Professional Achievements

John A. Adam, University Professor of mathematics, published his book, "Mathematics in Nature: Modeling Patterns in the Natural World" (Princeton University Press, 2003). He also presented "Patterns, Poetry and Principles in Nature: Some Observations" to faculty and student at the Math and Science Colloquium of St. Mary's College in Maryland. Also, "Can 'Tunneling' Occur Between Cancer-Free and Cancerous States? Some Pre-Modeling Speculation" at the American Mathematical Society Special Session on Mathematical Modeling in Physiology and Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

John A. Adam published a book chapter, "Mathematical Models of Tumor Growth: From Empirical Description to Biological Mechanism," in vol. 537 of Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, "Mathematical Modeling in Nutrition and the Health Sciences" (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003).

Elizabeth C. Austin-Minor, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, presented "What is the 'Dead' POM? A Preliminary Study Using Fluorescent Stains, Flow Cytometry and Mass Spectrometry" at the Symposium on New Approaches in Marine Organic Biogeochemistry: A Tribute to the Life and Sciences of John I. Hedges, at Friday Harbor, Washington. Co-author is graduate student Prashanth S. Nallathamby.

Thomas F. Cash, professor of psychology, was appointed as the founding editor in chief of the new peer-reviewed scientific journal, Body Image: An International Journal of Research, to be published quarterly by Elsevier starting in 2004. He also was awarded Fellow status in the American Psychological Society in spring 2003.

Greg Cutter, professor of oceanography, published "Selenium in San Francisco Bay Zooplankton: Possible Effects of Hydrodynamics and Food Web Interactions" in vol. 26 of Estuaries. Co-authors are Martina Doblin, research assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences; Stephen Bollens, San Francisco State University; and Samuel Luoma, U. S. Geological Survey.

John R. Donat, associate professor of chemistry and biochemisty, presented "Atmospheric Trace Metal Deposition and Release and Ocean Primary Production" at the 2003 Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Oceanography at the Tilton School in Tilton, N.H.

Harold G. Marshall, professor emeritus of biological sciences, presented "Long-term Monitoring Relationships Between Phytoplankton Populations and Water Quality Parameters in Three Estuarine Rivers of Chesapeake Bay, Virginia," at the fifth International Symposium on the Use of Algae for Monitoring Rivers, in Cracow, Poland. Co-author is Lubomira Burchardt, chair of hydrobiology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. They also presented "Comparative Relationships Associated with the Phytoplankton in the Neuston Sub-surface Layer and Water Column from a Lake and Pond in Virginia" at the 19th Hydrobiology Congress in Warsaw, Poland. Also at the congress, Marshall presented, "The Toxic Dinoflagellate Dinophysics acuminata: Unique Bloom Concentrations in Virginia Sub-estuaries of Chesapeake Bay." Co-authors are graduate assistants Todd Egerton, Todd Stem, Jeremy Hicks and Mikolaj Kokocinski.

Margaret Mulholland, assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, presented "Competition for Organic Resources: Bacteria Versus Aureococus anophagefferens" at the Estuarine Research Federation annual meeting in Seattle. Co-authors are George Boneillo, doctoral student, OEAS; Peter Bernhardt, laboratory specialist, OEAS; Elizabeth Minor, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry; and Jean-Paul Simjouw, doctoral student, OEAS.

Margaret Mulholland published "Peptide Hydrolysis, Amino Acid Oxidation and N Uptake Along a Nutrient and Salinity Gradient in the Pocomoke River, Maryland" in Marine Ecology Progress, Series 258. Co-authors are Patricia Glibert of the University of Maryland and Cindy Lee of Stony Brook University.

Andrea Rocha, master's student of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, presented "Uptake of Thymidine and Leucine Phytoplankton: Implications for Bacterial Productivity Estimates" at the Estuarine Research Federation annual meeting in Seattle. Co-authors are Margaret Mulholland; Peter Bernhardt; A. Michelle Watson, doctoral student, OEAS; George Boneillo; and Sue Reynolds, master's student, OEAS.

A. Michelle Watson, doctoral student of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, presented "The Relative Importance of Phototrophy, Osmotrophy and Phagotrophy to Dinoflagellate Nutrition Over Seasonal Time Scales" at the Estuarine Research Federation annual meeting in Seattle. Co-authors are Margaret Mulholland, Peter Bernhardt, Andrea Rocha, Sue Reynolds, and George Boneillo.

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