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Education

D.Env. (Doctorate of Environmental Science and Engineering)
University of California, Los Angeles, 2000.
Dissertation: Assessing the Importance of Biological Attributes for Invasion Success.
Advisor: Richard F. Ambrose Ph.D.

M.A., Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995.

B.A., Biology, Earlham College, 1984.

Professional Experience

Research Scientist Jan 2006 - present
Marine Invasions Research Laboratory
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Assistant Director Jan 2003 - present
Marine Invasions Research Laboratory
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Ecologist Dec 2000 - Jan 2006
Marine Invasions Research Laboratory
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Program Coordinator, National Ballast Information Clearinghouse Feb 1998 - present
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

National Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellow Feb 1997 - Feb 1998
Office of United States Senator John Glenn

Graduate Researcher Jul 1993 - Feb 1997
Environmental Science and Engineering Program,
University of California, Los Angeles

Staff Research Associate II Jul 1990 - Sept 1992
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

Database Manager Sept 1988 - Jul 1990
Environmental Chemistry Division, Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA

Laboratory Technician Oct 1985 - Oct 1987
Department of Biology, Boston University

Field Research Assistant Summer 1985
Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest,
Department of Biology, Dartmouth College

Field Researcher Summers 1983, 1984
Department of Biology/Joseph Moore Museum, Earlham College

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant
Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, UCLA

Teaching Assistant
Biology Department, Earlham College

Publications/Technical Reports

Miller AW, Reynolds A, Sobrino C, and Riedel GF 2009. Shellfish Face Uncertain Future in High CO2 World: Influence of Acidification on Oyster Larvae Calcification and Growth in Estuaries. PLoS ONE 4(5): e5661. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005661.

Miller AW, Ruiz GM 2009. Differentiating Successful and Failed Invaders: Species Pools and the Importance of Defining Vector, Source and Recipient Regions. In: Rilov G and Crooks J eds. Biological Invasions in Marine Ecosystems: Ecological, Management, and Geographic Perspectives, Springer Verlag, pp. 153-170.

Miller AW, Ruiz GM, Minton MS, and RF Ambrose 2007. Differentiating successful and failed molluscan invaders in estuarine ecosystems. Marine Ecology Progress Series 332:41-51.

Ryan K and Miller AW 2007. Operation of the National Ballast Information Clearinghouse: A day in the life of a Ballast Water Report. United States Coast Guard Environmental Standards Update Newsletter, Summer 2007.

Gilborn A and Miller AW 2006. US Coast Guard and Smithsonian Institution work together to reduce risk of marine invasions. United States Coast Guard Environmental Standards Update Newsletter, Fall 2006.

Minton MS, Verling E, Miller AW and GM Ruiz 2005. Reducing propagule supply and coastal invasions via ships: effects of emerging strategies. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3(6):304-308.

Miller AW, Chang AL, Cosentino-Manning N and GM Ruiz 2004. A new record and eradication of the northern Atlantic alga Ascophyllum nodosum (Phaeophyceae) from San Francisco Bay, California, USA. Journal of Phycology 40(6):1028-1031.

Miller AW, Ruiz GM and K Lion K 2005. Status and trends of ballast water management in the United States: Second biennial report of the National Ballast Information Clearinghouse, 32 p. (In review).

Verling E, Ruiz GM, Smith LD, Galil B, Miller AW and KR Murphy 2005. Supply–side invasion ecology: characterizing propagule pressure in coastal ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. 272:1249-1257.

Hines AH, Miller AW, Ruiz GM and K Lion 2004. Estimating domestic and foreign ballast water as a vector for invasive species: Regional analysis for New England, northeast North America. Pp. 47-54 in Pederson, J. (editor). Exploring areas within the EEZ where ballast water ballast water exchange is environmentally and economically feasible. Proceedings of the Ballast Water Workshop, October 27-28, 2003. MIT Sea Grant College Program, Cambridge, MA.

