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.