ROSTER OF SUPPORT SCIENTISTS FOR BART
|
Name |
Address |
Office Phone |
FAX |
E-mail |
Expertise
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August, Peter |
Coastal Institute |
(401) 874-6513 |
(401) 874-6869 |
pete@edc.uri.edu |
GIS, Local logistics. |
|
Belkin, Igor |
|
(401) 874-6533 |
(401) 874-6728 |
ibelkin@gso.uri.edu |
Physical Geography; Ocean fronts, their
geographical distribution patterns, physical structure, temporal variability,
and diverse manifestations and applications; Formation and propagation of
large-scale temperature/salinity/sea ice anomalies in the |
|
Beutel, David |
Rhode Island Sea Grant |
(401) 874-7152 |
(401) |
dbeutel@uri.edu |
Fishing techniques and gear; Fishery issues; Operation of nets, other
fishing gear on the Research Vessel Cap’n Bert. |
|
Boothroyd, Jon |
Department
of Geosciences, CELS |
(401)
874-2265 |
(401)874-2190 |
Jon_Boothroyd@uri.edu |
Coastal geology; Shore and shallow water geologic
habitats and processes; ESI Index for spill
hydrocarbons; High-resolution, shallow
water, side-scan sonar; R/V Gilbert, 25’ workboat with
certified captain. |
|
Brown, Wendell |
|
(508) 910-6395 |
(508) 999-8197 |
wbrown@umassd.edu |
Coastal ocean dynamics, especially
the use of observations and numerical models of Winter storm response in terms
of sea level and current variability, and winter mixed layer evolution; Air-sea heat transfer in
estuaries; Assimilation of ocean data into
numerical coastal ocean circulation models. |
|
Byron,
Carrie |
|
(508) 498-4575 |
|
carriebyron@mail.uri.edu |
Marine aquatic ecology; Experimental design and analysis Aquaculture. |
|
Castro, Kathy |
Rhode Island Sea Grant |
(401) 874-5063 |
(401) 789-8930 |
kcastro@uri.edu |
Fisheries management, habitat
and resource enhancement; Crustacean biology and behavior,
especially in relation to fisheries and fishing gear; Regional lobster science and
management issues; SCUBA diving. |
|
Clark,
Kate |
NOAA, ORR |
(401) 782-3235 |
(404) 782-3201 |
Katie.clark@noaa.gov |
Point of Contact for NOAA,
Office of Response and Restoration NRDA; Coastal ecology. |
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Codiga,
Dan |
|
(401) 874-6212 |
(401) 874-6728 |
d.codiga@gso.uri.edu |
Estuarine and coastal
circulation and transport dynamics; Measurement, analysis, and interpretation
of hydrographic properties and water velocities using vessel-based surveys
and moored instruments; Systems for real-time data
collection and distribution. |
|
Colin, Sean |
Environmental |
(401) 254 3142 |
(401) 254 3310 |
scolin@rwu.edu |
Zooplankton ecology and
functional biology of copepods; Evolutionary ecology of the copepod-toxic alga relationship. |
|
Collie,
Jeremy |
|
(401) 874-6859 |
(401) 874-6240 |
jcollie@gso.uri.edu |
Fish population dynamics; Impacts of disturbance on
benthic communities, predator-prey interactions, stock assessment and
fisheries management. |
|
Costa-Pierce, Barry |
|
(401) 874-6802 |
(401) |
bcp@gso.uri.edu |
Ecology of aquaculture and
fisheries systems; Ecological design,
engineering, trophic ecology, and modeling of mixed
aquatic/terrestrial food/fiber production ecosystems; Aquaculture as a means of
restoration of damaged aquatic ecosystems; Ecology of invasive fish
species. |
|
Coty, Deb |
Coastal
Institute |
(401) 874-6513 |
(401)
874-6869 |
dcoty@uri.edu |
Find MOU administrator, Pete
August or Candace Oviatt. |
|
Duhaime,
Roland |
Environmental |
(401) 874-5406 |
(401) 874-4561 |
maps@uri.edu |
GIS/Resources at Risk; Internet resource development. |
|
Fanning, Bill |
|
(401) 874-6590 |
(401) 874-6578 |
wfanning@gso.uri.edu |
Shipboard technical support; Design and manage
oceanographic data acquisition computer networks; Create software for the
collection, processing, display, and analysis of oceanographic data; Specify, install, maintain and
support instrumentation at sea. |
|
Garber, Jonathan |
US EPA |
(401) 782-3001 |
(401) 782-3030 |
garber.jonathan@epa.gov |
Point of contact from BART to
EPA-AED. |
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Gold, Art |
Dept. Natural Resources Sciences |
