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FACULTY BY ALPHABETICAL ORDER ~ FACULTY BY DISCIPLINE ~ AFFILIATED RESEARCHERS |
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| Brian Bradley | UMBC - BIOL | BO, MB | Zooplankton physiology and genetics, environmental molecular biology, temperature/salinity stress |
| Claire Welty | UMBC - BIOL | BO | Contributing to fundamental understanding of transport processes in aquifers;Mathematical modeling of groundwater flow and transport in porous and fractured media;Application of stochastic methods to interpreting groundwater problems;Design and analysis of field-scale hydraulic and tracer tests |
| Thomas Cronin | UMBC - BIOL | BO | Visual physiology of invertebrates, especially of marine and estuarine crustaceans. |
| Feng Chen | UMBI | BO, MB | Bacterio- and phyto-plankton production, biomass and growth in aquatic environments; ecological interaction among marine viruses, bacteria and phytoplankton; genetic diversity of microorganisms in marine environments; phylogenetic relationship and co-evolution among marine microorganisms |
| Russell Hill | UMBI | BO, MB | Marine microbial ecology; molecular characterization of microbial communities; bioactive compounds from marine bacteria; microbial symbionts of sponges and other marine invertebrates |
| Anwar Huq | UMBI | MB | Transmission of aquatic bacterial pathogens, their molecular ecology and direct detection, using sensing and aerospace technology; development and optimization of rapid detection of aquatic pathogens, using molecular and immunological methods, and application of these methods in the field |
| Allen Place | UMBI | BO | Biochemistry; biochemical adaptations in marine organisms, especially in sea birds, fish, and marine invertebrates |
| Kevin Sowers | UMBI | BO, MB | Anaerobic microbiology; regulation of gene expression in methane-producing Archaea; anaerobic bioremediation in the marine environment |
| Yonathan Zohar | UMBI | FO, MB | Fish physiology, aquaculture and endocrinology; environmental and hormonal regulation of fish reproductive cycles, spawning induction technologies, drug delivery in aquaculture, molecular biotechnology |
| Donald Boesch | UMCES - CA | BO, CS | Marine and estuarine ecology; benthic communities and sediment dynamics; marine pollution; marine policy; environmental and natural resources management; science-management interactions |
| William Dennison | UMCES - CA | BO, CS | Interactions of environmental factors and plant productivity; marine ecology of the coastal ocean; seagrass, mangrove and coral ecophysiology; bioindicators of eutrophication in nearshore environments |
| Robert Anderson | UMCES - CBL | BO, MB | Immunology; toxicology of organic pollutants; cellular and immune responses of invertebrate organic toxins; carcinogenicity of environmental pollutants |
| Walter Boynton | UMCES - CBL | BO | Environmental/sanitary engineering; systems ecology; materials budgets and nutrient cycling in estuarine systems; food web studies |
| Lee Cooper | UMCES - CBL | CO, BO | Environmental Chemistry/Toxicology |
| Rodger Harvey | UMCES - CBL | CO, BO, CS | Organic geochemistry and biogeochemistry; sources and fate of organic compounds in aquatic environments; cycling of lipids through the marine food web |
| Edward Houde | UMCES - CBL | FO, BO, CS | Fisheries science, oceanography, and management; larval fish ecology; resource assessment |
| Dennis King | UMCES - CBL | BO, CS | Environmental Economics; ecological economics, ecosystem restoration, ecosystem valuation |
| Thomas Miller | UMCES - CBL | FO, BO | Fisheries ecology, life history, feeding and recruitment in fishes, quantitative methods in ecology, physical-biological interactions |
| Carys Mitchelmore | UMCES - CBL | BO, MB | Investigating molecular, biochemical and cellular responses of aquatic organisms to inorganic and organic pollutants; determining species-specificity; biochemical pathways and toxic effects; applying and developing novel biomarkers to existing and emerging environmental problems |
| Margaret Palmer | UMCES - CBL | BO, CS | Aquatic ecology; stream and estuarine ecology; hydrodynamics; meiofaunal ecology |
| Kennedy Paynter | UMCES - CBL | BO | Molluscan physiology; oyster disease physiology; oyster restoration; oyster reef ecology |
| Johan Schijf | UMCES - CBL | CO | Biogeochemical processes that control the cycling of a variety of trace metals in natural waters |
| David Secor | UMCES - CBL | FO | Fisheries ecology, demographics, migration, anadromous fishes, fisheries enhancement |
