Faculty
Graduate Faculty
David W. Townsend, Ph.D. (Maine, 1981), Professor and Director, School of Marine Sciences. Area:
Biological Oceanography of Shelf Seas. (Oceanography, Marine Biology)
James Acheson, Ph.D. (Rochester, 1970), Professor. Area: Cultural Anthropology. (Marine Policy)
Bruce Barber, Ph.D. (South Florida, 1984), Professor. Area: Bivalve Physiology and Pathology.
(Aquaculture, Marine Biology)
Emmanuel Boss, Ph.D. (Washington, 1996), Assistant Professor. Area: Particle Dynamics, Optical
Oceanography. (Oceanography)
Susan Brawley, Ph.D. (California, 1978), Professor. Area: Algal Physiology, Development and
Ecology. (Marine Biology, Oceanography)
Fei Chai, Ph.D. (Duke University, 1995), Associate Professor. Area: Ecosystem Modeling;
Tropical Oceanography. (Oceanography)
Yong Chen, Ph.D. (Toronto, 1995), Assistant Professor. Area: Fisheries Population Dynamics
and fisheries stock assessment and management. (Marine Biology, Marine Policy)
Laurie Connell, Ph.D. (North Carolina, 1988), Research Assistant Professor. Area: Molecular
Ecology. (Marine Biology)
Daniel Distel, Ph.D. (Scripps, 1987), Associate Professor. Area: Marine Microbiology and Molecular
Biology. (Marine Biology)
Kevin Eckelbarger, Ph.D. (Northeastern, 1974), Professor. Area: Invertebrate Biology. Director,
Darling Marine Center. (Marine Biology)
Ione Hunt von Herbing, Ph.D. (Dalhousie, 1994), Assistant Professor. Area: Biological/Physical Interactions;
Ichthyoplankton Transport. (Marine Biology, Aquaculture, Oceanography)
Peter A. Jumars, Ph.D. (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1974), Professor. Area: Benthic
Biological Oceanography, Organism-Environment Interactions at the Level of Individuals,
Deposit Feeding. (Oceanography, Marine Biology)
Lee Karp-Boss, Ph.D. (Washington, 1998), Research Assistant Professor. Area: Biological Oceanography.
(Oceanography)
Joseph Kelley, Ph.D. (Lehigh, 1980), Professor. Area: Coastal Geology, Coastal Zone Management.
(Oceanography, Marine Policy)
Gary M. King, Ph.D. (Georgia, 1978), Professor. Area: Microbiology, Microbial Biogeochemistry.
(Oceanography, Marine Biology)
Linda J. Kling, Ph.D. (Maryland, 1980), Associate Professor. Area: Fish Aquaculture, Fish Nutrition
and Feeding. (Aquaculture)
Irv Kornfield, Ph.D. (Stony Brook, 1974), Professor. Area: Population Biology, Ecology and
Systematics. (Marine Biology, Oceanography, Aquaculture)
Sara Lindsay, Ph.D. (South Carolina, 1994), Assistant Research Professor. Area: Sensory Biology
and Ecology of Marine Invertebrates, Benthic Ecology. (Marine Biology, Ocean-ography)
Lawrence M. Mayer, Ph.D. (Dartmouth, 1976), Professor. Area: Marine Biogeochemistry. (Oceanography)
James D. McCleave, Ph.D. (Montana State, 1967), Professor. Area: Migratory and Transport Mechanisms
of Fishes, Fisheries Oceanography, Eel Biology. Associate Director, School of
Marine Sciences. (Oceanography, Marine Biology)
Michael Opitz, D.V.M. (Berlin, 1964), Professor. Area: Diseases, Health Management. (Aquaculture,
Marine Biology)
Mary Jane Perry, Ph.D. (Scripps Institution of Oceanography/California, San Diego, 1974), Professor.
Area: Phytoplankton Physiology, Primary Productivity, Bio-optics. (Ocean-ography,
Marine Biology)
Neal R. Pettigrew, Ph.D. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/M.I.T., 1981), Associate Professor.
Area: Near-shore, Estuarine and Continental Shelf Circulation. (Ocean-ography)
Paul Rawson, Ph.D. (South Carolina, 1996), Assistant Professor. Area: Quantitative Genetics,
Evolutionary Biology. (Marine Biology, Aquaculture)
Warren Riess, Ph.D. (New Hampshire, 1987), Associate Research Professor. Area: History; Underwater
Archeology. (Marine Policy)
Malcolm Shick, Ph.D. (Texas, 1974), Professor. Area: Marine Invertebrate Physiology. (Marine
Biology)
Bruce Sidell, Ph.D. (Illinois, 1975), Professor. Area: Biochemistry and Physiology of Fishes.