(401) 874-2903 |
(401) 874-4561 |
agold@uri.edu |
Watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry, especially
groundwater nitrate dynamics; Sources and sinks of nitrogen in coastal watersheds,
as for watershed management to minimize the risks of non-point source
pollution; Process level studies at the aquatic margin and GIS
techniques to scale up from site level to watershed scale. |
|
Gomez-Chiarri, Marta |
Dept. of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Science |
(401) 874 2917 |
(401) 874 7575 |
gomezchi@uri.edu |
Fish and shellfish pathology; Prevention and management of infectious diseases in
cultured and wild shellfish and finfish; Parasitic diseases and immune response in shellfish; Effects of pollutants on immune response in finfish. |
|
Green,
Linda |
Dept. of Natural Resources Science |
(401) 874-2905 |
(401) 874-4561 |
lgreen@uri.edu |
Water and soil chemistry; Laboratory analysis of water quality, especially
nitrate loads in ground water; Oversight, training, and coordination of volunteer
water quality monitoring programs and of water quality volunteers. |
|
Horwitz, Richard |
|
(401) 289-0198 |
(401) 289-0198 |
rhorwitz@cox.net |
Emergency response, management and
public information; Planning, coordination, writing, editing; Communications among scientists, policymakers, and
the public. |
|
James-Pirri, Mary-Jane |
|
(401) 874-6617 |
(401) 874-6887 |
mjjp@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu |
Coastal ecosystem ecology with emphasis on
monitoring protocols; Ecology of horseshoe crabs; Ecological statistics. |
|
Killingbeck,
Keith |
Dept. of |
(401) 874-2624 |
(401) 874-5974 |
keith@uri.edu |
Ecology and physiology of plant nutrient dynamics; Evolution and mechanisms of environmental influence
on resorption; Relationship between invasive species and ecological
disturbance; Biodiversity and rare plant assemblages. |
|
Kincaid,
Christopher |
|
(401) 874-6571 |
(401) 874-6811 |
kincaid@gso.uri.edu |
Coastal physical oceanography; Estuarine circulation and transport: Observational
and computational methods applied to circulation and residence time of
estuarine waters and dynamical interaction between estuary and shelf waters; Geophysical fluid dynamics applied to Earth systems; Laboratory and numerical experiments on mantle
dynamics and related thermal-chemical transport processes. |
|
King,
John |
|
(401) 874-6594 |
(401) 874-6182 |
jking@gso.uri.edu |
Geomagnetism, paleomagnetism,
environmental magnetism, sedimentology, paleoclimatic studies, trace metal geochemistry, pollution
studies, and sediment core logging. |
|
Krumholz, Jason |
|
(401) 874-6188 |
(401) 874-6613 |
jkrumholz@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu |
Conservation and ecosystem biology, Benthic assays to determine the effect of trawling
pressure. |
|
Latimer,
Jim |
US EPA |
(401) 782-3167 |
(401) 782-3030 |
latimer.jim@epa.gov |
Cycling of organic and inorganic compounds in
aquatic systems and the atmosphere; Organic geochemistry of sediments and water; Environmental trace metal chemistry; Fate and effects of anthropogenic compounds in the
marine environment. |
|
Lohmann, Rainer |
|
(401) 874-6612 |
(401) 874-6811 |
lohmann@gso.uri.edu |
Transport and fate of organic contaminants (PAHs, PCBs etc); Air/water exchange; Analysis of sediments, biota, air and water for
organic compounds in GSO laboratory. |
|
Macy,
Bill |
|
(401) 874-6174 |
(401) 874-6853 |
wkmacy@gso.uri.edu |
Bioenergetics of marine organisms, with emphasis on
age, growth and feeding of squid and fishes. |
|
Maranda, Lucie |
|
(401) 874-6216 |
(401) 874-6240 |
lmaranda@gso.uri.edu |
Phytoplankton ecology, with emphasis on dinoflagellates; Relationships between the population dynamics of a
toxin producer and shellfish contamination, including application of a
molecular approach to species detection. |
|
Maynard,
Brian |
Dept. of |
(401) 874-5372 |
(401) 874-2494 |
bmaynard@uri.edu |
Diagnosis of abiotic plant
stress; Damage to landscape plants; Remediation plantings; RI nursery or landscape industries. |