Ruiz GM, Miller AW, Everett RA and BP Steves. Hull fouling as a vector for marine invasions: a biogeographical analysis of ship arrival patterns in the United States. (In preparation).

Miller AW, Hewitt CL and GM Ruiz 2002. Invasion success: does size really matter? Ecology Letters, 5:159-162.

Ruiz GM, Miller AW, Lion K, Steves, B, Arnwine A, Collinetti E and E Wells 2001. Status and trends of ballast water management in the United States: First biennial report of the National Ballast Information Clearinghouse, 45 p.

Miller AW, Ambrose RF and GM Ruiz. Analysis of ecological, biological, and biogeographical characteristics of marine molluscan invaders. (In preparation).

Ruiz GM, Miller AW, Everett RA and BP Steves. Hull fouling as a vector for marine invasions: a biogeographical analysis of ship arrival patterns in the United States. (In preparation).

Ruiz GM, Miller AW, Everett RA, Steves B, Lion K, Whitcraft C, Arnwine A, Collinetti E, Sigala M and D Lipski 2000. Results from the first year of data management and analysis: Shipping industry compliance with mandatory ballast water reporting requirements / shipping industry compliance with voluntary ballast water management guidelines. National Ballast Information Clearinghouse interim report to the U.S. Coast Guard. 30 p.

Miller AW 2000. Assessing the importance of biological attributes for invasion success: eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) introductions and associated molluscan invasions of Pacific and Atlantic coastal systems [dissertation]. Los Angeles (CA): University of California. 210 p. Available from: University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI; UMI Number 9993018.

Miller AW and RF Ambrose 2000. Sampling patchy distributions: comparison of sampling designs in rocky intertidal habitats. Marine Ecology Progress Series 196:1-14.

Miller AW, Ruiz GM, Takata L, Steves B and AH Hines 2000. Measuring ballast water delivery and management patterns in the United States: the National Ballast Information Clearinghouse and National Ballast Survey. In: Pederson, J, editor. Marine Bioinvasions: Proceedings of the First National Conference; Jan 24-27, 1999; Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Sea Grant College Program. P 303-315.

Ruiz GM, Miller AW, Takata, L and L Kurzava 1998. The National Ballast Information Clearinghouse: function, design, and implementation, Progress Report I. Report to U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Congress, 34 p.

Ruiz GM, Miller AW and WC Walton 1998. The bi-coastal invasion of North America by the European green crab: impacts and management strategies. Report to the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, 40p.

Miller AW 1997. Senator John Glenn’s floor speech introducing the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act of 1997 (S. 659). Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 105th Congress 143(51):S3735-S3736.

Miller AW and RF Ambrose 1994. Malibu Lagoon Birds. In: Ambrose RF, IW Suffet and SS Que Hee, Enhanced Environmental Monitoring Program at Malibu Creek and Malibu Lagoon, Report to Las Virgenes Municipal Water District.

Cuevas ME, W Miller and G Callard 1992. Sulfoconjugation of steroids and the vascular pathway of communication in dogfish testis. Journal of Experimental Zoology 264:119-129.

Miller AW and DP Young 1985. Breeding Bird Censuses. American Birds 39:112.

Miller AW 1984. Breeding Bird Censuses. American Birds 38:126-127.

Miller AW and DP Young 1984. New geographical distribution record for the stinkpot turtle, Sternotherus odoratus. Herpetological Review 15(3):77.

Presentations

Miller AW, Minton MS and GM Ruiz. Commercial Shipping and Invasion Opportunity in North America. Aquatic Invasive Species Mid-Atlantic Regional Workshop 2009 - Vector Management:  A Prevention Solution, Baltimore, MD, December 2, 2009.

Miller AW, Minton MS and GM Ruiz. Shipping in North America: Implications for Marine Bioinvasions. International Workshop on Marine Invasions.  Smithsonian Tropical Research Center, Panama City, Panama, November 16-18, 2009.

