University of Delaware
Graduate Catalog 1995-1996
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; also Director of
Marine Biology-Biochemistry Program: 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.
Bert G. Drake, Ph.D. (Utah State), Adjunct Professor: Photosynthesis and
water relations in marsh plants.
Charles E. Epifanio, Ph.D. (Duke), Professor: 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.
Norden E. Huang, Ph.D. (The Johns Hopkins University), Adjunct Professor:
Applications of remote sensing techniques in physical oceanography.
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), H. Rodney Sharp Professor Emeritus:
Maritime and international law; shipping, ports, marine minerals
policies.
James C. Pierce, Ph.D. (Temple University School of Medicine), Adjunct
Professor: Molecular genetics.
Jonathan H. Sharp, Ph.D. (Dalhousie), Professor: Marine organic chemistry;
phytoplankton physiology; estuarine and coastal biological chemistry.
Nancy M. Targett, Ph.D. (Maine), Professor: Chemical/biological
interactions in the marine environment; chemical ecology; antifouling
mechanisms in marine organisms.
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:
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.
Xiao-Hai Yan, Ph.D. (State University of New York at Stony Brook),
Professor: Satellite oceanography; remote sensing modeling and
prediction of air-sea exchange, mixed layer, wind, heat flux and ocean
circulation; image processing.
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.
Douglas C. Miller, Ph.D. (Washington), Associate Professor and Director,
Oceanography Program: 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.
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.
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.
S. Craig Cary, Ph.D. (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), 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.
Alain J. Veron, Ph.D. (University of Paris, Orsay), Assistant Professor:
The study of trace metal cycles in modern marine and continental
environments.
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.