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Education

  • PhD, 2019, Aquatic Resources, Texas State University
  • MS, 2013, Environmental Science, University of Houston-Clear Lake
  • MS, 2010, Oceanography and Fisheries Science, University of Mumbai
  • BS, 2008, Zoology, University of Mumbai

Courses Taught

  • Oceanography (EASC 3340)
  • Systems Thinking (ENVS 3307)
  • Environmental Science Capstone (ENVS 4380)
  • Advanced Oceanography (ENVS 5345)
  • Graduate Seminar (Groundwater ecology, Isotope ecology) (ENVS 5187)
  • Research and Analytical Methods (ENVS 5370)
  • Issues in Water Resources (ENVS 5320)

Research Interests

I apply a biochemical approach to tracing trophic interactions in aquatic food webs. My research seeks to understand how resource pulses and local and global stressors affect prey-predator dynamics and nutrient cycling in food webs, and how these factors ultimately shape ecosystem resilience and functioning.

Publications

  1. Fuiman LA, Faulk CK, Nair P, Lowerre-Barbieri S, Burnsed SW. 2026. Variability in the Supply of Essential Fatty Acids and Food-Web Linkages through Red Drum Egg Boons. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 83(1), fsaf238
  2. Nair P, Fuiman LA. 2025. Tracing exploitation of a fish egg boon in marine food webs. Marine Ecology Progress Series 774:35-56
  3. Wright KL, Nair P, Swannack TM, Nowlin WH. 2025. Assessing drivers of spatial variation in macroinvertebrate community structure in spring-fed subtropical rivers. Aquatic Ecology 13: 1-22
  4. Nair P, Miller C, Fuiman LA. 2023. Tracing exploitation of egg boons:an experimental study using fatty acids and stable isotopes. The Journal of experimental biology 226: 22, jeb246247
  5. Worsham ML, Nair P, Gibson JR, Rodriguez D, Schwartz BF, Nowlin WH. 2023. Phylogenetically independent behavior mediating geographic distributions suggests habitat is a strong driver of phenotype in crangonyctid amphipods. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:1234244
  6. Nair P, Gibson JR, Schwartz BF, Nowlin WH. 2023. Temperature responses vary between riffle beetles from contrasting aquatic environments. Journal of Thermal Biology 112:103485
  7. Nair P, Diaz P, Nowlin WH. 2021. Interactions at the surface-subterranean ecotones: examining food webs in spring ecosystems. Oecologia 196:235-248.
  8. Nair P, Huertas M, Nowlin WH. 2020. Metabolic responses to long-term food deprivation in subterranean and surface amphipods. Subterranean Biology 33: 1-15
  9. Nair P, Hunter AH, Worsham ML, Stehle M, Gibson JR, Nowlin WH. 2019. Sexual Dimorphism in Three Species of Heterelmis Sharp (Coleoptera: Elmidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 73: 1075-1083