Mary RiceResearch Zoologist, Emeritus

• Phone: 772-462-0987
• Fax: 772-461-8154
• E-mail: rice@si.edu


• Mailing Address:
  Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce
  701 Seaway Drive
  Fort Pierce, Florida 34949
  


• Courier Delivery Address:
  Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce
  701 Seaway Drive
  Fort Pierce, Florida 34949
  

Education:
Drew University, B.A. 1947
Oberlin College, M.A. 1949
University of Washington, Ph.D. 1966

Research Interests:
Systematics and development of marine sipunculan worms
Development and larval biology of marine invertebrates, worldwide
Smithsonian Marine Station

Professional Activities:
Member and past president (1979) of the American Society of Zoologists/Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Member and past president (1999) of The American Microscopical Society

Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Recent Publications:
Young, Craig M., Emson, Roland H., Rice, Mary E. and Tyler, Paul A. 2013. A paradoxical mismatch of fecundity and recruitment in deep-sea opportunists: Cocculinid and pseudococculinid limpets colonizing vascular plant remains on the Bahamian Slope. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.01.027

Rice, Mary E., Reichardt, Hugh F., Piraino, Julianne and Young, Craig M. 2012. Reproduction, development, growth, and the length of larval life of Phascolosoma turnerae, a wood-dwelling deep-sea sipunculan. Invertebrate Biology, 131(3): 204-215. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2012.00267.x

Schulze, Anja, Maiorova, Anastassya, Timm, Laura E. and Rice, Mary E. 2012. Sipunculan Larvae and "Cosmopolitan" Species. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 52(4): 497-510. doi:10.1093/icb/ics082

Young, Craig M., He, Ruoying, Emlet, Richard B., Li, Yizhen, Qian, Hui, Arellano, Shawn M., Van Gaest, Ahna, Bennett, Kathleen C., Wolf, Maya, Smart, Tracey I. and Rice, Mary E. 2012. Dispersal of Deep-Sea Larvae from the Intra-American Seas: Simulations of Trajectories Using Ocean Models. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 52(4): 483-496. doi:10.1093/icb/ics090

Schulze, Anya and Rice, Mary E. 2009. Nephasoma pellucidum - A Model for Sipunculan Development?. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, 38: 209-217.

Kawauchi, Gisele Y. and Rice, Mary E. 2009. Two New Species of Nephasoma (Sipuncula: Golfingiidae) from the Western Atlantic Ocean. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 122(1): 1-13.

Schulze, Anja and Rice, Mary E. 2009. Musculature in sipunculan worms: ontogeny and ancestral states. Evolution & development, 11(1): 97-108. doi:10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00306.x

Rice, Mary E. 2009. Sipuncula of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, Darryl L. and Camp, David K., Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters and Biota Vol. 1, Biodiversity. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, pp.803-808.



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