Morgan Kilgour

Background

Morgan Kilgour received her B.S. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2003. As an undergraduate she volunteered at the Long Marine Lab on the Marine Mammal Physiology Project and worked part time for researchers at the NMFS lab in Santa Cruz. She also participated in a field ecology course, where she studied recruitment on coral reefs in Moorea, French Polynesia. Morgan completed her M.S. degree in Biology at Texas A&M Univeristy-Corpus Christi in 2007. As a graduate student she has made a submersible dive in the Pisces V on Hawaiian seamounts, studied shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico and participated in numerous scuba expeditions.

Contact Information

Morgan Kilgour
Harte Research Institute
6300 Ocean Drive
Corpus Christi, TX 78412
Ph: 361-825-2061
Fax: 361-825-2050
Email: morgan.kilgour@tamucc.edu
Webpage: www.harteresearchinstitute.org

Research Interests

• Morgan Kilgour is a doctoral fellow in the Biodiversity and Conservation Laboratory at Harte Research Institute under Dr. Tom Shirley at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi. Her focus for her dissertaion research is on the biology and ecology of galatheoid crabs in the Gulf of Mexico. Her research interests include marine ecology, deep sea biology, and benthic ecology.
  • Committee Members: Dr. Thomas Shirley (chair), Dr. John W. Tunnell, Jr., Dr. James Tolan, Dr. Darryl Felder

Publications

Church, R., D. Warren, R. Cullimore, L. Johnston, W. Schroeder, W. Patterson, T. Shirley, M. Kilgour, N. Morris, and J. Moore. 2007. The archaeological and biological analysis of World War II shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico: Artificial reef effect in deep water. U. S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, LA. OCS Study MMS 2007-015. 387 pp.

Church, R., D. Warren, R. Cullimore, W. Schroeder, W. Patterson, T. Shirley, M. Kilgour, N. Morris, J. Moore and L. Johnston. 2008. A study of living history: Deep WWII shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico. The Past Foundation. 261 pp.

Kilgour, M.J. 2007. Bathymetric and Spatial Distribution of Decapod Crustaceans on deep Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico. M. S. Thesis. Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi.

Kilgour, M.J. and Shirley, T. C. 2008. Eumunida picta and Lophelia pertusa: a relationship or just good friends? Crustaceana 81: 587-593.

Kilgour, M.J., and Shirley, T.C. 2008. Distribution of red deepsea crab (Chaceon quinquedens) by size and sex in the Gulf of Mexico. Fishery Bulletin 106: 317-320.

Kilgour, M.J.,and Shirley, T. C. 2008. Bathymetric and spatial distribution of decapod crustaceans on deep shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science 82: 333-344.