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Kevin Sellner |
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Kevin G. Sellner
Position: Director |
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.
Professional Experience:
2001- Director, Chesapeake Research Consortium, Inc. and Visiting Professor, UMCES-Horn Point Laboratory; Executive Officer, Chesapeake Bay Program Science and Technology Advisory Committee. 2001-2004 Research Associate, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD 1998-2001 Special Faculty Membership, University of MD Graduate Faculty, 10/21/99-10/21/01. 1998-2001 NOAA-COP, ECOHAB Coordinator, and Oceanographer. Oversee, manage, and coordinate Federal interagency (NOAA, NSF, EPA, ONR, NASA) research program on the ecology and oceanography of harmful algal blooms. 1996-1998 IPA, NOAA-COP, ECOHAB Coordinator. Oversee, manage, and coordinate Federal interagency (NOAA, NSF, EPA, ONR, NASA, USDA) research program on the ecology and oceanography of harmful algal blooms. 1981-1998 Assistant, Associate, and Full Curator, Benedict Estuarine Research Laboratory, The Academy of Natural Sciences. Basic and applied research programs in plankton ecology of aquatic systems. 1978-1981 Assistant Curator, Head of Algae Section, Division of Limnology and Ecology, The Academy of Natural Sciences. Basic and applied research programs in plankton ecology in aquatic systems.
Affiliations:
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Atlantic Estuarine Research Society, Estuarine Research Federation (Assoc. Editor, 1998-), International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae
Student Advisory Activities:
Advisor, SERC Summer Intern Andrea Drzewianowski, Goucher College, 2002, M. Lutz, St. Joseph's University, 2004, L. Esposito, McDaniel College 2006; Committee member for T.R. Miller, Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of MD, Ph.D., 2004; D. Johns, A. Dvarskas and A. Thessen, University of Maryland Marine, Estuarine, & Environmental Sciences Ph.D. candidates, 2004-present; others prior to 2000.
Teaching Activities:
Lecturer, MEES608I, Spring, 2000, 2004, 2006 University of MD Marine, Estuarine, & Environmental Sciences course "Algal Blooms: Causes, consequences, and conjecture."
Extramural Activities:
Co-editor, EU-US Harmful Algal Bloom Program. An initiative for international research support; Associate Editor, Estuaries; review editor Aquatic Microbial Ecology; co-author for Biosensors for Harmful Algal Blooms, ACT and CRC publication from a March, 2002 workshop, Solomons, MD; editor or contributor to several NOAA-produced HAB reports including the revised National HAB Plans, Harmful Algal Research and Response: A National Environmental Science Strategy 2005-2015 (HARRNESS) and Harmful Algal Research and Response: A Human Dimensions Strategy 2005 and 2006; contributor to Heinz Center HA Indicators; member of the USGS Chesapeake Bay Executive Advisory Team 2005-; organizer and facilitator for Fish Stock Monitoring Workshop, March, 2006; Endocrine Disruptors in the Chesapeake Bay: What we know and don’t, November, 2006 & March, 2007; Living Shorelines Summit, December, 2006; Fish Health Workshop, January, 2007.
Publications:
Brownlee, E.F., A.R. Place, H. Nonogaki, J.E. Adolf, T.R. Bachvaroff, S.G. Sellner, and K.G. Sellner. (in revision). Crassostrea ariakensis and C. virginica responses to ichthyotoxic Karlodinium veneficum. For the proceedings of the 12th International Conf of HABs, Denmark.Brownlee, E.F., S.G. Sellner, and K.G. Sellner. (submitted). Potential role of clay in mitigating Chesapeake Bay algal blooms. For the proceedings of the 12th International Conf of HABs, Denmark.
Brownlee, E.F., S.G. Sellner, K.G. Sellner, A.R. Place, H. Nonogaki, and J.E. Adolf. (submitted). Crassostrea virginica and C. ariakenis responses to ichthyotoxic Karlodinium veneficum. J. Shellfisheries Res.
Sengco, M.R. and K.G. Sellner. (in revision). HABs and clay flocculation: Some species, some places, but not a silver bullet (aka Clays and Mitigation). For the proceedings of the 12th International Conf of HABs, Denmark.
Sellner, K.G., ed. 2005. Hurricane Isabel in Perspective: Proceedings of a Conference. CRC Publ. No. 05-160, Heritage Press, Edgewater, MD. 266 pp.
Glibert, P.M., D.M. Anderson, P. Gentien, E. Graneli, and K.G. Sellner. 2005. The global, complex phenomena of harmful algal blooms. Oceanography 18(2): 136-147.