|
Murray,
David |
Center for Environmental Studies |
(401) 863-3531 |
(401) 863-2700 |
dmurray@brown.edu |
Estuarine oceanography and marine geology; Distribution and controls of dissolved oxygen; Sediment composition, including elemental and organic
compound analysis; Paleo-environmental reconstructions using benthic
foraminifera and geochemistry. |
|
Mustard,
John |
Dept. of Geological Sciences |
(401) 863-1264 |
(401) 863-3978 |
john_mustard@brown.edu |
Remote sensing of coastal waters and uplands; High spatial resolution maps of NB sea-surface temperatures,
with 60 m/pixel spatial resolution and daily time resolution; Use of remotely sensed data for analysis of optical
properties (chlorophyll, turbidity, CDOM) using Landsat,
EO-1, and AVIRIS data. |
|
Nixon,
Scott |
|
(401) 874-6803 |
(401) 874-6207 |
swn@gso.uri.edu |
Ecology of estuaries, bays, lagoons, marshes and
other coastal ecosystems; Nutrients, eutrophication,
hypoxia, fish kills, etc. Processes that determine the primary and secondary
productivity of these environments, with emphasis on nutrient enrichment and
other anthropogenic impacts; Use of comparative and historical field data, autecological rate measurements, numerical simulation
modeling, and manipulative ecosystem-level experiments. |
|
Oviatt, Candace |
|
(401) 874-6661 |
(401) 874-6613 |
coviatt@gso.uri.edu |
Estuarine ecoloy; Coastal ecosystem studies, particularly system
production and respiration as measured by oxygen and carbon, carbon and
nutrient cycling, benthic-water column interactions, and the functional role
of higher trophic levels. |
|
Paton, Peter |
|
(401) 874-2986 |
(401) 874-4561 |
ppaton@uri.edu |
Birds/Wildlife; Assess effects on avian populations. |
|
Pratt, Sheldon |
|
(401) 874-6699 |
(401) |
spratt@gso.uri.edu |
Inventory and monitoring of benthic macrofauna; Mapping benthos habitat; Benthos recovery. |
|
Prell, Warren |
Dept. of Geological Sciences |
(401) 863-3221 |
(401) 863-2058 |
warren_prell@brown.edu |
Global-scale paleoceanography
and local-scale estuarine oceanography; History of environmental change in oceans and
estuaries; Physical and water quality monitoring of watersheds;
Data quality control, analysis, and mapping of the
dissolved oxygen surveys in Impact of temperature and salinity on the flushing
of the Brayton Point thermal plume; Sediment analysis of foraminifera and composition. |
|
Quinn,
James |
|
(401) 874-6219 |
(401) 874-6811 |
jgquinn@gso.uri.edu |
Marine organic chemistry, including the organic
geochemistry of seawater and sediments, metal-organic and mineral-organic
interactions, and the biogeochemistry of organic pollutants in the marine
environment; Chemical studies of the sources, transport, and fate
of petroleum in aquatic environments. |
|
Rothstein,
Lewis |
|
(401)874-6517 |
(401) 874-6728 |
lrothstein@gso.uri.edu |
Geophysical fluid dynamics Large-scale ocean circulation, data assimilation,
coupled air-sea interactions on various scales (hurricanes to interannual to interdecadal),
and numerical modeling. |
|
Schult,
Matthew |
MERL, |
(401)876-6188 |
(401)874-6613 |
mschult@gso.uri.edu |
Benthic ecology; Water column sampling. |
|
Seibel, Brad |
Department of Biological Sciences |
(401) 874-7997 |
(401) 874-4256 |
seibel@uri.edu |
Hypoxia tolerance in animals Cephalopods (squids and octopods)
as models for metabolic and locomotory physiology. |
|
Smayda, Ted |
|
(401) 874-6171 |
(401) 874-6682 |
tsmayda@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu |
Phytoplankton ecology, with emphasis on organismal ecophysiology and
habitat modification; 38-year time series of weekly measurements of
physical, chemical and phytoplankton abundance, species composition, blooms,
production, and a ca. 20-year time series of zooplankton abundance and
species composition at a station located in lower NB near Fox Island; Ecology of harmful algal blooms; Impacts of eutrophication
and climate change on phytoplankton dynamics. |
|
Sutherland, Michael |
|
(401) 486-6039 |
|
agramante@gso.uri.edu |
Sedimentology/Fluid dynamics. |
|
Thornber,
Carol |