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Area Of Specialization : Oceanography


Neil V. Blough
nb41@umail.umd.edu
web site
methods for detecting and identifying free radicals in condensed phases; impact of (photo)oxidative reactions on the transformation and fate of organic & inorganic compounds in natural waters and biological systems

William Boicourt
boicourt@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Physical oceanography of shallow waters, estuaries, river plumes; remote sensing and autonomous samplers; physical-biological interactions and food web dynamics

James Carton
carton@umd.edu
web site
Physical oceanography; ocean circulation; dynamics of the tropical Atlantic as it responds to meteorological forcing on seasonal and longer timescales

Shenn-Yu Chao
chao@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Physical oceanography; continental shelf processes; western boundary currents dynamics; lower atmosphere circulations; estuarine circulations; numerical modelling of mesoscale processes in the ocean

Louis A. Codispoti
codispot@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Chemical oceanography; oceanic nitrogen and carbon cycling; descriptive physical oceanography; chemical instrumentation; nutrient budgets; the Arctic Ocean; processes that influence the flux of nitrous oxide

Victoria J. Coles
vcoles@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Physical and biological response and feedbacks to climate variability and change; Observation and modeling of ocean circulation and ventilation, biogeochemical tracer, and ecosystem cycling

Byron C. Crump
bcrump@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Microbial ecology; bacterial and archeal diversity; organic matter and nutrient cycling; composition and development of microbial communities; influence of hydrodynamics and particle cycling on microbial activity

William Dennison
dennison@ca.umces.edu
web site
Coastal ecosystem ecology; ecophysiology of marine plants; bioindicators in nearshore environments; assessing ecosystem health

Keith N. Eshleman
eshleman@al.umces.edu
web site
Watershed and wetlands hydrology; groundwater/surface water interactions; biogeochemical processes in upland and wetland ecosystems; hydrochemical modeling; ecosystem interactions with land use change

Thomas R. Fisher, Jr.
fisher@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Nutrient inputs, cycling and primary production of aquatic systems; plankton-based systems in estuaries and the Amazon river floodplain

Patricia M. Glibert
glibert@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Transformations and fate of nitrogen in marine and estuarine systems; ecology of phytoplanktons; effects of eutrophication; growth and physiology of harmful algal bloom species

Lawrence W. Harding, Jr.
larry@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Biological oceanography; physiology and ecology of marine phytoplankton; seasonal and inter-annual variability of chlorophyll and primary productivity in estuarine and coastal waters; satellite remote sensing

Lora A. Harris
harris@cbl.umces.edu
web site
Systems ecology; theoretical ecology; primary producers from phytoplankton to macrophytes; ecosystem modeling

H. Rodger Harvey
harvey@cbl.umces.edu
web site
Organic geochemistry and biogeochemistry; sources and fate of organic compounds in aquatic environments; cycling of lipids through the marine food web

Raleigh Hood
raleigh@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Phytoplankton production and light response, modeling of primary production and pelagic ecosystems, phytoplankton physiology, bio-optical oceanography

Edward D. Houde
ehoude@cbl.umces.edu
web site
Fisheries science, oceanography, and management; larval fish ecology; resource assessment; biological oceanography

Todd M. Kana
kana@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Biological oceanography; algal and plant physiological ecology; regulation of photosynthesis and respiration; oxygen cycling in marine systems; application sof mass spectrometry

Michael S. Kearney
mkearne2@umd.edu
web site
Quaternary geomorphology; processes and rates of marsh loss; barrier island dynamics; applications of remote sensing to the study of coastal processes

W. Michael Kemp
kemp@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Coastal marine ecology; net community production; nutrient cycling; physical-biological coupling; benthic-pelagic interactions; ecosystem analysis; numerical models

Victor S. Kennedy
kennedy@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Reproduction and larval behavior and ecology of bivalves; crab and fish foraging behavior; ecology and dynamics of littoral and sublittoral benthic communities; global climate change

David Kimmel
dkimmel@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Zooplankton ecology in estuaries and coastal ecosystems, zooplankton physiology, quantitative ecology and climate impacts on ecosystems

Evamaria Koch
koch@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Hydrodynamically-mediated processes in communities of aquatic plants; impact of global changes on coastal plant communities

Ming Li
mingli@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Physical oceanography, estuarine/coastal circulations; upper-ocean dynamics; turbulant mixing processes, biological/physical interactions

Thomas Malone
malone@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Dynamics of marine ecosystems; phytoplankton ecology; coastal eutrophication

Roberta L. Marinelli
marinelli@cbl.umces.edu
web site
Sedimentary ecology; analytical and numerical modeling of benthic and water column dynamics; animal-sediment interactions; infaunal recruitment;benthic primary production; continental margin processes

Roger I. E. Newell
rnewell@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Marine ecology and physiology; adaptive physiology of aquatic invertebrates

Elizabeth North
enorth@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Biological-physical interactions: hydrodynamic and particle trajectory modeling, ichthyoplankton and zooplankton ecology, estuarine physical oceanography, fisheries recruitement variability

Judith O'Neil
joneil@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Cyanobacteria ecophysiology and plankton trophodynamics

Cindy Palinkas
cpalinkas@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Continental-margin sedimentation; formation and preservation of sedimentary strata in the geological record; deposition and accumulation of fluvial sediment in the coastal ocean

Karen L. Prestegaard
kpresto@umd.edu
web site
Sediment transport and depositional processes; mechanisms of streamflow generation and their variations with watershed scale, geology and land use; hydrology of coastal and riparian wetlands

Martin Rabenhorst
mrabenho@umd.edu
web site

Michael R. Roman
roman@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Biological oceanography; zooplankton ecology

Lawrence P. Sanford
lsanford@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Coastal and esturaine physical oceanography; fine sediment transport mechanics, geophysical boundary layers, turbulence, surface and internal waves

Diane Stoecker
stoecker@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Ecology and physiology of marine ciliates an dinoflagellates; mixotrophy in the plankton; microbial food web interactions

William Van Heukelem
heukelem@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Behavioral mechanisms of dispersal and recruitment of marine invertebrates; growth and development of juvenile marine invertebrates