Faculty
Stephan I. Zeeman
Professor and Chair, Department of Marine Sciences
Marine Science Center 205
Phone: 207-602-2410
Email: szeeman@une.edu
Expertise
Oceanography, phytoplankton, primary production, remote sensing, geographic information systems, Bering Sea ecosystems.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Phytoplankton, primary production, remote sensing, GIS, satellite tracking, food web dynamics, habitat selection by marine animals (whales, basking sharks), K-12 science education
Leah Bymers
Instructor
Marine Science Center 205
Phone: 207-602-2601
Fax: 207-602-5945
Email: lbymers@une.edu
Expertise
General aquatic ecology, marine invertebrate physiology, aquaculture, science education
Markus Frederich
Associate Professor
Marine Science Center 218
Phone: 207-602-2406
Email: mfrederich@une.edu
Expertise
Temperature physiology; polar biology; energy metabolism; crustacean biology; marine invertebrates.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Temperature thresholds and adaptation in marine invertebrates, regulation of energy metabolism under stress.
David A. Guay
Assoicate Lecturer
Decary Hall 309A
Marine Science Center
Phone: 207-602-2188
Fax: 207-602-5956
Email: dguay1@une.edu
Expertise
Benthic marine ecology, community & population ecology, invertebrate zoology, oceanography, evolutionary biology, science education
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Marine community ecology, with a focus on benthic and intertidal communities; Population genetic structure of marine organisms; Coastal and marine ecosystems; Developing effective marine science curricula (K-12); Ecology and restoration of tallgrass prairies.
Kathryn A. Ono
Associate Professor
Marine Science Center 206
Phone: 207-602-2814
Email: kono@une.edu
Expertise
Behavioral ecology and animal behavior, marine mammal behavior and biology, marine mammal policy, evolution.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Behavioral ecology of pinnipeds (seals and sea lions); diving behavior and life history studies in seals; breeding behavior of pinnipeds; reproductive biology of pinnipeds.
James Sulikowski
Associate Professor
Marine Science Center 220
Phone: 207-602-2730
Email: jsulikowski@une.edu
Expertise
Life history and population dynamics of sharks, skates, and rays; composition and spatial/temporal distribution of fish communities; physiological responses to stress and how this influences by-catch mortality; environmental adaptations in fish; conservation of fish communities; and trophic interactions between fish species.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
My research focuses on the biology and physiology of fish. This research includes aspects of fisheries biology such as reproduction, maturity and age and growth in elasmobranchs (sharks, skates, and stingrays). Recent interests have also included the physiological responses to stress and how this influences by-catch mortality and aquaculture practices in teleosts. The composition, movements, and spatial/temporal distribution of fishes and fish communities within the Saco Bay Estuary system is also of great interest to me.
Charles Tilburg
Interim Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Associate Professor, Department of Marine Sciences
Marine Science Center 219
Decary Hall 407
Phone: 207-602-2130
Email: ctilburg@une.edu
Expertise
Physical oceanography, numerical modeling, coastal oceanography, larval transport, river plume dynamics
Research Interests/ Scholarship
The circulation of estuaries and the coastal ocean. I am particularly interested in climate change and the physical factors that govern the distribution of river plumes, the transport of crab, fish, and mussel larvae, and across-shelf transport on the continental shelf. My work involves a combination of field observations, remote-sensing techniques, and numerical modeling.
Philip O. Yund
Director - Marine Science Center, Director - Center for Land-Sea Interactions
Marine Science Center 207
Phone: 207-602-2440
Fax: 207-602-5945
Email: pyund@une.edu
Expertise
Marine Ecology; Fertilization Ecology; Land-Sea Interactions; Oceans & Human Health
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Evolutionary ecology of sessile and sedentary marine invertebrates; fertilization ecology; integrative biology; ecology of marine mammal, fish, and invertebrate pathogens; fisheries ecology.
Daryl J. Boness
Research Associate Faculty, Chairman of U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, Editor-in-Chief of Marine Mammal Science
Off-Campus
Marine Science Center
Phone: 207-597-2333
Fax: 207-597-2333
Email: mmsci@megalink.net
Expertise
Marine mammal behavior, ecology and conservation; behavioral ecology; mammalian reproductive strategies
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Mating systems and parental care strategies of marine mammals and birds;
Marine mammal conservation and policy
William B. Driggers
NOAA/NMFS Research Fisheries Biologist
Off-Campus
Phone: 228-762-4591
Email: william.driggers@noaa.gov
Expertise
Behavioral ecology, biogeography, fisheries biology, life history, population dynamics, reproduction and taxonomy of sharks in the western North Atlantic Ocean.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
My research focuses on various aspects of the biology of coastal, pelagic and deepwater sharks in the northern Gulf of Mexico and off the east coast of the United States. Recent areas of focus include examining forces driving the distribution of various species, feeding chronology of carcharhinids and intraspecific variability in reproductive cycles.
Steven H. Jury
Senior Research Scientist
Off-Campus
Phone: 207 773-2500
Fax: 207 773-2522
Email: shjury@gmail.com
Expertise
comparative animal physiology and behavior, invertebrate biology,fisheries and aquaculture technology development
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Crustacean sensory physiology and behavior, ecology of aquatic, estuarine and marine invertebrates, role of physiology and behavior in aquaculture
John Mandelman
Associate Research Faculty
Off-Campus
Phone: 617-226-2168
Email: jmandelman@neaq.org
Expertise
Conservation physiology and the physiological ecology of marine fishes; the physiological alterations and resultant mortality due to anthropogenic stressors, specifically fishing capture, in sharks, rays and skates; bycatch mitigation in sharks, rays and skates; blood biochemical profiling of marine fishes; movement and distribution of marine fishes around artificial structures (i.e. fish aggregation devices).
Research Interests/ Scholarship
In general, my research centers on the conservation physiology of marine fishes, predominantly elasmobranchs (the sharks, rays and skates). More specifically, I am interested in the lethal and sublethal blood chemical responses to anthropogenic stressors - such as fishing capture and handling, and acoustic stress - in marine fishes. In turn, this work also involves the interplay with fisheries management to help derive estimates of mortality stemming from select stressors, and best practices to attenuate detrimental impacts of such, in different species. Other interests include the evaluation of bycatch mitigation strategies in sharks, rays and skates, and assessments of distribution and habituation of marine fishes around offshore energy installations.
Frederick J. Miller
Laboratory Coordinator, Dept. of Marine Sciences
Marine Science Center 224
Phone: 207-602-2729
Fax: 207-602-5945
Email: fmiller1@une.edu
Expertise
Study of mitosis using marine invertebrate models and optical microscopy techniques.
Instructor: Analytical & Quantitative Light Microscopy in the Materials & Biomedical Sciences (AQLM course), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 1990-2000.
Senior Research Associate, Cell Biology Department, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology - University of Massachusetts Medical School, 1982-2001.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
My research has involved using physical micromanipulations, microinjection, microsurgery, and chemical or drug treatments of the rapidly dividing cells of echinoderm embryos to broaden the base of knowledge of the role of centrioles and centrosomes in mitosis and meiosis. It is by understanding how the normal, dividing cell functions and unerringly replicates its own components from one to two daughter cells, that we may better understand abnormal and aberrant cancer cell processes.