Miller AW. Measuring Calcification in Biological Experiments – Mollusks. OCB/ EPOCA Ocean Acidification Course. Woods Hole, MA, November 2-13, 2009.

Miller AW. Marine Invasions Research: Ships as Vectors. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Advisory Board Meeting, Edgewater, MD, October 23, 2009.

Miller AW. Shellfish Face Uncertain Future in High CO2 World: Influence of Acidification on Oyster Larvae Calcification and Growth in Estuaries. Virginia Institute of Marine Science Eastern Shore Laboratory, Wachapreague, VA, August 05, 2009.

Miller AW. Shellfish Face Uncertain Future in High CO2 World: Influence of Acidification on Oyster Larvae Calcification and Growth in Estuaries. Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, April 09, 2009.

Miller AW. CO2-induced acidification in estuaries: differential effects in larval oyster growth/ calcification. Distinguished Scholar Seminar Speaker, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, Oct 22, 2008.

Miller AW, Blakeslee A and GM Ruiz. Comparative demographic and genetic investigations of two cryptogenic snail populations in South Africa. Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, Sept 22, 2008.

Miller AW. The effects of estuarine acidification on C. virginica and C. ariakensis, Chesapeake Research Consortium Board Meeting, Edgewater, MD, June 25, 2008.

Miller AW and GM Ruiz. A scientific look at invasive species and ballast water management. Marine Log Global Greenship Conference and Expo, Washington, DC, Sept 20-21, 2007.

Miller AW. Marine Invasive Species, Shipping, Federal Legislation and Regulation. Howard University Teachers and Fellows Program, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, August 6, 2007.

Miller AW, Ruiz GM and I Davidson. Marine Invasive Species and Shipping - Their Importance for Antifouling Technologies. National Paint and Coatings Association: International Marine & Offshore Coatings Conference. Virginia Beach, VA, June 18-20, 2007.

Miller AW, Minton MS, Ryan K and GM Ruiz. Shipping vectors in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. Gulf of Mexico Marine Invasive Species Workshop. Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies and Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, February 26-27.

Lynne Fegley and Miller AW. Mitten crabs in Maryland? Response to a new potential invasive. Report to the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, Arlington, VA, November 7-9, 2006.

Miller AW and GM Ruiz. Marine Invasions Research at SERC: Ships as vectors. Womens' International Shipping and Trade Association, Washington D.C. Chapter, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD October 23, 2006.

Miller AW and P. Fofonoff. Web-based Nonindigenous Species Databases. Mid-Atlantic Regional Panel on Aquatic Invasive Species, Annapolis, MD, September 13-14, 2006.

Miller AW. Marine Invasions Research at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Global Invasions Research Coordination Network, 1st Annual Meeting, Fort Collins, CO, August 15-17, 2006.

Miller AW Invited lecture, Department of Biology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, April 6, 2006.

Miller AW Invited lecture, Environmental Sciences and Resources Program, Portland State University, Portland, OR, March 7, 2006.

Miller AW, Torchin M, Wells E, Altman I and GM Ruiz. Does Native Ecology Predict Invasion Ecology?  Comparative Demographics of Invertebrates across Coasts. Fourth International Marine Bioinvasions Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, August 24-26, 2005.

Miller AW. Regional Approaches to Invasive Species: Aquatic Bioinvasions Research and Policy Institute (PSU & SERC). Pacific Northwest Economic Region 15th Annual Summit, Seattle, WA, July 14-17, 2005.

Miller AW. Characterizing U.S. Ballast Delivery Patterns: Volumes, Time Constraints. Workshop for Evaluating Ballast Water Treatment Systems Onboard Ships: Technical and Scientific Approaches, Portland, OR, June 14-15, 2005.

Miller AW and GM Ruiz. Smithsonian Institution: NIS Activities, FY04. Report to the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, Arlington, VA, November 16-17, 2004.

Miller AW and GM Ruiz. Marine Invasions Prevention: a legislative overview. Teachers's Training Workshop, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, October 8, 2004.