(Marine Biology, Aquaculture)
Robert S. Steneck, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, 1982), Professor. Area: Benthic Marine Ecology, Lobsters,
and Plant-Herbivore Interactions. (Oceanography, Marine Policy, and Marine Biology)
Andrew Thomas, Ph.D. (British Columbia, 1988), Associate Professor. Area: Plankton Biology,
Biological/Physical Interactions, Satellite Oceanography. (Oceanography, Marine
Biology)
Robert L. Vadas, Ph.D. (Washington, 1968), Professor. Area: Marine Ecology, Algal Ecology. (Marine
Biology, Aquaculture)
Rebecca Van Beneden, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, 1983), Professor and Associate Director School of Marine
Sciences. Area: Marine Molecular Biology and Environmental Toxicology. (Marine
Biology)
Les Watling, Ph.D. (Delaware, 1974), Professor. Area: Benthic Ecology. (Oceanography, Marine
Biology, Aquaculture)
Mark Wells, Ph.D. (Maine, 1989), Associate Professor. Area: Metal-Plankton Interactions.
(Oceanography)
James Wilson, Ph.D. (Wisconsin, 1971), Professor. Area: Economics and Fisheries Management.
(Marine Policy, Aquaculture)
Huijie Xue, Ph.D. (Princeton University, 1991), Associate Professor. Area: Numerical Model-ing
of Coastal and Oceanic Circulation. (Oceanography)
Phil Yund, Ph.D. (Yale, 1987), Research Associate Professor. Area: Evolutionary Ecology
and Fertilization Biology. (Marine Biology)
Cooperating Faculty
Daniel F. Belknap, Ph.D. (Delaware, 1979), Professor. Area: Marine Geology, Sedimentology. Chair,
Department of Earth Sciences. (Oceanography)
Katherine Boettcher, Ph.D. (Southern California, 1994), Assistant Professor. Area: Marine and Invertebrate
Microbiology. (Marine Biology)
William Ellis, Ph.D. (Rhode Island, 1992), Assistant Professor. Area: Marine and Atmospheric
Chemistry. (Oceanography)
James Gilbert, Ph.D. (Idaho, 1974), Professor. Area: Large Mammal Population Dynamics, Assessment
and Modeling. (Marine Biology)
Terry Haines, Ph.D. (Michigan State, 1971), Professor. Area: Environmental Contaminants and
Fishes. (Marine Biology)
Carol Kim, Ph.D. (Cornell, 1992), Assistant Professor. Area: Zebrafish as a Model for
Disease and Immune Function. (Marine Biology)
Michael Kinnison, Ph.D. (University of Washington, 1999), Assistant Professor. Area: Ecology
and Environmental (Marine Biology)
Laurie Osher, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley, 1997), Assistant Professor. Area:
Biogeochemistry (Marine Biology)
Mary Rumpho, Ph.D. (Washington State, 1982), Professor. Area: Mollusc/Algal Chloroplast
Symbioses. (Marine Biology)
John Singer, Ph.D. (Georgia, 1983), Associate Professor. Area: Marine Microbiology. Chair,
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology. (Aquaculture,
Marine Biology)
Ralph Townsend, Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison, 1983), Professor. Area: Fisheries Management and
Fisheries Economics. (Marine Policy)
Seth Tyler, Ph.D. (North Carolina, 1975), Professor. Area: Invertebrate Biology. (Marine
Biology)
Gregory Zelinski, Ph.D. (Massachusetts, 1987), Research Associate Professor. Area: Climatology/Paleoclimatology
Meteorology. (Oceanography)
Associate Faculty
Lawrence Jacobson, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, 1986), Associate Professor. Fisheries Population
Dynamics, Assessment Modeling and Management. National Marine Fisheries Service,
Woods, Hole, Massachusetts
Richard Langton, Ph.D. (University of Wales, 1975), Associate Professor. Fish Relationships
and Fishing Effects on Habitat, Stock Enhancement. Buccoo Reef Trust
Brian Beal, Ph.D. (University of Maine, 1994), Assistant Professor. Benthic Ecology, Marine
Biology. University of Maine at Machias