{"id":7,"date":"2026-06-25T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/nair\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:11:55","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/nair\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-link-color blue-message wp-elements-f3b6b36c237cce1b27c4d4e32eb0602c wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1260f1a266c7ab9da0cee70bdb086471\" style=\"font-size:16px\">PhD, 2019, Aquatic Resources, Texas State University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e4d9626196197ea883e59f8ee69c0826\" style=\"font-size:16px\">MS, 2013, Environmental Science, University of Houston-Clear Lake<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-36b835b8b97fce643514d3575847a81c\" style=\"font-size:16px\">MS, 2010, Oceanography and Fisheries Science, University of Mumbai<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7511cfcf93faa8279ce5899ee8787165\" style=\"font-size:16px\">BS, 2008, Zoology, University of Mumbai<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color blue-message wp-elements-7a50b92dd0e7bde2d474a3bc64a2d6b9 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>Courses Taught<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cfe62ef1402cc4eaebdbf7d5b160b5a7\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Oceanography (EASC 3340)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9b0805548d7195b60c9e84684143ce30\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Systems Thinking (ENVS 3307)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-577be44602fc397876ef6a3c100b165a\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Environmental Science Capstone (ENVS 4380)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-90b4e27d6745f656bea5fa8bb76a1732\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Advanced Oceanography (ENVS 5345)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fe783c77dd1f616579c9b646aab8283f\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Graduate Seminar (Groundwater ecology, Isotope ecology) (ENVS 5187)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4873978bcfcbef825b26b4749e0c7b8a\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Research and Analytical Methods (ENVS 5370)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c621b91f6f75c9f3831243bb88ce7da8\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Issues in Water Resources (ENVS 5320)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\" class=\"blue-message wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d2dde223f1a3dd2df0748fe48234b6f1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\" class=\"blue-message wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0c85abaa9bad543d1450aae7f9c4b63c\" style=\"font-size:16px\">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 <em>Journal of Marine Science<\/em>, 83(1), fsaf238<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c1032e9a9b3f809998caa0546ea93da3\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Nair P, Fuiman LA. 2025. Tracing exploitation of a fish egg boon in marine food webs. <em>Marine Ecology Progress Series<\/em> 774:35-56<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-01c4f6ffe70a0ca08d170e7cabb9ffb8\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Wright KL, Nair P, Swannack TM, Nowlin WH. 2025. Assessing drivers of spatial variation in macroinvertebrate community structure in spring-fed subtropical rivers. <em>Aquatic Ecology<\/em> 13: 1-22<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-492984445e3e053d626b2c3241c26717\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Nair P, Miller C, Fuiman LA. 2023. Tracing exploitation of egg boons:an experimental study using fatty acids and stable isotopes. <em>The Journal of experimental biology<\/em> 226: 22, jeb246247<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-blue-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-09cc897d69c46fc042d5a476f627058d\" style=\"font-size:16px\">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. <em>Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution<\/em> 11:1234244<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">Nair P, Gibson JR, Schwartz BF, Nowlin WH. 2023. Temperature responses vary between riffle beetles from contrasting aquatic environments. <em>Journal of Thermal Biology <\/em>112:103485<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">Nair P<strong>, <\/strong>Diaz P, Nowlin WH. 2021. Interactions at the surface-subterranean ecotones: examining food webs in spring ecosystems. <em>Oecologia <\/em>196:235-248.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">Nair P, Huertas M, Nowlin WH. 2020. Metabolic responses to long-term food deprivation in subterranean and surface amphipods. <em>Subterranean Biology <\/em>33: 1-15<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">Nair P, Hunter AH, Worsham ML, Stehle M, Gibson JR, Nowlin WH. 2019. Sexual Dimorphism in Three Species of <em>Heterelmis <\/em>Sharp (Coleoptera: Elmidae). <em>The Coleopterists Bulletin <\/em>73: 1075-1083<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Courses Taught 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. 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