Miller AW. The importance of biological invasion on molluscan ecology and biodiversity: a 21st century perspective. Plenary presentation, Ecology Symposium of the World Congress of Malacology, Perth, Western Australia, June 11-16, 2004.

Miller AW. Marine Invaders of North America: Pathways and Patterns. Evenings at Whitney Public Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the University of Florida Whitney Laboratory, Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina Sea Grant, Saint Augustine, Florida, June 12, 2003.

Miller AW, Ambrose RF and GM Ruiz. Predictors of Molluscan Invasion Success? - Analysis and Modeling of Commercial Oyster Transplants as a Vector for Marine Invaders. Third International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, March 16-19, 2003.

Miller AW, Fofonoff P, Smith N, Cowan S and GM Ruiz. Marine Invaders of Florida Coastal Waters: Current Investigations of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Invasive Species in Florida's Saltwater Systems: Where We Are and Where We're Going. Tampa Bay, Florida, November 5-6, 2002.

Miller AW. Commercial Shipping Patterns, Ballast Water Delivery, and Ballast Water Management in the United States: The National Ballast Information Clearinghouse. United States-Russia Invasive Species Workshop. Borok, Russia, August 27-31, 2001.

Miller AW. Ballast Water Exchange Efficiency. U. S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center Ballast Water Treatment Standards Workshop, Mystic, CT, April 17-19, 2001.

Collinetti E, Miller AW, Ruiz GM, Steves B and P. Fofonoff. SERC Marine Invasion Research Laboratory: Quantifying invasion patterns and processes (poster). Second International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions, New Orleans, LA, April 9-11, 2001.

Miller AW. Workshop for Preventing the Introduction and Spread of Aquatic Invasive Species in North America, Commission for Environmental Cooperation (invited participant), Montreal, Ontario, Canada, March 28-30, 2001.

Miller AW. Living Among Oysters – the Commercial Oyster Industry as a Vector for Molluscan Introductions: a Retrospective Analysis of Invasion Success and Failure. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 5-9, 2000.

Miller AW. Marine Invasions Biology at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Center for Marine Conservation Workshop, Virginia Beach, VA, May 16, 2000.

Miller AW. Progress Report on the National Ballast Information Clearinghouse. Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force Meeting, Arlington, VA, December 1, 1999.

Miller AW. Overview of current research on NIS and ballast water by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and the National Ballast Information Clearinghouse. Exotic Species Workgroup Meeting, U.S. Fish and Wildlife - Chesapeake Bay Field Office, Annapolis, MD, November 10, 1999.

Miller AW. Nonindigenous species in the Gulf of Mexico and in Ballast Water. Workshop on Invasive Species and Ballast Water Management in the Gulf of Mexico Region. Gulf of Mexico Program and Louisiana Sea Grant College, New Orleans, LA, October 1999.

Miller AW. Measuring Ballast Water Exchange Patterns: The National Ballast Survey (NABS). National Conference on Marine Bioinvasions, MIT Sea Grant College Program. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, January 24-27, 1999.

Miller AW. National Ballast Survey Training Session, U.S. Coast Guard and Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Yorktown, VA, January 13-14, 1999.

Miller AW. Ecological and Economic Impacts of Marine and Estuarine Invasive Species. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forum on Ecological Surveys of Aquatic Nuisance Species. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, April 20-21, 1998.

Miller AW et al. The USA National Ballast Information Clearinghouse. Joint Meeting of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea/Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission/International Maritime Organization, The Hague, The Netherlands, March 23-27, 1998.

Miller AW et al. Ballast Research at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Joint Meeting of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea/Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission/International Maritime Organization. The Hague, The Netherlands, March 23-27, 1998.

Miller AW. Ecological expertise on the Hill: Can ESA make it better? Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, NM, August 10-14, 1997.

Miller AW and RF Ambrose. Comparison of sampling design efficiency and effectiveness in rocky intertidal habitats of southern California. Western Society of Naturalists Annual Meeting. La Paz, Baja Mexico, January 9-11, 1997.

