CRC Director

Kevin G. Sellner Position: Director                 Chesapeake Research Consortium, Inc.                 645 Contees Wharf Road                 Edgewater, MD, USA 21037                 (410) 798-1283/(301)261-4500                 (410) 693-2067 (Cell)                 (410) 798-0816 (Fax)                 sellnerk@si.edu Date of Birth: October 11, 1949 CV

Education:

1978 - Ph.D., Oceanography; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1973 - M.S., Marine Science; University of South Carolina, Columbia, South
            Carolina, U.S.A.
1971 - B.A., Biology; Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Current Activities and Interests:

As CRC Director, Kevin is responsible for identifying and expanding research activities in or relevant to the Chesapeake Bay watershed for the extensive scientific community within the CRC member institutions as well as other regional scientists. Additionally, Kevin is strongly committed to ensuring transfer of research results to regional managers and policy makers in understandable formats and manners for consideration in policy development for the Bay and its subestuaries. It's only through consideration of the most recent research results of the outstanding scientific community of the area that the most practical and scientifically defensible management of the watershed and its living resources can be assured.

As Executive Secretary of the Chesapeake Bay Program's Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), Kevin is also responsible for administering activities of this standing experts committee. For additional information on STAC, see the
STAC Website.

History:

In 2001, Kevin joined the CRC as Director after twenty years of active research in plankton ecology at the Academy of Natural Sciences and a four year period with NOAA's Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research. Kevin focused his research program on determining the fate of primary production in aquatic systems, particularly algal blooms. His research included extensive studies on cyanobacteria and dinoflagellate blooms in the Chesapeake and its tributaries as well as in the Baltic Sea and upwelling waters of Peru. At NOAA, he acted as the coordinator for the interagency research program ECOHAB (Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms) and during his tenure, over $50M was committed to bloom research in U.S. coastal waters.

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