Graduate Catalog 1994-1995
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.
JAMES M. BROADUS, PH.D. (YALE), Adjunct Professor: Market organization and
   public policy, natural resources, energy and environmental economics,
   organization and regulation of marine resource industries, processes
   leading to development of nontraditional natural resources, marine
   minerals and seabed mining, preproduction behavior in new industries,
   international cartels and antitrust, role of marine resources and marine
   policy in developing nations.
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.
BERT G. DRAKE, PH.D. (UTAH STATE), Adjunct Professor: Photosynthesis and
   water relations in marsh plants.
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), M.P. and M.H. Harrington Professor
   of Marine Studies: 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; also Professor,
   Geology: 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; also Professor,
   Electrical Engineering; 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 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: 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.
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.
RICHARD J. GEIDER, PH.D. (DALHOUSIE), Associate Professor: Phytoplankton
   photosynthesis and optical properties; physiological adaptation to light
   nutrients and temperature.
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 Associate
   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.
JAMES W. ROTTMAN, PH.D. (CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO), Adjunct Associate
   Professor: Modeling of shiptrack plumes and cloud formation in the
   atmosphere.
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; trophic 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 Associate
   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; also Assistant Professor,
   Civil Engineering: Analytical and numerical modeling of geoacoustics and
   geophysics; seabed, laboratory and in-situ measurements related to
   seismo-acoustics problems.
CRAIG CARY, PH.D. (CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO), Assistant Professor: Comparative
   physiology, biochemistry and ecology of marine invertebrate/bacterial
   symbioses with focus on use of molecular techniques to resolve
   biochemical interactions between host and symbiont.
FRANK R. HALL, PH.D. (RHODE ISLAND), Assistant Professor; also Assistant
   Professor, Geology: 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), 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.
DENISE M. SELISKAR, PH.D. (DELAWARE), 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.