Masthead

Editor-in-Chief

Paul F. Kemp (2002-present)
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii

Managing Editor

Susana Feng (2002-present)

Founding Editorial Board

Alan P. Covich, Professor
Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology
Colorado State University

John Hobbie, Senior Scientist and Co-Director
The Ecosystems Center
Marine Biological Laboratory

Van Holliday, Adjunct Professor of Fisheries Oceanography
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth

William M. Lewis, Jr., Professor and Director
Center for Limnology
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
University of Colorado at Boulder

Charles S. Yentsch, Research Scientist
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Robert G. Wetzel, Professor (deceased)
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
School of Public Health
The University of North Carolina

Associate Editors

Mark Benfield, Associate Professor
Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences
Louisiana State University
Optical and acoustical spatial mapping of zooplankton on fine- to mesoscales; automated identification of zooplankton; acoustic localization of fish and invertebrates; use of ROVs to study mesopelagic and bathypelagic plankton and nekton.

Claudia Benitez-Nelson, Associate Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
University of South Carolina
Biogeochemistry; carbon and nutrient sources, speciation and cycling; particle formation, composition, and export; the application and development of stable and radiogenic isotopic tracers; global climate change in past and present day environments.

Janet W. Campbell, Research Professor
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
University of New Hampshire
Estimation of phytoplankton pigments and oceanic primary production from satellite remote sensing measurements; statistical analysis of the spatial and temporal variability in phytoplankton biomass and optical variability of the ocean surface waters; effects of scale on model parameterizations and satellite algorithms.

Karen L. Casciotti, Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Marine nitrogen cycle; nitrate and nitrite stable isotope dynamics; nitrogen cycling in oxygen minimum zones; genetics and physiology of nitrifying and denitrifying microbes; mechanisms of biological trace gas production.

John Crimaldi, Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Colorado
Transport and mixing of passive and reactive scalars; turbulent boundary layer structure; benthic processes; vortex dynamics; physical-biological interactions; laser and acoustic techniques for velocity and scalar concentration measurements.

Greg Cutter, Professor
Department of Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
Old Dominion University
Trace element speciation and distributions in natural waters and sediments; air-sea transport and exchange of gases and trace elements; paleoceanographic tracers; analytical methods for aquatic chemistry; computer modeling of geochemical processes.

Michael DeGrandpre, Professor
Department of Chemistry
The University of Montana
Development and application of autonomous chemical sensors for aquatic research; carbon cycling in marine and freshwater ecosystems; surface mixed-layer dissolved gas and inorganic carbon dynamics; air-water gas exchange.

Gerhard J. Herndl, Professor
Head of Department of Biological Oceanography
Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Microbial ecology; dissolved organic matter in marine and freshwater systems; phylogenetic diversity and link between phylogeny and function of prokaryotes; role of ultraviolet radiation on the transformation of dissolved organic matter by prokaryotes.

Jules S. Jaffe, Research Oceanographer
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
Development of in-situ optical and acoustical sensors; image and signal processing science; biomedical engineering; public outreach.

Todd Kana, Research Associate Professor
Horn Point Laboratory
University of Maryland
Regulation of microalgal photosynthesis; photosynthetic oxygen cycling using ¹⁸O techniques; membrane inlet mass spectrometry for dissolved gas analysis; marine denitrification measurements using the N₂/Ar technique; Application of variable fluorescence techniques in photosynthesis research.

Maeve Lohan, Lecturer
School of Earth, Ocean & Environmental Sciences
University of Plymouth
Trace element speciation and biogeochemistry in natural waters; phytoplankton trace element requirements and uptake; riverine and sediment transport of trace elements; analytical methods for aquatic chemistry; factors affecting trace metal cycling and productivity in natural waters.

Elizabeth Minor, Associate Professor
Large Lakes Observatory and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Minnesota
The relationships between the chemical composition of aquatic organic matter and external variables such as water depth, temperature, salinity, and nutrient concentrations; links between molecular-level characteristics (molecular weight, functional group, inorganic or organic matrix) and reactivity in riverine, estuarine, and marine environments.

Adina Paytan, Assistant Professor
Institute of Marine Sciences
University of California- Santa Cruz
Chemical paleoceanography, biogeochemistry, chemical and isotopic tracers in sea water and marine sediments, environmental chemistry including methane emission from wetlands, phosphate, nitrogen and trace metal recycling in seawater and sediments, aerosol chemical composition and water pollution.

Clare E. Reimers, Professor
Director, Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies
Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University
Sediment biogeochemistry; in situ monitoring of aquatic systems; chemical sensor development and application.

John P. Smol, Professor
Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Paleolimnological techniques to track long-term environmental change; development and application of biomonitoring approaches; water quality issues such as acidification, eutrophication, and climatic change.

Gordon T. Taylor, Professor
Marine Sciences Research Center
Stony Brook University, NY
Microbial mediation of biogeochemical processes (particulary carbon cycling); trophic interactions among microorganisms; microbial biofouling; microbiological and chemical exchange processes at interfaces.

Rob Wheatcroft, Associate Professor
Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences
Oregon State University
Interdependence between sedimentological and benthic biological processes in marine environments; the role of episodic sediment transport events on continental margins; organism effects on sediment transport and bottom boundary layer mechanics.

Steven W. Wilhelm, Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Interactions of viruses and microorganisms in marine and freshwater environments, development of molecular methods for characterizing microbial and viral community composition as well as nutrient bioavailability, and the role of iron and other trace elements as limiting agents in aquatic systems.

Richard Zepp, Senior Research Scientist
Ecosystems Research Division
U.S. EPA, Athens
Interactions of solar UV radiation with biogeochemical cycles. Optics for underwater UV measurements, fluorescence and absorption properties of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM), and interactions of UV with CDOM and particles, including humic substances.

Past Associate Editors

Tommy D. Dickey (2002-2004)
University of California Santa Barbara

Lars Peter Nielsen (2002-2004)
Department of Microbial Ecology,Institute of Biology, University of Aarhus

James R. Karr (2002-2004)
University of Washington

Marlon Lewis (2002-2005)
Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University

Robert H. Byrne (2002-2006)
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida

Samantha B. Joye (2002-2006)
Department of Marine Sciences
University of Georgia

Craig Cary (2002-2007)
Director, Center for Marine Genomics
College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware

Sally MacIntyre (2002-2007)
Marine Science Institute and Institute for Computational Earth System Science
University of California at Santa Barbara

Mark Stacey (2005-2008)
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Berkeley

Heidi M. Sosik (2002-2008)
Biology Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Larry Madin (2002-2009)
Director, Ocean Life Institute
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution