Mailing and Contact Information: 1235 Energy, Coast & Environment Building Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA - 70803 Tel: 225-578-0029 Fax: 225-578-6326 E-mail: sbargu@lsu.edu	Sibel Bargu Ates Assistant Professor

Education::

Ph.D., 1998 - 2001 Ocean Sciences Department, University of California at Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
M.S., 1996-1998 Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
Masters Program, 1995 Biology Department, Higher Technology Institute of Gebze, TURKEY
B.S., 1990-1994 Biology Department, Istanbul University, TURKEY

Grants:

• 2008-2009 National Science Foundation – Mississippi River flood of 2008: flood- pulsed experiments of coastal ecosystem dynamics (PI J.R. White; Co-PIs S. Bargu Ates, R.W. Fulweiler, S. Green, and C. Li)


• 2007-2009 Louisiana Sea Grant, NOAA – The potential effect of environmental stressors on the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia pseudodelicatissima and Cyanobacteria – common HAB species in Louisiana (PI S. Bargu Ates; Co-PIs E.A. Laws and N. Rabalais)
  
• 2007-2010 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – A proposed northern Gulf of Mexico cooperative institute: public health and stressor (PI S. Bargu, Co-PIs B. Fry, A. Hou, and R.E. Turner)
  
• 2007-2010 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – A proposed northern Gulf of Mexico cooperative institute: trophic linkages and biomass production in estuarine ecosystems (PI M. Sutor, Co-PIs S. Bargu, R. Shaw, and J. Cowan)
  
• 2007-2010 Louisiana Board of Regents – Distribution and potential toxicity of the diatom Pseduo-nitzschia spp. in Mississippi River influenced Louisiana coastal waters. (PI S. Bargu, Co-PI N. Rabalais)


• 2007 Louisiana Sea Grant – Isolation and cultivation of potentially toxic Pseudo-nitzschia pseudodelicatissima and Lingulodinium polyedra from the northern Gulf of Mexico coastal waters
  
• 2007-2008 National Science Foundation – Collaborative research SGER: domoic acid toxins in the oceanic north Pacific in iron enrichment studies. (PI S Bargu, Co-PI M. Silver)
  
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – The ecosystem data assembly center (EDAC), the southern phytoplankton monitoring network (SEPMN). (PI S. Bargu).
  
• 2007 LSU Council of Research Summer Stipend – The role of marine snow in environmental persistence and survival of Vibrio cholerae
  

Recent Publications:

1. Goldstein, T., T.S. Zabka, R.L. DeLong, E.A. Wheeler, G. Ylitalo, S. Bargu, M. Silver, T. Leighfield, F. Van Dolah, G. Langlois, I. Sidor, J.L. Dunn and F.M.D. Gulland. in review. The role of domoic acid in abortion and premature parturition of California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) on San Miguel Island, California. Journal of Wildlife Diseases.
   
2. Bargu, S., C. Powell, Z. Wang, G. Doucette, and M.W. Silver. 2008. Note on the occurrence of Pseudo-nitzschia australis and domoic acid in squid from Monterey Bay, California (USA). Harmful Algae. Harmful Algae 7(1):45-51.
   
3. Goldstein, T., J.A.K. Mazet, T.S. Zabka, G. Langlois, K.M. Colegrove, M. Silver, S. Bargu, F. Van Dolah, T. Leighfield, P.A. Conrad, J. Barakos, D.C. Williams, S. Dennison, M.A. Haulena, and F.M.D. Gulland. 2007. Novel symptomatology and changing epidemiology of domoic acid toxicosis in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus): an increasing risk to marine mannals health. Proc. R. Soc. B., 10.1098/rsph.2007.1221.
   
4. Bargu, S., K. Lefebvre, and M.W. Silver. 2006. Dissolved domoic acid reduces the grazing rate in krill Euphausia pacifica. Marine Ecology Progress Series 312:169-175.
   
5. Bargu, S. and M. Silver. 2003. Field evidence of krill grazing on the toxic diatom genus Pseudonitzschia in Monterey Bay, California. Bulletin of Marine Science 72:629- 638.
   
6. Bargu, S., B. Marinovic, S. Mansergy, and M. Silver. 2003. Feeding responses to krill to the toxin-producing diatom Pseudo-nitzschia. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 284:87-104.
   
7. Bargu, S., T. Koray, and N. Lundholm. 2002. First report of Pseudo-nitzschia calliantha Lundholm, Moestrup & Hasle 2003, a new potentially toxic species for Turkish coasts. E.U. Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 19(3-4):479-483.
   
8. Bargu, S. 2002. An alternative preparation method for studying diatom frustules using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). E.U. Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences 19(1-2):183-187.
   
9. Bargu, S., C. Powell, S. Coale, M. Busman, G. Doucette, and M. Silver. 2002. Krill: a potential vector for domoic acid in marine food webs. Marine Ecology Progress Series 237:209-216.
   
10. Lefebvre, K.A., S. Bargu, T. Kieckhefer, and M.W. Silver. 2002. From sanddabs to blue whales: the pervasiveness of domoic acid. Toxicon 40:971-977.
    

Courses Taught:

OCS 2008 – Introduction to Marine Processes
OCS 4001 – Phytoplankton Ecology
OCS 7001 – Harmful Algal Blooms