Patrick Center Scientists
Dr. Jeffrey T. F. Ashley
Biogeochemistry
(University of Maryland, 1998)
(215) 299-1076
Sources, transport, and fate of bioaccumulative, persistent organic contaminants in natural waters; modeling the bioaccumulation of pollutants in aquatic food webs; the role of eutrophication in determining organic contaminant exposure to organisms; environmental analytical chemistry, assessment of contaminated fisheries.
Dr. Donald F. Charles
Phycology
(Indiana University, 1982)
(215) 299-1090
Phycology Section Website
CV (pdf)
Diatoms as water quality indicators; paleolimnological approaches for inferring change in biology and chemistry of lakes; lake management; assessment of perturbations in aquatic ecosystems due to municipal and industrial effluents, land-use change, acid deposition, eutrophication and climate change.
Dr. Richard J. Horwitz
Fisheries
(University of Chicago, 1976)
(215) 299-1092
CV (pdf)
Reproductive ecology, life history and distribution of freshwater fishes; effects of land use, habitat structure and hydrology on population dynamics and species composition in aquatic systems; ecological modeling and biometry; anthropogenic contaminants in fishes.
Dr. James N. McNair
Ecosystem Ecology
(University of Pennsylvania, 1979)
(215) 299-1109
Personal Research Page
Density-dependent dynamics of physiologically-structured population models; population dynamics of predator-prey and host-parasite interactions; reaction-diffusion models of denitrification in aquatic sediments; advection-diffusion models of aquatic sediment profiles; stochastic models of particle transport and animal behavior; theories of foraging behavior and territorial behavior.
Dr. Eduardo A. Morales
Phycology
(University of Connecticut, 2000)
CV (pdf)
Diatom taxonomy and systematics. Algal evolutionary biology. Phenotypic plasticity in the algae and its effect on algal ecology and taxonomy.
Dr. David J. Velinsky
Environmental Biogeochemistry
(Old Dominion University, 1987)
(215) 299-1147
Personal Research Page
Geochemical cycling of organic and inorganic constituents of sediments and waters; Sedimentary diagenesis of major and minor elements; Isotope biogeochemistry of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur in marine and freshwater systems.
Research Associates
Dr. Dina M. Fonseca
Associate Professor
Center for Vector Biology
Rutgers University – Entomology
180 Jones Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(732) 932-3146
CV (pdf)
Dr. Raymond W. Bouchard
Macroinvertebrates
(University of Tennessee, 1972)
(215) 299-1114
CV (pdf)
Systematics, zoogeography, evolution, ecology and functional morphology of Holarctic crayfishes; ecology of neotropical phytotelmata; systematics and zoogeography of neotropical freshwater decapod crustaceans.