LMRCSC Research Faculty

 

 

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

 

 

  • Julius Alade, PhD.  Socio-economics of fisheries in the Maryland Coastal Bays.

 

  • Dwayne Boucaud, PhD.  Microbial diversity of coastal bays.

  • Paulinus Chigbu, Ph.D. 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

  • Joseph Dodoo, PhD. Use of Scanning Electron Microscope and X-ray microanalysis system to examine morphology of mollusc shells, and metal analysis of biogenic hard structures in marine organisms to study habitat contamination and the early life history of fish.

 

  • Ali Ishaque, PhD.  Identifying a single molecular biomarker that measures exposure, effect and susceptibility to carcinogens.  Studying the effects of mixtures of chemical stressors (non-essential metals and stable xenobiotics) on ecosystems.

  • Andrea Johnson, PhD. Assessment of fish health using physiological biomarkers, fish physiology, reproductive endocrinology.

  • Gerald Kananen, PhD.  Qualitative and quantitative analysis of volatile organic components and contaminants of aquatic samples; the isolation of natural and invasive organic components of water samples.

     

  • Joey Love, PhD. Fisheries community ecology, suitability modeling, restoration ecology.

     

  • Eric May, PhD.  The use of biochemical and metabolic indicators to determine the response of fish to injurious agents or conditions; establishment of clinical methods as a means of non-lethal testing of wild and cultured stocks.  Development of programs related to determining the effect of environmental damage on resident aquatic organisms; application of fish health management approaches for use in aquaculture and wild stocks.

  • Madhumi Mitra, PhD. Submerged Aquatic Vegetation as essential fisheries habitat, factors impacting eelgrass decline in the coastal bays and the resultant changes in the fisheries habitat.

 

  • Joseph Pitula, Ph.D. Genetics, Protozoology

     

  • Dinesh Sharma, PhD.  Socio-economics of fisheries in the Maryland Coastal Bays.

 

  • Yan Waguespack, PhD.  Sublethal physiological effects of heavy metal on aquatic organisms.  Heavy metal detection on plants and sediments.

 

  • Shawn White, PhD.  Development of analytical methods for trace level organic pollutants in aqueous samples such as PCBs, herbicides and pesticides, using gas chromatography-mass spectrometer, the development of in situ methods of chemical analysis using fiber optics to stretch the reach of conventional instruments, the use of materials such as large bond gap semiconductors in conjunction with spectroscopy for optical temperature sensing.

 

 

Delaware State University

 

  • Dewayne Fox, PhD. Fish Ecology, essential fish habitat. Distribution of larval and juvenile estuarine-dependent species.  Ecology of anadromous fish species.

 

  • Gulnihal Ozbay, PhD.  Effects of plankton composition and nutritional quality on growth and survival of late larval early juvenile fish.  Environmental factors influencing SAV distribution.  Factors triggering harmful algal blooms in estuarine environments.

 

  • Dennis McIntosh, Ph.D. Freshwater and marine aquaculture, water quality, integrated aquaculture/agriculture, aquaculture effluents, recirculation technology.


 

 

 

 

Hampton University

 

  • George Burbanck, PhD.  Sediment Analysis.  Heavy metals present in runoff to the Hampton River. Heavy-mineral concentrations present in ancient East Coast placer deposits.

 

  • Benjamin Cuker, PhD.  Zooplankton Ecology. Effects of turbidity in predator/prey relations, zooplankton diversity as a measure of productivity in coastal waters

 

  • Deidre Gibson, PhD.  Gelatinous zooplankton ecology.  The role of gelatinous zooplankton in the feeding ecology of flounder.

 

  • Robert Jordan, PhD.  Zooplankton Ecology.  Age distribution of coastal scallop populations. Presence and diversity of various amoebae in the Hampton Roads area.

 

  

Savannah State University 

 

 

  • Dionne Hoskins, PhD. Benthic ecology, microbial ecology, feeding ecology of benthic organisms.

  
  • Carla Curran, PhD.   Fish biology, marsh ecology.
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  •  Matthew Giligan, PhD.  Ichthyology, Biogeography and ecology of coastal migratory and tropical marine reef fishes; biology of live-bottom reefs of the inner- and midshelf of the South Atlantic Bight.

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  • Carol Pride, PhD.  Paleoceanography, marine sediments. Oceanography, Biological Oceanography, Marine Records of Climate Change.

     

 

 UMBI Center of Marine Biotechnology

  • Rosemary Jagus, PhD. Regulation of translation in eukaryotes, evolution of eIF4E family, translation control in zebrafish development, molecular pathogenesis in fish.

     

  • Allen Place, PhD. Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms that permit organisms to adapt to unique diets, environments, and interactions (symbiosis) - Molecular basis of sex determination.

     

  • Harold Schreirer, PhD. Research on nitrogen metabolism in Bacillus subtilis - Control of glutamine synthetase operon expression - Regulation of gene expression - Adaptation of bacteria in extreme environments - Genetic control of carbon metabolism in the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus- Regulation of bop expression in the extremely halophilic archaeon Halobacterium NRC-1.

     

  • John Trant, PhD. Steroid endocrinology with special emphasis on reproduction in fish - Molecular control of steroidogenesis at the cellular level - Isolation, identification, and determination of biological function of novel piscine steroids.

     

  • Gerrardo Vasta, PhD. Molecular and cell biology of shellfish and finfish immune systems - Molecular mechanisms of protein-carbohydrate interactions that will mediate non-self and cell-cell recognition - Structure and function of lectins and other recognition molecules (acute phase proteins, pentraxins).

     

  • Yonathan Zohar, PhD. Physiology, molecular and cellular endocrinology of fish reproduction and hormonal control of gametogenesis - Technologies for the manipulation of fish spawning for application in aquaculture and fisheries - Controlled delivery of hormones and other compounds into finfish.

     

University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

  • David Die, PhD. Fisheries management, fish stock assessment, bio-economics.

     

  • \Nelson Ehrhardt, PhD. Fishery research and management; marine population dynamics analysis and modeling, fisheries oceanography.

 
   

 

 

 
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