Kimberly Ritchie

Kimberly B. Ritchie is an American marine biologist. She is an associate professor in the Department of Natural Sciences at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. She is the daughter of Robert E. and Frances M. Beach. summer research program in estuarine and coastal sciences. At USCB, she teaches Coral Reef Ecology, Marine Policy and Marine Microbiology and continues to mentor undergraduate students in marine microbial research. Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000 Editorial board, Coral Reefs, 2014 to present Editorial board, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 to present Editorial board, Frontiers in Marine Science, 2016 to present Acropora Recovery Team Member for the Endangered Species Act (ESA) Listing of the threatened elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, National Marine Fisheries Service

Selected publications Smith, GW, LD Ives, IA Nagelkerken and KB Ritchie (1996) Caribbean Sea-Fan Mortalities. Nature 383, 487 Caribbean sea-fan mortalities Richardson, LL, WM Goldberg, KG Kuta, RB Aronson, GW Smith, KB Ritchie, JC Halas, JS Feingold, SL Miller (1998) Florida's mystery coral-killer identified. Nature 392:557-558 Florida's mystery coral-killer identified Patterson, KL, JW Porter, KB Ritchie, GW Smith, SW Polson (2002). Etiology of white pox, a lethal disease of the Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99(13): 8725-8730 The etiology of white pox, a lethal disease of the Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata Ritchie, KB (2006) Regulation of marine microbes by coral mucus and mucus-associated bacteria. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 322: 1-14 https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v322/ Eakin CM, Morgan JA, Heron SF, Smith TB, Liu G, et al. of 67 authors (2010) Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005. PLoS ONE 5(11): e13969. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013969 McDaniel, LE, Young E, Delaney J, Ruhnau F., Ritchie KB, Paul JH (2010) High Frequency of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Oceans. Science 330, 50 DOI: 10.1126/science.1192243