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.