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Erik Cordes

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Biology

      • Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BIOL 1111

Introduction to Organismal Biology

Undergraduate

BIOL 8250

Mutualistic symbiosis

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Pereira, O., Gonzalez, J., Mendoza, G., Le, J., Coscino, C., Lee, R., Cortés, J., Cordes, E., & Levin, L. (2021). The dynamic influence of methane seepage on macrofauna inhabiting authigenic carbonates. Ecosphere, 12(10). doi: 10.1002/ecs2.3744.

  • Montseny, M., Linares, C., Carreiro-Silva, M., Henry, L., Billett, D., Cordes, E., Smith, C., Papadopoulou, N., Bilan, M., Girard, F., Burdett, H., Larsson, A., Strömberg, S., Viladrich, N., Barry, J., Baena, P., Godinho, A., Grinyó, J., Santín, A., Morato, T., Sweetman, A., Gili, J., & Gori, A. (2021). Active Ecological Restoration of Cold-Water Corals: Techniques, Challenges, Costs and Future Directions. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.621151.

  • Ashford, O., Guan, S., Capone, D., Rigney, K., Rowley, K., Cordes, E., Cortés, J., Rouse, G., Mendoza, G., Sweetman, A., & Levin, L. (2021). Relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning proxies strengthen when approaching chemosynthetic deep-sea methane seeps. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1957). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0950.

  • Ashford, O., Guan, S., Capone, D., Rigney, K., Rowley, K., Orphan, V., Mullin, S., Dawson, K., Cortés, J., Rouse, G., Mendoza, G., Lee, R., Cordes, E., & Levin, L. (2021). A chemosynthetic ecotone—“chemotone”—in the sediments surrounding deep-sea methane seeps. Limnology and Oceanography, 66(5), 1687-1702. doi: 10.1002/lno.11713.

  • DeLeo, D., Glazier, A., Herrera, S., Barkman, A., & Cordes, E. (2021). Transcriptomic Responses of Deep-Sea Corals Experimentally Exposed to Crude Oil and Dispersant. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.649909.

  • Morato, T., Pham, C., Fauconnet, L., Taranto, G., Chimienti, G., Cordes, E., Dominguez-Carrió, C., Muñoz, P.D., Egilsdottir, H., González-Irusta, J., Grehan, A., Hebbeln, D., Henry, L., Kazanidis, G., Kenchington, E., Menot, L., Molodtsova, T., Orejas, C., Ramiro-Sánchez, B., Ramos, M., Roberts, J., Rodrigues, L., Ross, S., Rueda, J., Sacau, M., Stirling, D., & Carreiro-Silva, M. (2021). North Atlantic Basin-Scale Multi-Criteria Assessment Database to Inform Effective Management and Protection of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.637078.

  • Gauthier, A., Chandler, C., Poli, V., Gardner, F., Tekiau, A., Smith, R., Bonham, K., Cordes, E., Shank, T., Zanoni, I., Goodlett, D., Biller, S., Ernst, R., Rotjan, R., & Kagan, J. (2021). Deep-sea microbes as tools to refine the rules of innate immune pattern recognition. Science Immunology, 6(57). doi: 10.1126/SCIIMMUNOL.ABE0531.

  • Howell, K., Hilário, A., Allcock, A., Bailey, D., Baker, M., Clark, M., Colaço, A., Copley, J., Cordes, E., Danovaro, R., Dissanayake, A., Escobar, E., Esquete, P., Gallagher, A., Gates, A., Gaudron, S., German, C., Gjerde, K., Higgs, N., Bris, N.L., Levin, L., Manea, E., McClain, C., Menot, L., Mestre, N., Metaxas, A., Milligan, R., Muthumbi, A., Narayanaswamy, B., Ramalho, S., Ramirez-Llodra, E., Robson, L., Rogers, A., Sellanes, J., Sigwart, J., Sink, K., Snelgrove, P., Stefanoudis, P., Sumida, P., Taylor, M., Thurber, A., Vieira, R., Watanabe, H., Woodall, L., & Xavier, J. (2021). A decade to study deep-sea life. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5(3), 265-267. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-01352-5.

  • Halanych, K., Ainsworth, C., Cordes, E., Dodge, R., Huettel, M., Mendelssohn, I., Murawski, S., Paris-Limouzy, C., Schwing, P., Shaw, R., & Sutton, T. (2021). Effects of petroleum by-products and dispersants on ecosystems. Oceanography, 34(1), 152-163. doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2021.123.

  • Weinnig, A., Gómez, C., Hallaj, A., & Cordes, E. (2020). Cold-water coral (Lophelia pertusa) response to multiple stressors: High temperature affects recovery from short-term pollution exposure. Scientific Reports, 10(1). doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-58556-9.

