SC&E Faculty-Sibel Bargu

Assistant Professor,
Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences
LSU School of the Coast & Environment

1235 Energy, Coast & Environment Building
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA - 70803

Tel: 225-578-0029
Fax: 225-578-6326
E-mail: sbargu@lsu.edu

Education

Ph.D., 1998 - 2001 Ocean Sciences Department, University of California at Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
M.S., 1996-1998 Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
Masters Program, 1995 Biology Department, Higher Technology Institute of Gebze, TURKEY
B.S., 1990-1994 Biology Department, Istanbul University, TURKEY

Research Interests

Phytoplankton Ecology, Harmful algal blooms and food web interactions

Grants

S. Bargu Ates and M. Silver. Collaborative research SGER: Domoic acid toxins in the oceanic north Pacific in iron enrichment studies - NSF (Pending)
S. Bargu Ates and E. Laws. The potential effect of environmental stressors on the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia pseudodelicatissima- a common HAB species in Louisiana – Louisiana Sea Grant (Pending)
S. Bargu Ates and N. Rabalais. Variations of Cyanotoxins as a Function of Cell Growth in the Barataria Estuary – Louisiana Sea Grant (Pending)
S. Bargu Ates. Isolation and Cultivation of Potentially Toxic Pseudo-nitzschia pseudodelicatissima and Lingulodinium polyedra from the Northern Gulf of Mexico Coastal Waters – Louisiana Sea Grant (Awarded: 02/01/2007 – 10/31/2007)
S. Bargu Ates , B. Fry, A. Hou and G. Turner. A Proposed Northern Gulf of Mexico Cooperative Institute: Public Health and Stressors – NOAA (Awarded: 2007 -2010)
M. Sutor, S. Bargu Ates, R. Shaw and J. Cowan. A Proposed Northern Gulf of Mexico Cooperative Institute: Trophic Linkages and Biomass Production in Estuarine Ecosystems – NOAA (Awarded: 2007 -2010)
S. Bargu Ates and N. Rabalais. Distribution and potential toxicity of the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia spp. in Mississippi River influenced Louisiana coastal waters - Louisiana Office of Sponsored Programs (Awarded: 6/2007 – 5/2010)
S. Bargu Ates. The role of marine snow in environmental persistence and survival of Vibrio cholerae - Council on Research Summer Stipend Program, LSU (Awarded: 07/2007)

Recent Publications

Bargu, S. K. Lefebvre, and M. W. Silver (2006). Dissolved domoic acid reduces the grazing rate in krill Euphausia pacifica. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. vol. 312: 169–175
Bargu, S. and M. Silver (2003). Field evidence of krill grazing on the toxic diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia in Monterey Bay, California. Bull. Mar. Sci. 72: 629-638
Bargu, S., B. Marinovic, Mansergh S, and M. Silver (2003). Feeding responses of krill to the toxin-producing diatom Pseudo-nitzschia. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., vol. 284: 87-104
Bargu, S., T. Koray and N. Lundholm (2002). First report of Pseudo-nitzschia calliantha Lundholm, Moestrup & Hasle 2003, a new potentially toxic species from Turkish Coasts. E.U. Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences, vol.19 (3-4): 479-483
Bargu, S. (2002). An alternative preparation method for studying diatom frustules using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). E.U. Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences, vol. 19 (1-2): 183-187 (in Turkish)
Bargu, S., C. Powell, S. Coale, M. Busman, G. Doucette and M. Silver (2002). Krill: a potential vector for domoic acid in marine food webs. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., vol. 237: 209-216
Lefebvre, K. A., Bargu, S. T. Kieckhefer and M. W. Silver (2002). From sanddabs to blue whales: the pervasiveness of domoic acid. Toxicon, vol. 40: 971-977
Bargu, S., C. Powell, Z. Wang, G. Doucette, M. W. Silver. (In Press). Note on the occurrence of Pseudo-nitzschia australis and domoic acid in squid from Monterey Bay, California ( USA). Harmful Algae .

Affiliations

Member of American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
Member of International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae (ISSA)
Member of Oceanography Society