Erik Cordes

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Erik Cordes

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Biology

      • Professor

      • Chair

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BIOL 1911

Honors Introduction to Organismal Biology

Undergraduate

BIOL 4391

Accelerated Research in Biology

Undergraduate

BIOL 8210

Seminar

Graduate

BIOL 8250

Seminar

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Seid, C.A., Hiley, A.S., McCowin, M.F., Carvajal, J.I., Cha, H., Ahyong, S.T., Ashford, O.S., Breedy, O., Eernisse, D.J., Goffredi, S.K., Hendrickx, M.E., Kocot, K.M., Mah, C.L., Miller, A.K., Koch, N.M., Mooi, R., O'Hara, T.D., Pleijel, F., Stiller, J., Tilic, E., Valentich-Scott, P., Warén, A., Wicksten, M.K., Wilson, N.G., Cordes, E.E., Levin, L.A., Cortés, J., & Rouse, G.W. (2025). A faunal inventory of methane seeps on the Pacific margin of Costa Rica. Zookeys, 1222, 1-250. Bulgaria. 10.3897/zookeys.1222.134385

  • Betters, M.J. & Cordes, E.E. (2024). New records of Provanna (Gastropoda, Provannidae) from the Costa Rica Margin and an identification key for the genus. Zookeys, 1189, 1-32. Bulgaria. 10.3897/zookeys.1189.109734

  • Betters, M.J., Cortés, J., & Cordes, E.E. (2024). New species and records of limpets (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Pacific Costa Rica Margin. Zookeys, 1214, 281-324. Bulgaria. 10.3897/zookeys.1214.128594

  • Cordes, E.E., Demopoulos, A.W., Davies, A.J., Gasbarro, R., Rhoads, A.C., Lobecker, E., Sowers, D., Chaytor, J.D., Morrison, C.L., Weinnig, A.M., Brooke, S., Lunden, J.J., Mienis, F., Joye, S.B., Quattrini, A.M., Sutton, T.T., McFadden, C.S., Bourque, J.R., McClain-Counts, J.P., Andrews, B.D., Betters, M.J., Etnoyer, P.J., Wolff, G.A., Bernard, B.B., Brooks, J.M., Rasser, M.K., & Adams, C. (2023). Expanding our view of the cold-water coral niche and accounting of the ecosystem services of the reef habitat. Sci Rep, 13(1), 19482. England. 10.1038/s41598-023-45559-5

  • Taenzer, L., Wankel, S.D., Kapit, J., Pardis, W.A., Herrera, S., Auscavitch, S., Grabb, K.C., Cordes, E., & Hansel, C.M. (2023). Corals and sponges are hotspots of reactive oxygen species in the deep sea. PNAS Nexus, 2(11), pgad398. England. 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad398

  • Osman, E.O., Vohsen, S.A., Girard, F., Cruz, R., Glickman, O., Bullock, L.M., Anderson, K.E., Weinnig, A.M., Cordes, E.E., Fisher, C.R., & Baums, I.B. (2023). Capacity of deep-sea corals to obtain nutrition from cold seeps aligned with microbiome reorganization. Glob Chang Biol, 29(1), 189-205. England. 10.1111/gcb.16447

  • Herrera, S. & Cordes, E.E. (2023). Genome assembly of the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa. GigaByte, 2023, gigabyte78. China. 10.46471/gigabyte.78

  • Pereira, O., Gonzalez, J., Mendoza, G., Le, J., Coscino, C., Lee, R., Cortés, J., Cordes, E., & Levin, L. (2021). The dynamic influence of methane seepage on macrofauna inhabiting authigenic carbonates. Ecosphere, 12(10). doi: 10.1002/ecs2.3744.

  • Montseny, M., Linares, C., Carreiro-Silva, M., Henry, L., Billett, D., Cordes, E., Smith, C., Papadopoulou, N., Bilan, M., Girard, F., Burdett, H., Larsson, A., Strömberg, S., Viladrich, N., Barry, J., Baena, P., Godinho, A., Grinyó, J., Santín, A., Morato, T., Sweetman, A., Gili, J., & Gori, A. (2021). Active Ecological Restoration of Cold-Water Corals: Techniques, Challenges, Costs and Future Directions. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.621151.

