Education:

Dr.rer.nat., Justus-Liebig-Universitat, Giessen, Germany 1968.

Research Interests and Projects:

Interdisciplinary Research; Plankton Ecology

Courses:

Metazooplankton ecology; Relation of morphology and sensory structures to zooplankton behavior.

Selected Publications:

2007	Paffenhöfer, G.-A., B. F. Sherr, and E. B. Sherr.  2007.  From small scales to the big picture:  persistence mechanisms of planktonic grazers in the oligotrophic ocean.  Marine Ecology 28: 243-253.
2006	Paffenhöfer, G.-A., M.G. Mazzocchi and M.W. Tzeng.  2006.  Living on the edge:  feeding of subtropical open ocean copepods.  Marine Ecology 27: 99-108.
2006	Paffenhöfer, G.-A.  2006.  Oxygen consumption in relation to motion of marine planktonic copepods.  Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 317: 187-192.
2004	Jiang, H. and G.-A. Paffenhöfer. 2004.  Relation of behavior of copepod juveniles to potential predation by omnivorous copepods:  An empirical-modeling study.  Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 278: 225-239.
1998	Paffenhöfer, G.-A. 1998. On the relation of structure, perception and activity in marine planktonic copepods.  J. Mar. Syst. 15: 457-473.
1995	Paffenhöfer, G.-A., L.P. Atkinson, T.N. Lee, P.G. Verity and L. R. Bulluck III.  1995.  Distribution and abundance of thaliaceans and copepods off the southeastern U.S.A. during winter.  Cont. Shelf Res. 15: 255-280.
1993	Paffenhöfer, G.-A. 1993. On the ecology of marine cyclopoid copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopoida). J. Plankton Res.15: 37-55.
1990	Paffenhöfer, G.-A. and K.D. Lewis. 1990. Perceptive performance and feeding behavior of calanoid copepods. J. Plankton Res.12: 933-946.
1988	Paffenhöfer, G.-A. 1988. Feeding rates and behavior of zooplankton. Bull.Mar.Sci. 43: 430-445.
1987	Atkinson, L.P., T.N. Lee, J.O. Blanton and G.-A. Paffenhöfer. 1987. Summer upwelling on the southeastern continental shelf of the U.S.A.during 1981: Hydrographic observations. Prog.Oceanog. 19: 231-266.
1986	Price, H.J. and G.-A. Paffenhöfer. 1986. Capture of small cells by the copepod Eucalanus elongatus . Limnol.Oceanogr. 31: 189-194.
1983	Paffenhöfer, G.-A. 1983. Vertical zooplankton distribution on the northeastern Florida shelf and its relation to temperature and food abundances. J.Plankton Res. 5: 15-33.
1976	Paffenhöfer, G.-A. 1976. On the biology of appendicularia of the southeastern North Sea. The 10th Europ.Symp.Mar.Biol., Ostend, Belgium, September 1975,Vol. 2: 437-455.
1970	Paffenhöfer, G.-A. 1970. Cultivation of Calanus helgolandicus under controlled conditions. Helgolander wiss.Meeresunters. 20: 346-359.

Awards:

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science