology 52:117-131.

Weissburg, M.J.  2000. The fluid dynamical context of chemosensory behavior. Biol. Bull. 198:188-202. (PDF)

Weissburg, M.J.  1999. Sex-specific tuning and dose – response functions in male and female fiddler crabs, Uca pugnax. J. Comp. Physiol. A  353:787-804.

Weissburg, M.J., M.H. Doall, J. Yen.  1998.  Following the invisible trail:  Kinematic analysis of mate tracking in the copepod Temora longicornis. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B. 353:701-712.

Yen, J., M.J. Weissburg, M.H. Doall.  1998.  The fluid physics of signal perception by mate  tracking copepods.  Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B. 353: 787-804.

Weissburg, M.J.  1997.  Chemo – and Mechanosensory orientation by crustaceans in laminar and turbulent flows:  From odor trails to vortex streets.  M. Lehrer, Ed.  Orientation and communication in Arthropods , Birkhauser.

Weissburg, M.J., J. Pearce, C.K. Govind, and C.D. Derby. 1996. Sexually dimorphic patterns of neural organization in the feeding appendages of fiddler crabs. Cell and Tissue Research 286:155-166. 

Weissburg, M.J. and C.D. Derby.  1995. Regulation of sex-specific feeding behavior in fiddler crabs: Physiological properties of chemoreceptor neurons in claws and legs of males and females. J. Comp. Physiol. A 176:513-526.   

Weissburg, M.J. and R.K Zimmer-Faust. 1994.  Odor plumes and how blue crabs use them to find prey.  J. exp. Biol. 197:349-375. (PDF)

Moore, P.A., M.J. Weissburg, R.K. Zimmer-Faust, J.M. Parrish, and G.A. Gerhardt.  1994. The spatial distribution of odors in simulated benthic boundary layer flows. J. Chemical  Ecology 20:255-279 .

Weissburg, M.J. and R.K. Zimmer-Faust. 1993. Life and death in moving fluids: Hydrodynamic effects on chemosensory-mediated predation.  Ecology 74:1428-1443. 

Weissburg, M.J. 1993. Sex and the single forager: Gender-specific energy maximizing strategies in the fiddler crab Uca pugnax.  Ecology 74:279-291.