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Erik Cordes

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Erik Cordes

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Biology

      • Professor

      • Chair

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BIOL 1911

Honors Introduction to Organismal Biology

Undergraduate

BIOL 3941

Honors Broader Impacts: The Art of Scientific Communication

Undergraduate

BIOL 4391

Accelerated Research in Biology

Undergraduate

BIOL 5441

Broader Impacts: The Art of Scientific Communication

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Seid, C.A., Hiley, A.S., McCowin, M.F., Carvajal, J.I., Cha, H., Ahyong, S.T., Ashford, O.S., Breedy, O., Eernisse, D.J., Goffredi, S.K., Hendrickx, M.E., Kocot, K.M., Mah, C.L., Miller, A.K., Koch, N.M., Mooi, R., O'Hara, T.D., Pleijel, F., Stiller, J., Tilic, E., Valentich-Scott, P., Warén, A., Wicksten, M.K., Wilson, N.G., Cordes, E.E., Levin, L.A., Cortés, J., & Rouse, G.W. (2025). A faunal inventory of methane seeps on the Pacific margin of Costa Rica. Zookeys, 1222, 1-250. Bulgaria. 10.3897/zookeys.1222.134385

  • Betters, M.J. & Cordes, E.E. (2024). New records of Provanna (Gastropoda, Provannidae) from the Costa Rica Margin and an identification key for the genus. Zookeys, 1189, 1-32. Bulgaria. 10.3897/zookeys.1189.109734

  • Betters, M.J., Cortés, J., & Cordes, E.E. (2024). New species and records of limpets (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Pacific Costa Rica Margin. Zookeys, 1214, 281-324. Bulgaria. 10.3897/zookeys.1214.128594

  • Cordes, E.E., Demopoulos, A.W., Davies, A.J., Gasbarro, R., Rhoads, A.C., Lobecker, E., Sowers, D., Chaytor, J.D., Morrison, C.L., Weinnig, A.M., Brooke, S., Lunden, J.J., Mienis, F., Joye, S.B., Quattrini, A.M., Sutton, T.T., McFadden, C.S., Bourque, J.R., McClain-Counts, J.P., Andrews, B.D., Betters, M.J., Etnoyer, P.J., Wolff, G.A., Bernard, B.B., Brooks, J.M., Rasser, M.K., & Adams, C. (2023). Expanding our view of the cold-water coral niche and accounting of the ecosystem services of the reef habitat. Sci Rep, 13(1), 19482. England. 10.1038/s41598-023-45559-5

  • Taenzer, L., Wankel, S.D., Kapit, J., Pardis, W.A., Herrera, S., Auscavitch, S., Grabb, K.C., Cordes, E., & Hansel, C.M. (2023). Corals and sponges are hotspots of reactive oxygen species in the deep sea. PNAS Nexus, 2(11), pgad398. England. 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad398

  • Osman, E.O., Vohsen, S.A., Girard, F., Cruz, R., Glickman, O., Bullock, L.M., Anderson, K.E., Weinnig, A.M., Cordes, E.E., Fisher, C.R., & Baums, I.B. (2023). Capacity of deep-sea corals to obtain nutrition from cold seeps aligned with microbiome reorganization. Glob Chang Biol, 29(1), 189-205. England. 10.1111/gcb.16447

  • Herrera, S. & Cordes, E.E. (2023). Genome assembly of the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa. GigaByte, 2023, gigabyte78. China. 10.46471/gigabyte.78

  • 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.S., Guan, S., Capone, D., Rigney, K., Rowley, K., Cordes, E.E., Cortés, J., Rouse, G.W., Mendoza, G.F., Sweetman, A.K., & Levin, L.A. (2021). Relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning proxies strengthen when approaching chemosynthetic deep-sea methane seeps. Proc Biol Sci, 288(1957), 20210950. England. 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.E., Chandler, C.E., Poli, V., Gardner, F.M., Tekiau, A., Smith, R., Bonham, K.S., Cordes, E.E., Shank, T.M., Zanoni, I., Goodlett, D.R., Biller, S.J., Ernst, R.K., Rotjan, R.D., & Kagan, J.C. (2021). Deep-sea microbes as tools to refine the rules of innate immune pattern recognition. Sci Immunol, 6(57). United States. 10.1126/sciimmunol.abe0531

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

  • 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.

  • 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.E., & Cordes, E. (2020). Regulation of ion transport and energy metabolism enables certain coral genotypes to maintain calcification under experimental ocean acidification. Mol Ecol, 29(9), 1657-1673. England. 10.1111/mec.15439

  • Morato, T., González-Irusta, J., Dominguez-Carrió, C., Wei, C., Davies, A., Sweetman, A.K., Taranto, G.H., Beazley, L., García-Alegre, A., Grehan, A., Laffargue, P., Murillo, F.J., 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.E.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.G., Puerta, P., Ragnarsson, S.Ã., Ramiro-Sánchez, B., Rice, J., Rivera, J., Roberts, J.M., Ross, S.W., Rueda, J.L., Sampaio, Ã., Snelgrove, P., Stirling, D., Treble, M.A., Urra, J., Vad, J., Oevelen, D.v., Watling, L., Walkusz, W., Wienberg, C., Woillez, M., Levin, L.A., & 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. Glob Chang Biol, 26(4), 2181-2202. England. 10.1111/gcb.14996

  • Goffredi, S.K., Tilic, E., Mullin, S.W., Dawson, K.S., Keller, A., Lee, R.W., Wu, F., Levin, L.A., Rouse, G.W., Cordes, E.E., & Orphan, V.J. (2020). Methanotrophic bacterial symbionts fuel dense populations of deep-sea feather duster worms (Sabellida, Annelida) and extend the spatial influence of methane seepage. Sci Adv, 6(14), eaay8562. United States. 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.

  • Weinnig, A.M., Gómez, C.E., Hallaj, A., & Cordes, E.E. (2020). Cold-water coral (Lophelia pertusa) response to multiple stressors: High temperature affects recovery from short-term pollution exposure. Sci Rep, 10(1), 1768. England. 10.1038/s41598-020-58556-9

  • Auscavitch, S.R., Lunden, J.J., Barkman, A., Quattrini, A.M., Demopoulos, A.W., & Cordes, E.E. (2020). Distribution of deep-water scleractinian and stylasterid corals across abiotic environmental gradients on three seamounts in the Anegada Passage. PeerJ, 8, e9523. United States. 10.7717/peerj.9523

  • Rojas-Jimenez, K., Grossart, H., Cordes, E., & Cortés, J. (2020). Fungal Communities in Sediments Along a Depth Gradient in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Front Microbiol, 11, 575207. Switzerland. 10.3389/fmicb.2020.575207