Professional positions
Visiting assistant professor, August 2021 - present
Department of Biology, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
Postdoctoral research associate, November 2017 - July 2021
Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana
Postdoctoral associate, April - October 2017
University of California, Santa Barbara
Education
PhD, March 2017; Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor: Craig Carlson
Thesis: Bottom-up drivers of bacterial community composition and metabolism of dissolved
organic carbon in the Santa Barbara Channel, CA
MS, 2009; Coastal Marine and Wetland Studies
Coastal Carolina University
Advisor: Eric Koepfler
Thesis: Effects of inter-tributary dissolved organic carbon variability on heterotrophic
microbial communities in upper Winyah Bay, SC
BS, 2007; Biology, English minor
Illinois Wesleyan University
Funding obtained
2012 - NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (3 years, $90,000)
2008 - National Estuarine Research Reserve System Graduate Research Fellowship (1 year, $20,000)
Publications (directs to Publications page)
Teaching experience
Instructor, Biological Oceanography, Lewis & Clark College, F23, F24
Instructor, Microbiology (lecture and lab), Lewis & Clark College, Sp23, Sp24, F24
Instructor, Microbial Ecology (lecture and lab), Lewis & Clark College, Sp22, F23, Sp25
Instuctor, Bio 201: Systems (intro bio: evolution and ecology), Lewis & Clark College, F21 - Sp23, Sp24, Sp25
Instructor, Bio 110: Biological Investigations (intro bio: skills in biology), Lewis & Clark College, F22
Instructor, Bio 100, for nonmajors, Lewis & Clark College, Su24
Cruises
DeepCCZ, R/V Kilo Moana; May - June 2018
32 days in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the tropical North Pacific
SCOPE cruise, R/V Falkor; March - April 2018
14 days in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
Plumes and Blooms, R/V Shearwater; 2010 - 2015
35 day cruises in the Santa Barbara Channel
Course-associated cruise, R/V Kilo Moana; June 2011
10 days in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
SBDOM10 and SBDOM11, R/V Point Sur; April 2010 and May 2011
1 week cruises in the Santa Barbara Channel
Course-associated cruise, R/V Atlantic Explorer; June 2010
2 days in the Sargasso Sea
Professional service and affiliations
Reviewer for journals including: Applied and Environmental Microbiology; Aquatic Microbial Ecology;
Biogeosciences;
Environmental Microbiology (Reports);
Environmental
Science
and Pollution Research;
Estuarine,
Coastal,
and Shelf Science; Frontiers in
Microbiology; The ISME Journal;
Journal of Geophysical
Research - Oceans; Limnology and
Oceanography (Letters); Marine Chemistry; mSphere; PeerJ;
Science of the Total
Environment
*I track my reviews on Web of Science
Member: Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
Professional and pedagogical training
2022 and 2023 - Skills for Teaching Data Science Workshop; University of Arizona and Lewis & Clark College
2018 - Data Intensive Biology Summer Institute ANGUS; University of California, Davis
2017 - CIRTL Network MOOC: An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching
2013 - Cornell Satellite Remote Sensing Training Program
2011 - Summer Course on Microbial Oceanography, Center for Microbial Oceanography:
Research and Education, University of Hawai`i
2010 - Microbial Oceanography course, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
Recent conference and workshop presentations
E Wear. 2024. Poster: Incorporating community-level 16S rRNA gene sequencing of local rivers
into a semester-long undergraduate course: benefits and challenges. ASLO summer meeting,
Madison, WI.
E Wear, L Windecker, J Jones, A James, E Halewood, M Brzezinski, and C Carlson. 2021.
Talk: Distinct heterotrophic bacterioplankton communities associated with upwelling-driven
diatom and Phaeocystis blooms in different physiological states. Aquatic Sciences Meeting, virtual.
E Wear, C Smith, J Drazen, and M Church. 2020. Talk: Deep-sea bacterial and archaeal
communities of the western Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, CA.
E Wear and M Church. 2019. Talk: Synthesis of microbial diversity in the CCZ. DeepCCZ
Biodiversity Synthesis Workshop, Friday Harbor, WA.
E Wear, J Ranieri, S Devlin, and M Church. 2019. Poster: Bottom-up effects on
Flathead Lake bacterioplankton community composition during summer stratification.
Montana Aquatic Research Colloquium, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Polson, MT.
E Wear, C Carlson, and M Church. 2019. Talk: Mesoscale eddy effects differentially
impact bacterioplankton use of phytoplankton lysates across a cyclone-anticyclone
dipole
in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Aquatic Sciences Meeting, San Juan, PR.