Karen J. OsbornResearch Zoologist

• Phone: 202-633-3668
• Fax: 202-633-0182
• E-mail: osbornk@si.edu


• Mailing Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  PO Box 37012, MRC 163
  Washington, DC 20013-7012
  


• Courier Delivery Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  National Museum of Natural History
  10th and Constitution Ave, NW
  Washington, DC 20560-0163
  

Responsibilities: Research Zoologist, Curator of Annelida and Isopoda

Education:
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 2007
M.S. Western Washington University, 1999
B.S. Andrews University, 1996

Research Interests: Pelagic invertebrate evolution

Recent Publications:
Holland, Nicholas D., Kuhnz, Linda A. and Osborn, Karen J. 2012. Morphology of a new deepâ€쳌sea acorn worm (class Enteropneusta, phylum Hemichordata): A partâ€쳌time demersal drifter with externalized ovaries. Journal of Morphology, 273(7): 661-671. doi:10.1002/jmor.20013

Holland, Nicholas D., Osborn, Karen J. and Kuhnz, Linda A. 2012. A new deep-sea species of harrimaniid enteropneust (Hemichordata). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 125(3): 228-240. doi:10.2988/12-11.1

Priede, Imants G., Osborn, Karen J., Gebruk, Andrey V., Jones, Dan, Shale, David, Rogacheva, Antonina and Holland, Nicholas D. 2012. Observations on torquaratorid acorn worms (Hemichordata, Enteropneusta) from the North Atlantic with descriptions of a new genus and three new species. Invertebrate Biology, 131(3): 244-257. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2012.00266.x

Sherlock, R. E., Reisenbichler, K. R., Bush, S. L., Osborn, K. J. and Robison, B. H. 2011. Near-field zooplankton, ice-face biota and proximal hydrography of free-drifting Antarctic icebergs. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 58: 1457-1468. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.11.025

Osborn, Karen J., Kuhnz, Linda A., Priede, Imants G., Urata, Makoto, Gebruk, Andrey V. and Holland, Nicholas D. 2011. Diversification of acorn worms (Hemichordata, Enteropneusta) revealed in the deep sea. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 279(1733): 1646-1654.

Osborn, Karen, Haddock, Steven and Rouse, Greg 2011. Swima (Annelida, Acrocirridae), holopelagic worms from the deep Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 163(3): 663-678.

Kaufmann, Ronald S., Robison, Bruce H., Sherlock, Rob E., Reisenbichler, Kim R. and Osborn, Karen J. 2011. Composition and structure of macrozooplankton and micronekton communities in the vicinity of free-drifting Antarctic icebergs. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 58: 1469-1484. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.11.026

Hull, Pincelli M., Osborn, Karen J., Norris, Richard D. and Robison, Bruce H. 2011. Seasonality and depth distribution of a mesopelagic foraminifer, Hastigerinella digitata, in Monterey Bay, California. Limnology and Oceanography, 56: 562-576. doi:10.4319/lo.2011.56.2.0562

Osborn, K. J., Madin, L. P. and Rouse, G. W. 2010. The remarkable squidworm is an example of discoveries that await in deep-pelagic habitats. Biology Letters, 7: 449-453. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.0923

Osborn, Karen J. and Rouse, Greg W. 2010. Phylogenetics of Acrocirridae and Flabelligeridae (Cirratuliformia, Annelida). Zoologica Scripta, 40(2): 204-219. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00460.x

Osborn, K. J., Haddock, S. H. D., Pleijel, F., Madin, L. P. and Rouse, G. W. 2009. Deep-Sea, Swimming Worms with Luminescent "Bombs". Science, 325: 964 doi:10.1126/science.1172488

Osborn, Karen J. 2009. Relationships within the Munnopsidae (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota) based on three genes. Zoologica Scripta, 38: 617-635. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00394.x



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