  • Howell, K., Hilário, A., Allcock, A., Bailey, D., Baker, M., Clark, M., Colaço, A., Copley, J., Cordes, E., Danovaro, R., Dissanayake, A., Escobar, E., Esquete, P., Gallagher, A., Gates, A., Gaudron, S., German, C., Gjerde, K., Higgs, N., Bris, N.L., Levin, L., Manea, E., McClain, C., Menot, L., Mestre, N., Metaxas, A., Milligan, R., Muthumbi, A., Narayanaswamy, B., Ramalho, S., Ramirez-Llodra, E., Robson, L., Rogers, A., Sellanes, J., Sigwart, J., Sink, K., Snelgrove, P., Stefanoudis, P., Sumida, P., Taylor, M., Thurber, A., Vieira, R., Watanabe, H., Woodall, L., & Xavier, J. (2020). A Blueprint for an Inclusive, Global Deep-Sea Ocean Decade Field Program. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.584861.

  • Rojas-Jimenez, K., Grossart, H., Cordes, E., & Cortés, J. (2020). Fungal Communities in Sediments Along a Depth Gradient in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.575207.

  • Schwing, P., Montagna, P., Joye, S., Paris, C., Cordes, E., McClain, C., Kilborn, J., & Murawski, S. (2020). A Synthesis of Deep Benthic Faunal Impacts and Resilience Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.560012.

  • Peterson, C., Franklin, K., & Cordes, E. (2020). Connectivity corridor conservation: A conceptual model for the restoration of a changing Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. Elementa, 8(1). doi: 10.1525/elementa.016.

  • Georgian, S., Kramer, K., Saunders, M., Shedd, W., Roberts, H., Lewis, C., Fisher, C., & Cordes, E. (2020). Habitat suitability modelling to predict the spatial distribution of cold-water coral communities affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Journal of Biogeography, 47(7), 1455-1466. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13844.

  • Glazier, A., Herrera, S., Weinnig, A., Kurman, M., Gómez, C., & Cordes, E. (2020). Regulation of ion transport and energy metabolism enables certain coral genotypes to maintain calcification under experimental ocean acidification. Molecular Ecology, 29(9), 1657-1673. doi: 10.1111/mec.15439.

  • Morato, T., González-Irusta, J., Dominguez-Carrió, C., Wei, C., Davies, A., Sweetman, A., Taranto, G., Beazley, L., García-Alegre, A., Grehan, A., Laffargue, P., Murillo, F., Sacau, M., Vaz, S., Kenchington, E., Arnaud-Haond, S., Callery, O., Chimienti, G., Cordes, E., Egilsdottir, H., Freiwald, A., Gasbarro, R., Gutiérrez-Zárate, C., Gianni, M., Gilkinson, K., Hayes, V.W., Hebbeln, D., Hedges, K., Henry, L., Johnson, D., Koen-Alonso, M., Lirette, C., Mastrototaro, F., Menot, L., Molodtsova, T., Muñoz, P.D., Orejas, C., Pennino, M., Puerta, P., Ragnarsson, S., Ramiro-Sánchez, B., Rice, J., Rivera, J., Roberts, J., Ross, S., Rueda, J., Sampaio, Ã., Snelgrove, P., Stirling, D., Treble, M., Urra, J., Vad, J., Oevelen, D.v., Watling, L., Walkusz, W., Wienberg, C., Woillez, M., Levin, L., & Carreiro-Silva, M. (2020). Climate-induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold-water corals and commercially important deep-sea fishes in the North Atlantic. Global Change Biology, 26(4), 2181-2202. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14996.

  • Goffredi, S., Tilic, E., Mullin, S., Dawson, K., Keller, A., Lee, R., Wu, F., Levin, L., Rouse, G., Cordes, E., & Orphan, V. (2020). Methanotrophic bacterial symbionts fuel dense populations of deep-sea feather duster worms (Sabellida, Annelida) and extend the spatial influence of methane seepage. Science Advances, 6(14). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay8562.

  • Auscavitch, S., Deere, M., Keller, A., Rotjan, R., Shank, T., & Cordes, E. (2020). Oceanographic Drivers of Deep-Sea Coral Species Distribution and Community Assembly on Seamounts, Islands, Atolls, and Reefs Within the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00042.

  • Auscavitch, S., Lunden, J., Barkman, A., Quattrini, A., Demopoulos, A., & Cordes, E. (2020). Distribution of deep-water scleractinian and stylasterid corals across abiotic environmental gradients on three seamounts in the Anegada Passage. PeerJ, 8. doi: 10.7717/peerj.9523.

  • Chapman, A., Beaulieu, S., Colaço, A., Gebruk, A., Hilario, A., Kihara, T., Ramirez-Llodra, E., Sarrazin, J., Tunnicliffe, V., Amon, D., Baker, M., Boschen-Rose, R., Chen, C., Cooper, I., Copley, J., Corbari, L., Cordes, E., Cuvelier, D., Duperron, S., Preez, C.D., Gollner, S., Horton, T., Hourdez, S., Krylova, E., Linse, K., LokaBharathi, P., Marsh, L., Matabos, M., Mills, S., Mullineaux, L., Rapp, H., Reid, W., Rybakova, E., Tresa, T., Southgate, S., Stöhr, S., Turner, P., Watanabe, H., Yasuhara, M., & Bates, A. (2019). sFDvent: A global trait database for deep-sea hydrothermal-vent fauna. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28(11), 1538-1551. doi: 10.1111/geb.12975.