  • Ashford, O.S., Guan, S., Capone, D., Rigney, K., Rowley, K., Cordes, E.E., Cortés, J., Rouse, G.W., Mendoza, G.F., Sweetman, A.K., & Levin, L.A. (2021). Relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning proxies strengthen when approaching chemosynthetic deep-sea methane seeps. Proc Biol Sci, 288(1957), 20210950. England. 10.1098/rspb.2021.0950

  • Ashford, O., Guan, S., Capone, D., Rigney, K., Rowley, K., Orphan, V., Mullin, S., Dawson, K., Cortés, J., Rouse, G., Mendoza, G., Lee, R., Cordes, E., & Levin, L. (2021). A chemosynthetic ecotone—“chemotone”—in the sediments surrounding deep-sea methane seeps. Limnology and Oceanography, 66(5), 1687-1702. doi: 10.1002/lno.11713.

  • DeLeo, D., Glazier, A., Herrera, S., Barkman, A., & Cordes, E. (2021). Transcriptomic Responses of Deep-Sea Corals Experimentally Exposed to Crude Oil and Dispersant. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.649909.

  • Morato, T., Pham, C., Fauconnet, L., Taranto, G., Chimienti, G., Cordes, E., Dominguez-Carrió, C., Muñoz, P.D., Egilsdottir, H., González-Irusta, J., Grehan, A., Hebbeln, D., Henry, L., Kazanidis, G., Kenchington, E., Menot, L., Molodtsova, T., Orejas, C., Ramiro-Sánchez, B., Ramos, M., Roberts, J., Rodrigues, L., Ross, S., Rueda, J., Sacau, M., Stirling, D., & Carreiro-Silva, M. (2021). North Atlantic Basin-Scale Multi-Criteria Assessment Database to Inform Effective Management and Protection of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.637078.

  • Gauthier, A.E., Chandler, C.E., Poli, V., Gardner, F.M., Tekiau, A., Smith, R., Bonham, K.S., Cordes, E.E., Shank, T.M., Zanoni, I., Goodlett, D.R., Biller, S.J., Ernst, R.K., Rotjan, R.D., & Kagan, J.C. (2021). Deep-sea microbes as tools to refine the rules of innate immune pattern recognition. Sci Immunol, 6(57). United States. 10.1126/sciimmunol.abe0531

  • Howell, K.L., Hilário, A., Allcock, A.L., Bailey, D., Baker, M., Clark, M.R., Colaço, A., Copley, J., Cordes, E.E., Danovaro, R., Dissanayake, A., Escobar, E., Esquete, P., Gallagher, A.J., Gates, A.R., Gaudron, S.M., German, C.R., Gjerde, K.M., Higgs, N.D., Bris, N.L., Levin, L.A., Manea, E., McClain, C., Menot, L., Mestre, N.C., Metaxas, A., Milligan, R., Muthumbi, A.W., Narayanaswamy, B.E., Ramalho, S.P., Ramirez-Llodra, E., Robson, L.M., Rogers, A.D., Sellanes, J., Sigwart, J.D., Sink, K., Snelgrove, P.V., Stefanoudis, P.V., Sumida, P.Y., Taylor, M.L., Thurber, A.R., Vieira, R., Watanabe, H.K., Woodall, L.C., & Xavier, J.R. (2021). A decade to study deep-sea life. Nat Ecol Evol, 5(3), 265-267. England. 10.1038/s41559-020-01352-5

  • Halanych, K., Ainsworth, C., Cordes, E., Dodge, R., Huettel, M., Mendelssohn, I., Murawski, S., Paris-Limouzy, C., Schwing, P., Shaw, R., & Sutton, T. (2021). Effects of petroleum by-products and dispersants on ecosystems. Oceanography, 34(1), 152-163. doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2021.123.