University of Delaware
Graduate Catalog 1996-1997
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.
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 and Director, Marine Biology-
   Biochemistry Program: 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.
Kamlesh Lulla, Ph.D. (Indiana State), Adjunct Professor: Advanced remote
   sensing techniques to study ecosystem changes on a global scale, space
   shuttle observations of internal waves on continental shelves and tidal
   process.
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), University Research Professor: 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.
William G. Sunda, Ph.D. (M.I.T./WHOI), Adjunct Professor: Trace metal
   uptake by phytoplankton and biogeochemical cycling in the ocean.
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.
Michael D. Collins, Ph.D. (Northwestern), Adjunct Associate Professor:
   Propagation and inverse problems in ocean acoustics.
Marilyn L. Fogel, Ph.D. (Texas, Austin), Adjunct Associate Professor:
   Stable isotope biogeochemistry of estuarine and coastal processes.
Mohsen Badiey, Ph.D. (University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and
   Atmospheric Science), Associate Professor; also Associate Professor,
   Civil Engineering: Analytical and numerical modeling of geoacoustics and
   geophysics; seabed, laboratory and in-situ measurements related to
   seismo-acoustics problems.
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), Adjunct Associate Professor:
   Phytoplankton/Photosynthesis and optical properties, physiological
   adaption to light nutrients and temperature.
Anthony H. Knap, Ph.D. (Southampton Univ., U.K.), Adjunct Associate
   Professor: Organic geochemistry, biogeochemical and atmospheric
   processes that affect the deposition and fate of anthropogenic compounds
   in the ocean, marine environmental research.
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.
Julie La Roche, Ph.D. (Dalhousie), Adjunct Associate Professor: Biophysics
   and molecular biology of photosynthesis, active transport and energy
   transduction in microorganisms, applications of molecular biology
   techniques to problems of biological oceanography, marine ecology and
   biogeochemistry.
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.
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 A. Hutchins, Ph.D. (California-Santa Cruz), Assistant Professor:
   Affects on nutrient cycling on marine phytoplankton productivity,
   dynamics of pollutants within marine food web.
Willett M. Kempton, Ph.D. (Texas at Austin), Assistant Professor: Human
   dimensions of marine and environmental policy.
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.
Richard T. Field, Ph.D. (Delaware), Associate Scientist: Application of
   remote sensing to land surface climate studies, microclimatology of land
   surfaces.
Denise M. Seliskar, Ph.D. (Delaware), Research Scientist: Dune and wetland
   plant physiological ecology; tissue culture of dune plants.
Theodore D. Tomasi, Ph.D. (Michigan), Research Scientist: Natural resource
   and environmental economics, valuing environmental goods, growth and
   sustainability, nonpoint pollution.


Other University of Delaware faculty with joint appointments in the College
of Marine Studies:
   School of Life and Health Sciences:
   Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Herbert E. Allen,
      Alexander H-D. Cheng, Robert A. Dalrymple, Chin-Pao 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 Mechanical Engineering: Jack R. Vinson.
   Department of Philosophy: Nancy McCagney.
   Department of Political Science and International Relations: James K.
      Oliver, Richard Sylves.
   Department of Biological Sciences G. Fred Somers, Malcolm Taylor.
   University Parallel Program: Larry A. Curtis.
   College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy: John M. Byrne.