Graduate Catalog 1993-1994 College of Marine Studies Faculty in the Graduate Program CHARLES ALBISETTI, PH.D. (NORTHWESTERN), Adjunct Professor: Organic chemistry; marine biopolymers. LEE G. ANDERSON, PH.D. (WASHINGTON), Professor and Director, Marine Policy Program; also Professor, Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics; also Professor, Applied Mathematics Institute: Economics of commercial and recreational fisheries management. ELLIS T. BOLTON, PH.D. (RUTGERS), Professor Emeritus: Mariculture. JOHN S. BOYER, PH.D. (DUKE), E.I. du Pont Professor of Marine Biochemistry; also Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Science: Water in the biochemistry and physiology of marine and terrestrial plants. MELBOURNE R. CARRIKER, PH.D. (WISCONSIN), Professor Emeritus: Bivalve shell chemistry and ultrastructure; estuarine ecology; mariculture; enhanced interaction with Latin America and Caribbean scientists. THOMAS M. CHURCH, PH.D. (CALIFORNIA, LA JOLLA), Professor; also Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Science: Estuarine and atmospheric geochemistry; trace- element marine chemistry. BILIANA CICIN-SAIN, PH.D. (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES), Professor and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Marine Policy; also Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, College of Arts and Science; also Professor, College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy: U.S. ocean policy; management of multiple ocean and coastal uses; state/federal relations; fisheries management; comparative ocean policy. FRANKLIN C. DAIBER, PH.D. (OHIO STATE), Professor Emeritus; also Professor Emeritus, School of Life and Health Sciences: Tidal marsh ecology; ichthyology. GEORGE M. DAVIS, PH.D. (MICHIGAN), Adjunct Professor: Malacology; systematics; biochemistry; ecology; genetics. ROBERT G. DEAN, SC.D. (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY), Adjunct Professor: Beach erosion; tidal inlets; coastal structures; wave forces. STEPHEN C. DEXTER, PH.D. (DELAWARE), Professor; also Professor of Metallurgy and Materials, College of Engineering: Electrochemical corrosion; biologically influenced corrosion; structural materials in marine environments; bioadhesion. CHARLES E. EPIFANIO, PH.D. (DUKE), Professor and Associate Dean: Larval ecology; tropical ecology. JOHN L. GALLAGHER, PH.D. (DELAWARE), Professor: Marine plant ecology, physiology, genetics, tissue culture, and economic development. RICHARD W. GARVINE, PH.D. (PRINCETON), Professor: Physical oceanography of the coastal ocean and estuaries; observations and models. RONALD J. GIBBS, PH.D. (SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY), Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Colloidal Science: Geochemistry; sedimentology; clay mineralogy; environmental studies. DAVID L. KIRCHMAN, PH.D. (HARVARD), Professor: Biochemical microbiology; marine microbial ecology; oceanography. VICTOR V. KLEMAS, PH.D. (TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG, GERMANY), Professor and Director, Applied Ocean Science Program; also Professor, Department of Geography, College of Arts and Science; and Director, Center for Remote Sensing: Remote sensing of marine and coastal resources; environmental monitoring and data management; optical physics. ROBERT W. KNECHT, M.S. (RHODE ISLAND), Professor and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Marine Policy; also Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, College of Arts and Science; also Professor, College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy: Ocean and coastal management; ocean minerals; ocean policy; international ocean and environmental law. GEORGE W. LUTHER III, PH.D. (PITTSBURGH), Professor; also Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Science: Marine chemistry; element redox cycles; inorganic and organic sulfur cycling. GERARD J. MANGONE, PH.D. (HARVARD), Research Professor: Maritime and international law; shipping, ports, marine minerals policies. JONATHAN H. SHARP, PH.D. (DALHOUSIE), Professor: Marine organic chemistry; phytoplankton physiology; estuarine and coastal biological chemistry. J. HERBERT WAITE, PH.D. (DUKE), Professor; also Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Science: Protein chemistry; marine fouling; quinone tanning in marine invertebrates. FERRIS WEBSTER, PH.D. (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY), Professor and Director, Oceanography Program; also Director, Oceanographic Data Management Center: The role of the ocean in climate variability; oceanographic data processing. JIN WU, PH.D. (IOWA), H. Fletcher Brown Professor; also H. Fletcher Brown Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering: Environmental and geophysical fluid dynamics; air-sea interaction. ROBERT B. BIGGS, PH.D. (LEHIGH), Adjunct Associate Professor: Trace- element geochemistry; suspended organic and inorganic matter. JAMES BROADUS, PH.D. (YALE), Adjunct Associate Professor: Industrial organization, environmental and marine resource economics. BERT G. DRAKE, PH.D. (UTAH STATE), Adjunct Associate Professor: Photosynthesis and water relations in marsh plants. MARILYN L. FOGEL, PH.D. (TEXAS, AUSTIN), Adjunct Associate Professor: Stable isotope biogeochemistry of estuarine and coastal processes. PATRICK M. GAFFNEY, PH.D. (STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK), Associate Professor: Genetics of marine organisms; aquacultural genetics. DOUGLAS C. MILLER, PH.D. (WASHINGTON), Associate Professor: Deposit- feeding strategies; trophic interactions among organisms; organism- flow-sediment interactions; design of experiments. TAVIT O. NAJARIAN, PH.D. (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY), Adjunct Associate Professor: