Alicia Williams is a Lecturer in the Marine Sciences Department at the University of New England. She recieved her Bachelors of Science in Biology from Roger Williams University in 2008 and went on to complete her Ph.D. in Oceanography at Texas A&M University in 2015. During that time she conducted research projects across a wide range of marine systems including coastal estuaries, coral reefs, open ocean circulation features and deep sea subsurface sediments. Her primary research focus was understanding how microbial community structure based... Read More
Expertise
Biological Oceanography
Marine Biology
Marine Microbial Ecology
Administration
Marian Reagan
B.S. Education
Financial Coordinator, School of Marine Programs
Expertise
Scientific Research Methodology
Small Boat Operations
Large Research Vessel Science Operations
Dive Operations
Project management
research support
Full-time Faculty
Charles Tilburg
Ph.D.
Chair, Marine Sciences
Director, Arthur P. Girard Marine Science Center
Professor, Marine Sciences
Dr. Charles Tilburg is the Chair of the Department of Marine Sciences, Director of the Arthur P. Girard Marine Science Center, and a Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of New England. He received a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from the University of Texas and a PhD in Oceanography from Florida State University. He has twenty years of research and teaching experience in physical oceanography, numerical modeling, and bio-physical coupling of... Read More
Expertise
Physical oceanography
numerical modeling
coastal oceanography
larval transport
river plume dynamics
Barry Costa-Pierce
Ph.D.
Executive Director, UNE NORTH: The Institute for North Atlantic Studies
Special Assistant to President for North Atlantic Programs
Henry L. & Grace Doherty Professor of Marine Sciences
2018 Knut & Alice Wallenberg Professor, SWEMARC, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Editor-in-Chief, Aquaculture (Elsevier Science, The Netherlands)
Fellow, Amercian Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Costa-Pierce has a 40-year career in the marine and freshwater sciences. His overall research interest is in "Ocean Food Systems": how seafood systems throughout the world interact with marine/freshwater ecosystems, fisheries, aquaculture, and people. He has worked internationally at research organizations in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and in the US at both state and private universities from Hawai'i to Maine. Professor Costa-Pierce is one of the pioneers of the field of "Ecological Aquaculture". He... Read More
Expertise
Ecological aquaculture
marine ecology
social-ecological systems
Markus Frederich
Ph.D.
Professor of Marine Sciences
Dr. Frederich is a Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of New England. He received his masters degree in biology from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, where he investigated anatomical abnormalities in ants that got exposed to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Bremen, Germany for his work at the Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany. Here he investigated stress physiology mechanisms in Antarctic crustaceans. For... Read More
Expertise
Temperature physiology
polar biology
energy metabolism
crustacean biology
marine invertebrates
James Sulikowski
BA, MS, PhD
Professor of Marine Science
Dr. James Sulikowski is a marine biologist and professor at the University of New England. He has 25 years of experience working with cartilaginous and bony fish. He has more than 74 peer-reviewed publications and his research has garnered more than $11 million in external grant funding. James has appeared on numerous local and national television shows including NBC’s “Today Show,” “Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin” and the BBC series “Rise of Animals.” His research was featured on the Discovery Channel's Shark Week in both... Read More
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
Stephan I. Zeeman
Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Marine Sciences
Expertise
oceanography
phytoplankton
primary production
remote sensing
geographic information systems
Bering Sea ecosystems.
Expertise
Behavioral ecology and animal behavior
marine mammal behavior and biology
marine mammal policy
evolution.
My research is grounded in marine ecology and integrates and interdisciplinary approach. Research disciplines include aquaculture, fisheries and coastal management. Previous projects have been based in freshwater, estuarine and marine habitats including temperate lakes, Atlantic rocky shorelines, temperate barrier-beach lagoons, tropical coral reefs and Pacific glacial fjords. I enjoy working on projects that look at biotic and abiotic dynamics and interactions as they apply to conservation and/or social development issues. My current research focuses on sustainable ecological aquaculture and food web dynamics in... Read More
Expertise
Ecological Approaches to Acquaculture
Fish Ecology & Fisheries
Marine Food Web Dynamics
Susan E. Farady
J.D.
Assistant Professor of Marine Affairs
Susan Farady is an Assistant Professor of Marine Affairs at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. She teaches courses in interdisciplinary marine law and policy, oversees curriculum offerings, and researches ocean governance and marine spatial planning issues.
Previously, she was the Director of the Marine Affairs Institute and the Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program, and adjunct faculty at the Roger Williams University School of Law. In that capacity, she was responsible for the education, outreach and research... Read More
Expertise
General aquatic ecology
marine invertebrate physiology
aquaculture
science education
David A. Guay
M.S.
Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Senior Lecturer, Department of Marine Sciences
Expertise
Benthic marine ecology
community & population ecology
invertebrate zoology
oceanography
evolutionary biology
science education
Jeri L. Fox
Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Aquaculture and Aquarium Sciences Program Coordinator
Dr. Fox is a graduate of the University of Tennessee where she received a Bachelor's degree in Organismal Biology. From there she went to the University of Houston where she earned her Master's of Science for her work on the reproduction of Penaeid shrimp. From Houston she went to Seattle, Washington where she entered the Doctoral program at the University of Washington in the College of Ocean and Fisheries Science while at the same time working in the Medical Center in... Read More
Expertise
aquaculture
Aquarium Science
Marine and Freshwater Ornamental Husbandry
Aquaponics
Coral Biology
Candidate Species for Aquaculture
John Kraeuter
Ph.D.
Joseph G. Kunkel
Ph.D.
Research Professor
Joe grew up on a tidal salt marsh in Long Island, New York. He spent his early years collecting and rearing insects as a hobby. He went to college majoring in Zoology and published his first paper based on his undergraduate research on cockroach development. He chose a graduate school where he could continue his interest in insect development and on earning his Ph.D., did a post doctoral in Biometry, and another in Biochemistry. Joe's major interest is in using experimental design to explore... Read More
Expertise
Biometry
protein chemistry and non-invasive ion flux measurements.
Zach Miller-Hope
M.S.
Assistant Director for Education | UNE NORTH
Assistant Lecturer | Department of Biology and Marine Science
I am interested in aquaculture for food, aquaculture for conservation, and the ever-evolving interplay between wild-caught fisheries and aquaculture as they contribute to global food systems. I see aquaculture as a solution for protecting our wild fish stocks as well as a sustainable way to feed the growing human population. We culture a wide range of species at UNE and I’m actively involved in the training of undergraduate students in the husbandry of aquatic organisms in marine ornamentals, corals, shellfish... Read More
Expertise
aquaculture
Recirculating Aquaculture Systems
water quality
Food Systems
Marine Biology
sustainability
Professional Staff
Teri Kruszenski
A.A.S.
Administrative Assistant
Provides administrative support for the Academic Department of Marine Sciences. Read More
Adam St. Gelais
M.S.
Assistant Director for Science | UNE NORTH
Assistant Research Scientist | School of Marine Programs
(207) 221-4148
I am interested in the intersection of ocean farming and marine ecology, framed by a changing climate, and the resulting ecological and social impacts of managing both for sustainability. I work closely with ocean farmers, especially those focused on growing low-trophic level “extractive species” to assess the ecosystem services (and where present the trade-offs) of farming in the marine environment and conversely, how the marine environment impacts the quality and nutrition of ocean-farm crops. Much of this work is focused on... Read More
Expertise
marine resource management
fisheries management
sustainable marine aquaculture
watershed science
Histology
Benthic marine ecology
Ocean Food Systems