Research Experience

1999 - present Complex systems in ocean biology and biogeochemistry

1995 - 1997 Simulating the insurance industry as a complex system (Insurance World)

1994 - present  Climate, Hurricanes and Environmental Risk

1993 - present  Remote Sensing and Ocean Biogeochemistry of the Sargasso Sea.

1990 - present  Optical characterization of the ocean at the U.S.JGOFS, Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series.

1989 - present  Temporal variability in the biogeochemistry of the Sargasso Sea

1986 - present  Food-web dynamics and the quantity and composition of sinking exports from oceanic ecosystems

1984 - present  Nitrogen fixation in the oligotrophic Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

1983 - 1996  The Acantharia-algal symbiosis in upper ocean carbon and nitrogen cycles

1989 - 1996  Scientific oversight and coordination of the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Program

1989 - 1995  Dynamics of dimethylsulfide in the Sargasso Sea.

1987 - 1988  The role of Acantharia in the fluxes of strontium and associated trace elements.

1984 - 1988  Vertex: Phytoplankton Origins and Biological Attrition of the Detrital Rain. Postdoctoral Researcher (1988) or Research Assistant for Dr. Mary Silver, Univ. Cal. Santa Cruz.

1984 - 1985  Satellite image redigitization and processing. Research Assistant with Dr. Kenneth Briggs, Univ. Cal. Santa Cruz.

1983  Demography and reproductive strategies of desert annual plants. Research Assistant with Dr. Larry Venable, University of Arizona.

1981 - 1983  The evolution of algal-invertebrate symbiosis and seasonality of the Prochloron-Didemnum Tunicate symbiosis. Masters Research with Dr. Robert Hoshaw, University of Arizona.

1981 - 1983  The affects of herbicides on mesquite grassland ecology. Research Assistant with Dr. Norman Smith, University of Arizona.

1978 - 1979  Data reduction, graphic design and layout of the El Nino Watch Atlas. Assistant to Dr. William Patzert, Scripps Institute of Oceanography

1983 - present  Participant in 26 oceanographic cruises and chief scientist on 10 of those cruises.

1989 - 1996  Participant and Chief Scientist on frequent BBSR and JGOFS Time-series cruises