tiaighewi@umes.edu
Environmental quality/health; soil-water pollution/watershed management; environmental soil chemistry; food safety; geographical information systems applications

elbass@umes.edu
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Ecotoxicology, comparative biology, environmental disruptors: sources, physiological effects, and implications for ecosystem health; Vitellogenin production in fish as an indicator of hormonally active agents in the environment; environmental endocrine disruptors in poultry litter

cbbrooks@mail.umes.edu
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Molecular Biology; development of microbial insecticides; biological nitrogen fixation; pathogenic microbiology; plant call/tissue culture

pchigbu@umes.edu
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Fisheries ecology; influence of variations in climatic factors on water quality and biota; culture of rotifers and copepods for use in rearing marine fish larvae; trophic dynamics in marine and freshwater environments; zooplankton ecology

rbdadson@mail.umes.edu
International programs in soybean breeding; insect resistance of soybeans; agronomy and breeding of food enzymes; biological nitrogen fixation

jdodoo@umes-bird.umd.edu
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Application of TG/MS/GC to the study of the spontaneous conbustion of low rank coals and lignites

tshandwerker@mail.umes.edu
Innovative agricultural technology of small-scale alternative crops, specialty crops; hydroponic greenhouse production; poultry waste composting

jmharter-dennis@mail.umes.edu
Nutritional requirements of roaster chickens; reduction of carcass fat in broilers and roasters; bone abnormalities of chickens

geheath@mail.umes.edu
Physiology and pharmacology; food safety and drug residues; pharmacokinetics of drugs in the tissue and fluids of food-producing animals; microorganisms in food

abishaque@mail.umes.edu
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marine ecotoxicology - behavior, transport, distribution and fate of chemical stressors in marine environments

akjohnson@mail.umes.edu
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Assessing the health of Atlantic menhaden using several biomarkers of fish health: indicators of tissue damage, nutritional status and exposure to environmental stresors, immune function and disease

jjoshi@mail.umes.edu
Plant breeding and genetics; host plant and insect resistance in soybeans; sustainable agriculture

ebmay@mail.umes.edu
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Effects of environmental contamination and habitat degradation on aquatic animal health; use of biochemical and metabolic indicators to determine the response of fish to injurious agents of conditions; establishment of clinical methods for non-lethal testing

mmitra@mail.umes.edu
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Paleontology, paleocology and paleoenvironmental studies of cretaceous-quaternary sediments of atlantic coastal plain; factors impacting the decline of submerged aquatic vegetation; phytoplankton dynamics

tamollett@mail.umes.edu
Role of hormones in animal growth, reproduction and lactation

anagchaudhuri@umes.edu
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Integration of advanced technologies of mechatronics in the fields of precision agriculture, environmental, marine and geosciences; remote sensing and image analysis

jmokoh@mail.umes.edu
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Carbon reaction chemistry; relationship between carbon dioxide and evolution of volatiles implicated in spontaneous combustion; effects of fly ash on mercury oxidation

sparveen@mail.umes.edu
Genotypic and phenotypic methods for detecting sources of fecal pollution in aquatic environments; rapid molecular and immunological methods for detection of water and food borne pathogens; improvement of safety and quality characteristics of seafood, poultry, produce

jspitula@mail.umes.edu
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Transition metals and metabolism

deruby@mail.umes.edu
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Population ecology and behavior of reptiles; sexual selection and mating systems of vertebrates; territoriality and agonistic behavior; biogeography; conservation biology of amphibians and reptilesecology

jsingleton@mail.umes.edu
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Identification and characterization of arthropod sensory structures; arthropod community population dynamics on host animals, aquatic and crop environments; arthropod disease vectors

yywaguespack@mail.umes.edu
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Sublethal physiological effects of heavy metal on aquatic organisms; heavy metal detection on plants and soil; spectroscopic studies of biological AOT reversed micelles, CdS nanoparticles and novel organo gel systems