Background
Dr. Stephanie Talmage
Forsberg is the 12thgeneration of her family to live in East Hampton Town. She is just finishing her forth
year as an East Hampton Town Trustee, and has been the Assistant Clerk of the Trustees for the past two years. Stephanie is
up for re-election in November 2011. Stephanie earned her B.S. from Cornell University, her Master’s in Biology
from California State University Northridge, and her Ph.D. from the Stony Brook University. Stephanie has studied many
marine environments, all around the globe, from Long Island to Mexico to Tahiti and back.
Stephanie
has been made many advances in her work as a full time researcher for Stony Brook University. While working on her Ph.D.
research, Stephanie researched ocean acidification and it’s effects on the growth and development of our local hard
clam, oyster, and bay scallop. She has numerous publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
While on the Trustee board, Stephanie has served
on the aquaculture, Three Mile Harbor, Napeague Harbor, Accabonac Harbor, Pump-Out Boat, and education committees. For
the past four years on the Trustee board, Stephanie has worked adamantly in cleaning our beaches, keeping beach access for
all residents, fighting the salt-water fishing license and fee imposed by the state, as well as numerous other tasks to ensure
that East Hampton Town residents will be able to enjoy the beauty of our beaches today and well into the future.
In
continuation of her passion for the sciences, Stephanie is currently persuing her MAT degree at Stony Brook University
and completing all requirements for certification to teach science in New York State. When completed in December 2012,
Stephanie hopes to find a job in teaching science on the East End of Long Island. She will be certified to teach
grades 5-12 general science, Living Environment (Biology), AP Biology, Earth Science, AP Environmental, Marine Science, Science
Research, and/or Forensics.
Publications
1. Douglas, N.L., K.M. Mullen, S.C. Talmage, and C.D. Harvell. 2007. Exploring the Role of ChitinolyticEnzymes
in Sea Fan Coral (Gorgonia ventalina) Immunity. Marine Biology, 150(6) pp. 1137-44.
2. Schumacher, R.W., S.C. Talmage, S.A. Miller, K.E. Sarris,
B.S. Davidson, and A.Goldberg. 2003. Isolation andstructure determination of an antimicrobial
ester from a marine sediment-derived bacterium. Journal of Natural Products 66(9) pp.
1291-93.
3. Talmage, S.C. and C.J.
Gobler. 2009. The effects of elevated carbon dioxide concentrations on themetamorphosis,
size, and survival of larval hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), bay scallops (Argopecten irradians), and
Eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica). Journal of Limnology and Oceanography 54(6) pp. 2072-2080
4. Talmage, S.C and C.J. Gobler. 2010. Effects of past, present, and future ocean carbon dioxide
concentrations on the growth and survival of shellfish. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences of the UnitedStates of America
107(40) pp. 17246-17251
5. Talmage, S.C and C.J. Gobler. 2011. Effects of elevated temperature and carbon dioxide on the
growth andsurvival of larvae and juveniles of three species of Northwest Atlantic bivalves.
PLos One. Accepted 10/6/2011.
6. Baumann, H.,Talmage, S.C
and C.J. Gobler. 2010. Reduced early life growth and survival in a fish in directresponse to elevated CO2 levels. Nature Climate
Change. Accepted 10/7/2011.
SUNY Stony Brook- Gobler Lab
SUNY Stony Brook-School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
East Hampton Town Trustees
Cornell University
California State University Northridge Marine Biology
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