Competitive Grants and Contracts

National Ballast Information Clearinghouse, United States Coast Guard, 2006-2011. PIs: Gregory M. Ruiz and A. Whitman Miller; $6,056,177.

Climate Change in Chesapeake Bay: Acidification, Hypoxia, and Oyster Restoration: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Chesapeake Bay Office, 2009-2010. PI: A. Whitman Miller; $41,993.

Research Opportunities Fund. Smithsonian Marine Science Network, 2009. PI: A. Whitman Miller; $3,500.

Research Opportunities Fund. Smithsonian Marine Science Network, 2005. PI: A. Whitman Miller; $3,000.

The effects of invasion and latitude on the demographics of two brooding marine invertebrates: implications for risk assessment modeling, Smithsonian Marine Science Network, 2004-2005. PIs: A. Whitman Miller and Gregory M. Ruiz; $20,000.

Research Opportunities Fund. Smithsonian Marine Science Network, 2004. PI: A. Whitman Miller; $3,000.

Expansion of SmithsonianEnvironmental Research Center Web-based Database Capabilities. Smithsonian Institution Information Resources Management Pool, 2004. PIs: A. Whitman Miller, Kimbra Cutlip, Donald Weller, Suzan Gunzalus, Charles Gallegos; $18,000.

Tests of ANS Risk Analysis II. Population Dynamics and Demographics of US Transcoastal Invaders, National Sea Grant, 2003-2005. PIs: A. Whitman Miller, Gregory M. Ruiz, Mark E. Torchin, James T. Carlton, Jonathan Geller; $216,133.

Fine Scale Quantitative Spatial Analysis of Biofouling Communities and Effects of NIS Removal on Community Assemblage, NOAA Aquatic Invasive Species Team. PIs: Brian Mulvey, Steve Edmondson, A. Whitman Miller, Gregory M. Ruiz; $50,761.

Eradication of the exotic snail Littorina saxatilis in San Francisco Bay, NOAA, 2001-2002. PIs: Gregory M. Ruiz, A. Whitman Miller, Jeffrey A. Crooks, Edwin Grosholz, Russell Bellmer; $90,000.

Management & On-Line Access for Ballast Water Delivery and Management Data reported by Ships Arriving to Ports in the State of Washington, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2001. PIs: Gregory M. Ruiz and A. Whitman Miller; $24,078.

Awards

Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, 1997. Awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the California Sea Grant Program (University of California, San Diego).

Western Society of Naturalists Honorarium for graduate student presentation, 1997.

College and Departmental Honors, 1984, Earlham College.

Wendell Stanley Scholar Athlete Award, 1984, Earlham College.

Other Professional Activities

Maritime Environmental Resource Center, Advisory Board Member (March 2008 - present)

International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions, Steering Committee member (May 2007 - present)

Global Invasions Research Coordination Network, member (Aug 2006 - present)

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Biosecurity Committee, member (Jan 2006 - present)

U.S. EPA Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation and Office of Water. The Economic Impacts of Aquatic Invasive Species Workshop (invited expert in ecology). Washington, D.C., July 20-21, 2005.

Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, Ex-Officio Member (Mar 2004 - present)

Smithsonian Institution Collections Task Force, member (Jan 2004 - present)

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Information Technology Committee, member (Jan 2004 - present)

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Ad Hoc Committee on Career Paths in Science, member (Mar 2004 - present)

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Oceans Hall Exhibit Developmental Workshop, June 3-4, 2003.

Journal Referee: Nature, Ecology Letters, Limnology and Oceanography, Frontiers in Ecology and the Envrironment, American Malacological Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Biology and Ecology, Journal of the Marine Biological Association, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Journal of Shellfish Research, Journal of Crustacean Biology.

Research Interests

Ecology of marine and estuarine invasive species; comparative demographics of nonindigenous invertebrates; quantification of environmental and ecological impacts in spatially heterogeneous habitats; biological and ecological effects of ocean acidification.