Hydrodynamics modeling; water quality simulation; estuarine eutrophication dynamics. DONALD B. NUZZIO, PH.D. (RUTGERS), Adjunct Associate Professor: Electrochemistry and chromatography applications to analysis of trace constituents of seawater. GEORGE R. PARSONS, PH.D. (WISCONSIN), Associate Professor; also Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics: Environmental and natural resource economics; coastal zone management. KENT S. PRICE, JR., PH.D. (DELAWARE), Associate Professor and Director, Marine Advisory Service; also Associate Professor, School of Life and Health Sciences: Marine pollution ecology and fisheries ecology; mariculture. NANCY M. TARGETT, PH.D. (MAINE), Associate Professor and Director, Marine Biology-Biochemistry Program: Chemical/biological interactions in the marine environment; chemical ecology; antifouling mechanisms in marine organisms. TIMOTHY E. TARGETT, PH.D. (MAINE), Associate Professor: Ecology of estuarine and coastal marine fishes; physiological ecology of feeding, digestion, growth; tropical biology; energetics. CAROLYN A. THOROUGHGOOD, PH.D. (MARYLAND), Associate Professor; also Dean; also Associate Professor, Department of Food Science, College of Agricultural Sciences; and Director, Delaware Sea Grant Program: Nutritional biochemistry of bivalve molluscs; nutritional evaluation and preservation of fish. WILLIAM J. ULLMAN, PH.D. (CHICAGO), Associate Professor; also Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, College of Arts and Science: Geochemical cycles; rock/water interactions; coastal, estuarine, and nearshore processes. PAUL L. WOLF, PH.D. (DELAWARE), Adjunct Associate Professor: Tidal marsh ecology. KUO-CHUIN WONG, PH.D. (STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK), Associate Professor: Physical oceanography; estuarine and coastal dynamics; time series analysis. XIAO-HAI YAN, PH.D. (STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK), Associate Professor: Satellite oceanography; remote sensing modeling and prediction of air-sea exchange, mixed layer, wind, heat flux and ocean circulation; image processing. MOHSEN BADIEY, PH.D. (UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE), Assistant Professor: Analytical and numerical modeling of geoacoustics and geophysics; seabed, laboratory and in-situ measurements related to seismo-acoustics problems. RICHARD J. GEIDER, PH.D. (DALHOUSIE), Assistant Professor: Phytoplankton photosynthesis and optical properties; physiological adaptation to light nutrients and temperature. FRANK R. HALL, PH.D. (RHODE ISLAND), Assistant Professor: Magnetic properties of sediments; magnetic mineralogy; environmental interpretations; paleomagnetic interpretations. REGINAL M. HARRELL, PH.D. (SOUTH CAROLINA), Adjunct Assistant Professor: Warmwater aquaculture/finfish; fish hybridization, physiology, genetics, nutrition; freshwater and estuarine ecology; freshwater fisheries management; fisheries and community ecology; fisheries/aquaculture extension and education; hatchery design and operation; closed system design and operation; fisheries administration. I. PABLO HUQ, PH.D. (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE), Assistant Professor: Turbulence in the environment; stratified flow phenomena; experimental fluid mechanics. DAVID E. KRANTZ, PH.D. (SOUTH CAROLINA), Assistant Professor; also Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, College of Arts and Science: Stable isotope geochemistry; mollusc ecology and paleoecology; paleoceanography; marine geology. EVELYN M. MAURMEYER, PH.D. (DELAWARE), Adjunct Assistant Professor: Coastal geomorphology; beach and nearshore processes. JOHN D. MCCALPIN, PH.D. (FLORIDA STATE), Assistant Professor: Analysis of convergence of numerical techniques used in ocean models; effects of numerical errors on the interpretation of oceanic flows. WILLIAM H. MEREDITH, PH.D. (DELAWARE), Adjunct Assistant Professor: Estuarine ecology; wetlands management; mosquito control. JOHN H. TROWBRIDGE, PH.D. (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY), Adjunct Assistant Professor: Coastal hydrodynamics and sediment transport processes, including water wave mechanics, boundary layers, and wave- and current-induced sediment transport mechanics. CHARLES H. CULBERSON, PH.D. (OREGON STATE), Associate Research Scientist: Physical chemistry and electrochemistry of seawater; mathematical modeling of estuarine chemical processes. ANA I. DITTEL, PH.D. (DELAWARE), Associate Research Scientist: Larval biology; recruitment dynamics; tropical biology. LESZEK M. RZEPECKI, PH.D. (BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND), Associate Research Scientist: Molecular biology and structure/function relationships of bioadhesives. DENISE M. SELISKAR, PH.D. (DELAWARE), Associate Research Scientist: Dune and wetland plant physiological ecology; tissue culture of dune plants. Other University of Delaware faculty with joint appointments in the College of Marine Studies: Department of Civil Engineering: ALEXANDER H-D. CHENG, ROBERT A. DALRYMPLE, C.P. HUANG, JAMES T. KIRBY, NOBUHISA KOBAYASHI, IB A. SVENDSEN. Department of Economics: RICHARD J. AGNELLO. Department of Electrical Engineering: GONZALO R. ARCE, CHARLES IH. Department of Geography: CORT WILLMOTT. Department of Geology: BILLY P. GLASS, JOHN C. KRAFT, JOHN A. MADSEN, RONALD E. MARTIN, SUSAN MCGEARY, JOHN F. WEHMILLER. Department of Mathematical Sciences: ROBERT P. GILBERT. Department of Mechanical Engineering: JACK R. VINSON. Department of Political Science and International Relations: JAMES K. OLIVER, RICHARD SYLVES. School of Life and Health Sciences: G. FRED SOMERS, DAVID SMITH, MALCOLM TAYLOR. University Parallel Program: LARRY A. CURTIS. College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy: JOHN M. BYRNE.