| Marcelino Suzuki | UMCES - CBL | BO, MB | Aquatic microbial ecology, microbial oceanography,application of molecular techniques to the study of diversity and function of aquatic microbial communities. Gene expression in the environment. molecular phylogenetics. Photoheterotrophy. |
| Mario Tamburri | UMCES - CBL | BO | Coastal sensor technologies; Chemical ecology of aquatic organisms; Non-native species; Larval settlement and recruitment |
| Robert E. Ulanowicz | UMCES - CBL | BO | Analysis of ecological networks; information theory in ecology; theory of organization; thermodynamical ecology |
| Michael Wilberg | UMCES - CBL | FO, BO | Improving fisheries management by applying population dynamics theory and quantitative methods to support sustainable fisheries management. |
| David Wright | UMCES - CBL | CO | Comparative physiology; effects of inorganic pollutants of marine and estuarine organisms; biotoxicity assays |
| William Boicourt | UMCES - HPL | BO | Physical oceanography; shelf and estuarine circulation; plankton transport; instrumentation |
| Shenn-Yu Chao | UMCES - HPL | PO | Physical oceanography; continental shelf processes; western boundary current dynamics; lower atmosphere circulations; estuarine circulations; numerical modeling of mesoscale processes in the ocean |
| Louis Codispoti | UMCES - HPL | CO, PO, CS | Arctic Ocean processes, nutrient and carbon budgets, descriptive physical oceanography, coastal upwelling and chemical oceanographic instrumentation |
| Victoria Coles | UMCES - HPL | PO, BO, CS | Observation and modeling of large scale ocean circulation, bio-geo-chemical tracer distributions |
| Jeffrey Cornwell | UMCES - HPL | CO, MG | Chemical oceanography; sediment biogeochemistry; nutrient, metal, and sulfur cycling in estuaries and wetlands |
| Byron Crump | UMCES - HPL | BO, MB | Linking the composition and activity of natural microbial communities to the physical composition, biogeochemical processes, and food web structure of planktonic and benthic ecosystems. |
| Thomas Fisher | UMCES - HPL | BO, CO | CNP biogeochemistry and primary production in aquatic systems; nutrient inputs to aquatic systems from terrestrial and atmospheric sources |
| Patricia Glibert | UMCES - HPL | BO | Biological oceanography; ecology of phytoplankton in coastal and oceanic environments; transformations and fate of nitrogen in marine and estuarine systems; control of nitrogen cycling; primary productivity and its regulation by environmental factors; growth and physiology of marine cyanobacteria |
| Lawrence Harding | UMCES - HPL | BO, CS | Biological oceanography; phytoplankton physiology and ecology; marine biochemistry; estuarine and coastal processes; ocean remote sensing |
| Raleigh Hood | UMCES - HPL | BO | Phytoplankton production and light response; modeling of primary production and pelagic ecosystems; phytoplankton physiology; bio-optical oceanography |
| Todd Kana | UMCES - HPL | BO | Biological oceanography; algal and plant physiological ecology; regulation of photosynthesis and respiration; oxygen cycling in marine systems; applications of mass spectrometry |
| Michael Kemp | UMCES - HPL | BO | Systems ecology; ecosystem modeling; ecosystem production and respiration; trophic structure and ecosystem energetics; seagrass ecology; sediment nitrogen cycling |
| Victor Kennedy | UMCES - HPL | BO, CS | Marine ecology; reproduction, physiological ecology, and behavior of aquatic benthic organisms, emphasizing bivalves and their larvae; effects of global change |
| Evamaria Koch | UMCES - HPL | BO, PO | Hydrodynamically-mediated processes in marine macrophyte systems, especially seagrasses; global seagrass monitoring (SeagrassNet); the effect of global change on coastal plant communities with a focus on sea-level rise/coastal erosion, increased ultraviolet radiation, and elevated CO2. |
| Ming Li | UMCES - HPL | PO | Physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, ocean mixing processes, numerical ocean modeling, biological/physical interactions and marine pollution |
| Thomas Malone | UMCES - HPL | BO | Biological phytoplankton ecology; nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystems, role of science in developing marine policy |
| Roger Newell | UMCES - HPL | BO | Marine ecology and physiology; adaptive physiology of aquatic invertebrates |
| Elizabeth North | UMCES - HPL | PO, BO, FO, CS | Biological-physical interactions: hydrodynamic and particle trajectory modeling, ichthyoplankton and zooplankton ecology, estuarine physical oceanography, fisheries recruitment variability. |
| Judith O'Neil | UMCES - HPL | BO | Cyanobacteria ecophysiology and plankton trophodynamics |
