Mary with a Giant Pillbug!
Mary posing with a giant pillbug (Bathynomus giganteus). It's an isopod crustacean distantly related to the garden pillbugs. Giant pillbugs live at 500 m or more in the Gulf of Mexico and [...]
Explorer Profile
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Mary K. Wicksten is a professor of biology at Texas A&M University who specializes in the study of decapod crustaceans, particularly shrimp and their behavior.
She received her Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Southern California and has conducted postdoctoral research there as well.
Wicksten has published extensively on the biogeography, systematics, and behavior of decapod crustaceans, including a monograph on the decapod crustaceans of the Californian and Oregonian zoogeographic provinces.
She is recognized as an expert in her field, with her research involving the use of remotely operated vehicles to study deep-sea crustaceans.
Journal Entries
Publications
Wicksten, M.K. 2015. Vertical reefs: life on oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
Wicksten, M.K. 2012.Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces. Zootaxa Monograph 3371, Magnolia Press, Auckland New Zealand.
Wicksten, M.K. 1996. Anthozoans, Bryozoans, Brachiopods and Tunicates of Rocas Alijos; Decapod Crustaceans and Pycnogonids of Rocas Alijos, A New Species of Hippolytid Shrimp from Rocas Alijos.IN Schmeider, R. ed. Rocas Alijos: Scientific Results from the Cordell Expeditions. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. (This was a 1990 Explorers Club Flag Expedition)
Mary Wicksten has published more than 130 scientific papers, primarily on decapod crustaceans but also mollusks. She has described or been a coauthor of 54 new species of crustaceans, mostly from the eastern Pacific but also the Gulf of Mexico.
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