Brownlee, E.F., S.G. Sellner, and K.G. Sellner 2005. Prorocentrum minimum blooms: Potential impacts on dissolved oxygen and Chesapeake Bay oyster settlement and growth. Harmful Algae 4(3): 593-602.
Glibert, P.G. and K.G. Sellner, eds. 2005. Ecology and physiology of Prorocentrum minimum. Harmful Algae Special Issue 4(3): 447-650.
Sellner,K.G., G.J. Doucette, and G.J. Kirkpatrick. 2003. Harmful Algal Blooms: Causes, impacts, and detection. J. Indus. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 30: 383-406.
Brownlee, E.F., S.G. Sellner, and K.G. Sellner. 2003. The effects of barley straw (Hordeum vulgare) on freshwater and brackish phytoplankton and cyanobacteria. J. Appl. Phycol. 15: 525-531.
Bundy, M.H., D.L. Breitburg, and K.G. Sellner. 2003. The responses of Patuxent River upper trophic levels to nutrient and trace element induced changes in the lower food web. Estuaries 26: 365-384.
Sellner, K.G., S.G. Sellner, R.V. Lacouture, and R.E. Magnien. 2001. Excessive nutrients select for dinoflagellates in the stratified Patapsco River estuary: Margalef reigns. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 220: 93-102.
Breitburg, D.L., J.G. Sanders, C.C. Gilmour, C.A. Hatfield, R.W. Osman, G.F. Riedel, S.P. Seitzinger, and K.G. Sellner. 1999. Variability in responses to nutrients and trace elements, and transmission of stressor effects through an estuarine food web. Limnol. Oceanogr. 44: 837-863.
Fisher, T.R., A.B. Gustafson, K. Sellner, R. Lacouture, L.W. Haas, R.L. Wetzel, R. Magnien, D. Everitt, B. Michaels, and R. Karrh. 1999. Spatial and temporal variation of resource limitation in Chesapeake Bay. Mar. Biol. 133: 763-778.
Sellner, K.G. and S. Fonda-Umani. 1999. Dinoflagellate blooms and mucilage production. Pages 173-206 in: T.C. Malone, A. Malej, L.W. Harding, Jr., N. Smodlaka, R.E. Turner (eds.), , Ecosystems at the Land-Sea Margin: Drainage Basin to Coastal Sea. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.
Sellner, K.G. 1997. Physiology, ecology, and toxic properties of marine cyanobacteria blooms. Limnol. Oceanogr. 42:1089-1104.
Sellner, K.G. and E.W. Nealley. 1997. Diel fluctuations in dissolved free amino acids and monosaccharides in Chesapeake Bay dinoflagellate blooms. Mar. Chem. 56:193-200.
Malone, T.C., D.J. Conley, T.R. Fisher, P.M. Glibert, L.W. Harding and K.G. Sellner. 1996. Scales of nutrient limited phytoplankton productivity in Chesapeake Bay. Estuaries 19:371-385.
Sellner, K.G., M.M. Olson and K. Olli. 1996. Copepod interactions with toxic and non-toxic cyanobacteria from the Gulf of Finland. Phycologia. 35:177-182.
Iannuzzi, T.J., M.P. Weinstein, K.G. Sellner & J.C. Barrett. 1996. Habitat disturbance and marina development: An assessment of ecological effects. I. Changes in primary production due to dredging and marina construction. Estuaries 19: 257-271.
Kononen, K. and K.G. Sellner. 1995. Marine cyanobacteria blooms: Toxic cyanobacteria blooms in marine, estuarine, and coastal ecosystems. Pages 858-860 in: P. Lassus, G. Arzul, E. Erard-LeDen, P. Gentien & C. Marcaillou-LeBaut (eds.): Harmful algal blooms. Lavoisier. Paris, France.
Sellner, K.G., S.E. Shumway, M.W. Luckenbach and T.L. Cucci. 1995. The effects of dinoflagellate blooms on the oyster Crassostrea virginica in Chesapeake Bay. Pages 505-512 in: P. Lassus, G. Arzul, E. Erard-LeDen, P. Gentien & C. Marcaillou-LeBaut (eds.) Harmful algal blooms. Lavoisier, Paris, France.
Sellner, K.G., M.M. Olson, and K. Kononen. 1994. Copepod grazing in a summer cyanobacteria bloom in the Gulf of Finland. Hydrobiologia 292/293: 249-254.
Others back through 1976.
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