| Cindy Palinkas | UMCES - HPL | MG, CS | Continental-margin sedimentation; formation and preservation of sedimentary strata in the geological record; deposition and accumulation of fluvial sediment in the coastal ocean. |
| Michael Roman | UMCES - HPL | BO, CS | Biological oceanography; zooplankton ecology |
| Lawrence Sanford | UMCES - HPL | PO, MG | Coastal and estuarine physical oceanography; fine sediment transport mechanics; geophysical boundary layers, turbulence, surface and internal waves |
| Diane Stoecker | UMCES - HPL | BO | Feeding, growth and physiological adaptations of marine protists; role of heterotrophic and mixotrophic protists in food webs of estuarine, coastal, oceanic, and ice-covered waters |
| Court Stevenson | UMCES - HPL | BO, CS | Wetlands ecology; dynamics of seagrass and submersed aquatic vegetation, nonpoint source pollution impacts on water quality, impacts of global change on coastal ecosystems |
| Joaquim Ballabrera | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO, CS | Ocean data assimilation |
| Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO, CS | Climate dynamics |
| Antonio Busalacchi | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO, CS | Ocean remote sensing, tropical climate variability |
| James Carton | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO, CS | Physical oceanography; tropical oceanography; ocean modeling; atmosphere/ocean interactions |
| Gennady Chepurin | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO | Data analysis, data assimilation |
| Russell Dickerson | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO, CO | Surface air fluxes, air chemistry |
| Bruce Doddridge | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO, CO | Surface air fluxes, air chemistry |
| Menglin Jin | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO | SST retrievals |
| Eugenia Kalnay | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO | Dynamics, data assimilation |
| Raghurum Murtugudde | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO, BO, CS | Tropical climate, giogeochemical cycles |
| Sumant Nigam | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO, CS | Climate dynamics, data analysis |
| Eugene Rasmusson | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO, CS | Climate dynamics, data analysis |
| B. Mete Uz | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO, BO | Coupling and feedbacks between physical and biological systems, air-sea interaction, remote sensing, autonomous in situ measurements for interdisciplinary oceanography |
| Roxana Wajsowicz | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO | Geophysical fluid dynamics |
| Xiujun Wendy Wang | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
CO, BO | Marine ecosystem, biogeochemical processes,carbon cycle |
| Dalin Zhang | UMCP Atmos. & Oceanic. Sci. |
PO, CS | Mesoscale meteorology, hurricanes, air-sea fluxes |
| Marjorie Reaka-Kudla | UMCP Biology | BO | Marine ecology; coral reef ecology; bioerosion of coral reefs; ecology of infaunal animals |
| Eugene Small | UMCP Biology | BO | Estuarine and marine protozoology; systematics, phylogeny, comparative ultrastructure, life history of Chesapeake Bay ciliated protozoa |
| Andrew Baldwin | UMCP Biological Resources Engineering | BO, CS | Wetland ecology; plant community dynamics of coastal marshes and mangroves; disturbance and regeneration ecology of wetland vegetation; wetland seed banks; influence of sea level rise on wetlands; community and ecosystem processes of created and restored wetlands; nutrient effects on wetland plant communities |
| Ronald Weiner | UMCP Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics | MB | Microbiology; morphogenesis of marine procaryotes; shellfish-bacterial interactions; bioconcentration of toxic chemicals by microbial biofilms |
| Neil Blough | UMCP Chemistry and Biochemistry | CO | Photochemical and free radical reactions in the environment including the role of metals and metal-organic complexes in these processes; development of molecular probes to examine these processes in biological and environmental systems |
| Kaye Brubaker | UMCP Engineering | PO | Physical hydrology; numerical modeling; stream and estuary water-quality modeling; water vapor transport; hydroclimatology; land-atmosphere interactions |
| Michael Kearney | UMCP Geography | MG, CS | Quaternary and coastal geology; pollen-analytical investigations of tidal marsh sediments in Chesapeake Bay; barrier islands; estuarine sedimentation |
| Karen L. Prestegaard | UMCP Geology | MG | Watershed and wetland hydrology; sediment transport mechanisms |
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