  • Breedy, O., Rouse, G., Stabbins, A., Cortés, J., & Cordes, E. (2019). New records of Swiftia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Octocorallia) from off the Pacific Costa Rican margin, including a new species from methane seeps. Zootaxa, 4671(3), 407-419. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4671.3.6.

  • Cordes, E., Demopoulos, A., Rasser, M., & Adams, C. DEEP SEARCH: Deep Sea Exploration to Advance Research on Coral/Canyon/Cold Seep Habitats. OCEANOGRAPHY, 32(1), 104-105. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000471762700035&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=abcd71df5a6dac31fd219478b0a9c638.

  • Roman, C., Warren, J., Cordes, E., & Seibel, B. Midwater Acoustic Echosounding with the Wire Flyer Towed Profiling Vehicle. OCEANOGRAPHY, 32(1), 126-126. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000471762700049&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=abcd71df5a6dac31fd219478b0a9c638.

  • Farfan, G., Cordes, E., Waller, R., DeCarlo, T., & Hansel, C. (2018). Mineralogy of deep-sea coral aragonites as a function of aragonite saturation state. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5(DEC). doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00473.

  • Demopoulos, A., Bourque, J., Durkin, A., & Cordes, E. (2018). The influence of seep habitats on sediment macrofaunal biodiversity and functional traits. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 142, 77-93. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2018.10.004.

  • DeLeo, D., Herrera, S., Lengyel, S., Quattrini, A., Kulathinal, R., & Cordes, E. (2018). Gene expression profiling reveals deep-sea coral response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Molecular Ecology, 27(20), 4066-4077. doi: 10.1111/mec.14847.

  • Vogt, D., Becker, K., Phillips, B., Graule, M., Rotjan, R., Shank, T., Cordes, E., Wood, R., & Gruber, D. (2018). Shipboard design and fabrication of custom 3D-printed soft robotic manipulators for the investigation of delicate deep-sea organisms. PLoS ONE, 13(8). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200386.

  • Etnoyer, P., Wagner, D., Fowle, H., Poti, M., Kinlan, B., Georgian, S., & Cordes, E. (2018). Models of habitat suitability, size, and age-class structure for the deep-sea black coral Leiopathes glaberrima in the Gulf of Mexico. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 150, 218-228. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2017.10.008.

  • Weinnig, A., Deegan, D., & Cordes, E. Physiological Response of a Cold-Water Coral (Lophelia pertusa) to the Combined Stressors of Climate Change and Hydrocarbon Influence. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, 58, E248-E248. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000429309603111&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=abcd71df5a6dac31fd219478b0a9c638.

  • Cordes, E., Demopoulos, A.W., Boland, G., & Adams, C. DEEP SEARCH: Deep Sea Exploration to Advance Research on Coral/Canyon/Cold Seep Habitats. OCEANOGRAPHY, 31(1), 97-98. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000442222000043&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=abcd71df5a6dac31fd219478b0a9c638.

  • Cordes, E. & Levin, L. (2018). Exploration before exploitation. Science, 359(6377), 719. doi: 10.1126/science.aat2637.

  • Gómez, C., Wickes, L., Deegan, D., Etnoyer, P., & Cordes, E. (2018). Growth and feeding of deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa from the California margin under simulated ocean acidification conditions. PeerJ, 2018(9). doi: 10.7717/peerj.5671.

  • Cordes, E. (2018). Environmental impacts of the deep-water oil and gas industry. Renewable Resources Journal, 32(4), 8-19.

  • Durkin, A., Fisher, C., & Cordes, E. (2017). Extreme longevity in a deep-sea vestimentiferan tubeworm and its implications for the evolution of life history strategies. Die Naturwissenschaften, 104(7-8), 63. doi: 10.1007/s00114-017-1479-z.

  • Kurman, M., Gómez, C., Georgian, S., Lunden, J., & Cordes, E. (2017). Intra-specific variation reveals potential for adaptation to ocean acidification in a cold-water coral from the Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers in Marine Science, 4(MAY). doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00111.

  • Cordes, E. (2017). Cold-Water Corals. In Array, The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment World Ocean Assessment I. Cambridge University Press.

  • Cordes, E. (2017). Hydrothermal Vents and Cold Seeps. In Array, The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment World Ocean Assessment I. Cambridge University Press.

  • Quattrini, A., Gómez, C., & Cordes, E. (2017). Environmental filtering and neutral processes shape octocoral community assembly in the deep sea. Oecologia, 183(1), 221-236. doi: 10.1007/s00442-016-3765-4.