ROSTER OF SUPPORT SCIENTISTS FOR BART
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Name |
Address |
Office Phone |
FAX |
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Expertise |
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August,
Peter |
Coastal Institute |
(401) 874-6513 |
(401) 874-6869 |
pete@edc.uri.edu |
GIS, Local logistics |
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Belkin, Igor |
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(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 |
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Bergondo,
Deanna |
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(401) 874-6573 |
(401) 874-6811 |
dbergondo@gso.uri.edu |
Coastal oceanography
sampling (moored buoy deployments, CTD, DO, pH and chlorophyll
measurements, underway and moored ADCP deployments, water sampling) in
Estuarine circulation & transport, hypoxia, physical processes controlling stratification-destratification events; Numerical modeling of transport pathways and flushing rates of NB |
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Beutel, David |
Rhode Island Sea Grant
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(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. |
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Brown,
Wendell |
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(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 |
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Buckley,
Larry |
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(401) 874-6671 |
(401) 782-3201 |
lbuckley@gso.uri.edu |
Recruitment fisheries oceanography; Marine finfish aquaculture; Marine biochemistry, including molecular responses of marine organisms to environmental change; Development of biochemical and molecular methods to model and estimate growth and survival in marine organisms |
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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 |
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Codiga, Dan |
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(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 |
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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 |
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Collie,
Jeremy |
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(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 |
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Colt,
Ames |
RI Sea Grant College
Program |
(401) 874-6805 |
(401) 789-8340 |
acolt@gso.uri.edu |
Crisis response management, planning, and policy; Response coordination, communications, implementation analysis and evaluation, facilitation, and impact assessment |
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Costa-Pierce,
Barry |
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(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 |
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Duhaime, Roland |
Environmental |
(401) 874-5406 |
(401) 874-4561 |
maps@uri.edu |
GIS/Resources at Risk; Internet resource development |
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Fanning, Bill |
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(401) 874-6590 |
(401) 874-6578 |
wfanning@gsosun1.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 |
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Ford,
Kathryn |
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(401) 874-6157 |
(401) |
khford@gso.uri.edu |
Habitat mapping using sidescan sonar; Underwater video and sediment
sampling Organic and trace metal contamination in marine
sediments; Sediment coring; Paleoenvironmental studies; Bathymetric mapping (single
beam); Field work, boat operation,
(also have boats) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Hargraves, Paul |
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(401) 874-6241 |
(401) 874-6240 |
pharg@gso.uri.edu |
Phytoplankton systematics, ultrastructure, biodiversity and natural history; Harmful algal blooms (HABs), toxic diatoms and dinoflagellates |
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Horwitz,
Richard |
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(401) 289-0198 |
(401) 289-0198 |
rhorwitz@cox.net |
Communication among scientists, policymakers, and the public. Planning, coordination, writing |
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James-Pirri,
Mary-Jane |
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(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 |
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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. |
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Kincaid,
Christopher |
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(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 |
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King,
John |
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(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 |
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Krumholz, Jason |
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(401) 874-6188 |
(401) 874-6613 |
jkrumholz@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu |
Conservation and ecosystem biology, Benthic assays to determine the effect of trawling pressure |
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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 |
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Lohmann, Rainer |
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(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 |
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Macy,
Bill |
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(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 |
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Maranda, Lucie |
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(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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Nixon,
Scott |
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(401) 874-6803 |
(401) 874-6207 |
swn@gso.uri.edu |
Ecology of estuaries, bays, lagoons, marshes and other coastal ecosystems; 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 |
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Oviatt, Candace |
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(401) 874-6661 |
(401) 874-6613 |
coviatt@gso.uri.edu |
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 |
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Paton, Peter |
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(401) 874-2986 |
(401) 874-4561 |
ppaton@uri.edu |
Birds/Wildlife; Assess effects on avian populations |
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Pratt,
Sheldon |
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(401) 874-6699 |
(401) |
spratt@gso.uri.edu |
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