Charles A. Phillips 15582 Pelican Lane Huntington Beach, California 92649 (714) 397-0014

Education

B.S. Marine Biology, California State University Long Beach, 1976

Professional Experience

City of Los Angeles – Environmental Monitoring Division 1979 – present [Water Biologist II] Senior taxonomist: Supervisor of marine benthic ecology group – responsible for identification of marine and estuarine infauna and trawl caught fish and invertebrates required for NPDES monitoring studies of Santa Monica Bay and outer Los Angeles Harbor; data analysis of completed infauna samples for statistical calculations; supervision of field studies (benthic infauna, trawl, water column, plankton (bongo and manta tow) and microlayer). Additional projects include the taxonomic study of the Order Cumacea in the Southern California Bight, clarification of the taxonomy of the genera within the Family Cirratulidae in the Southern California Bight and qualitative taxonomy of the Polycladida and Nemertea Enopla of the Southern California Bight.

Taxonomic Consultant (1981 – Present)

MTS: 2010 Identification of Polychaeta from San Francisco Bay

San Jose State Foundation: 2007 – present Identification of Nemertea & Polycladida (California Bioinvasives Study – San Francisco, Los Angeles/Long Beach, San Diego Bays; California Outer Coast rocky intertidal/subtidal [Oregon to Mexico border])

Weston (Marine Ecological Consultants): 1986 – present Identification of Polychaeta and Mollusca from Los Angeles Harbor and Orange County Sanitation Districts; sort Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts Polychaeta into families; identification Polychaeta and Echinodermata San Diego Bay; identification Polychaeta Palos Verdes Capping project; identification of LA3 dumpsite Polychaeta; identification of BIGHT ’98,‘2003 & 2008 Polychaeta, identification of PSAMP Polychaeta; Identification of Hackensack, New Jersey Polychaeta; QA identification of PSAMP miscellaneous phyla, SCCWRP stormwater identification Polychaeta, Mollusca, miscellaneous phyla; QA identification

1 CARP Tanaidacea, identification of Echinodermata Columbia River, Identification of Echinodermata Orange County Sanitation Districts; Identification of BIGHT ‘2003 & BIGHT ‘2008 Echinodermata; Identification of Encina, San Elijo & Oceanside Echinodermata; Identification of Gulf of Thailand Echinodermata

SAIC: 1998 – 2008 QA/QC sort and identification of Orange County Sanitation Districts NPDES benthic infauna (polychaeta, mollusca, miscellaneous phyla) , identification of Polychaeta and Crustacea Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Bio-Baselin ABC Labs: 1998 – present identification of benthic infauna Marina del Rey and Goleta (all phyla); identification of Crustacea from minor POTW (Avalon, Carpenteria, Gaviota, Goleta, Morro Bay, Oxnard); identification BIGHT ’98 Crustacea; identification of Polychaeta (Avalon, Carpenteria, Gaviota, Goleta, Morro Bay, Oxnard, Ventura), identification of ‘BiIGHT 2008 Polychaeta & Miscellaneous phyla

Cove Corporation: 1998 – 2002 identification of Family Cirratulidae (Polychaeta) [Massachusettes Water Resources Authority – Boston Harbor]

Osprey Marine Management: 1987 – present QA/QC OCSD identifications (polychaeta, mollusca, others); identification all phyla Anaheim Bay/Huntington Harbour; sorting and identification of marine and estuarine benthic samples (Army Corps of Engineers – Oceanside, Santa Ana River, Sunset Beach); identification of all phyla LA3/LA2 dumpsites; identification of all phyla small POTW (Avalon, Carpenteria, Gaviota, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura); identification of all phyla Shell Oil Platforms (Huntington Beach), Marina del Rey, QA/QC identification of Orange County Sanitation Districts NPDES benthic infauna (polychaeta, mollusca, miscellaneous phyla)

Marine Taxonomic Services: 1995 – 1999 identification of polychaeta (ASARCO/Puget Sound/Tacoma copper smelter); secondary ID Crustacea (Oregon/Puget Sound)

EVS Consultants: 1990 – 1991 identification of polychaeta (Puget Sound)

Dames & Moore: 1989 – 1991 secondary (QA) identification of miscellaneous phyla (intertidal/subtidal) [Nemertea, Polycladida, Sipuncula, Echiura,

2 Phoronida] from Prince William Sound and Kodiak, Alaska (EXXON Valdez Oil Spill)

Battelle – Ventura: 1987 – 1989 identification of Nemertea and Sipuncula [MMS Year 1 Santa Maria Basin]

Marine Biological Consultants: 1983 – 1986 sorting/identification Long Beach Harbor rip-rap infauna; identification of polychaeta [MMS baseline Santa Maria Basin]

Reish Marine Studies: 1981 – 1986 identification of all phyla Los Angeles Harbor; identification of all phyla Gulf of Farallons radioactive dumpsite

Reish Marine Studies (1975 – 1979) (Graduate Student CSULB)

Supervisor of field sampling (shipboard/diver core); sorting and identification of benthic infaunal samples; monitoring of marine fouling communities; live culture and bioassay studies of marine polychaetes, identification of Indian River Lagoon Polychaeta (Florida), training of taxonomists in Polychaeta taxonomy from Florida Environmental Laboratory

Lockheed Marine Research (1977 – 1978)

Field sampling plankton (bongo/manta nets), entrainment and conduit grazing studies (Scattergood Generating Plant, Harbor Generation Station, Alamitos Bay Generating Station)

Harbor Environmental Studies, University of Southern California (1975 – 1977)

Research Assistant, cleaning and sorting of Los Angeles Harbor benthic infaunal samples; training in identification polychaeta and mollusca

California State University Long Beach (1976 – 1979)

Graduate Assistant and Teaching Assistant (Department of Biology)

Publications

Dorsey, J.H. and C.A. Phillips. 1987. A new species of Syllis (Ehlersia) (Polychaeta, Syllidae) from southern California, and description of the epitoke and atoke variation in S. (Ehlersia) heterochaeta Moore, 1909. Proceedings Biological Society of Washington, Bulletin No. 7, 152-161.

3 Dojiri, M., D.B. Cadien and C.A. Phillips. 1991. A new species of Ammothella (Pycnogonida:Ammotheidae) from deep water off San Nicolas Island, California. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, 61(1):31-41.

Memberships

Biological Society of Washington California Malacozoological Society Crustacean Society San Diego Shell Club Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists Southern California Academy of Sciences Western Society of Malacologists Western Society of Naturalists

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