Kevin Sellner

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-	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, Coastal and 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, C. Pasiche, University of Puerto Rico 2008; Committee member for T.R. Miller, Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of MD, Ph.D., 2004; A. Dvarskas, A. Thessen, and D. Johns, University of Maryland Marine, Estuarine, & Environmental Sciences Ph.D. candidates, 2004-present; others prior to 2000; mentor for UMD GEMSTONE Team Breathe 2008-2011.

Teaching Activities:

Lecturer, MEES608I, Spring, 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2008 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; member of National Harmful Algal Bloom Committee (NHC) 2006-2007, chair, NHC Interprogram Committee; 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; co-editor of Living Shorelines Summit Proceedings, 2008.

Publications:

Najjar, R., C.R. Pyke, M.B. Adams, D. Breitburg, C. Hershner, W.M. Kemp, R. Howarth, M. Mulholland, M. Paolisso, D. Secor, K.G. Sellner, D. Wardrop, and R. Wood. (in prep.). Potential climate-change impacts on the Chesapeake Bay. Climate Res.

Bauer, M., T.M. Leschine, B.G. Blount, C.M. Pomeroy, P. Hoagland, L.L. Lampl, C.W. Scherer, D.L. Ayres, P.A. Tester, M.R. Sengco, K.G. Sellner, and J. Schumacker. (in press). Human dimensions research strategies for harmful algal bloom response: Enhancing science for coastal decision making. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Brownlee, E.F., S.G. Sellner, and K.G. Sellner. 2008. Potential role of clay in mitigating Chesapeake Bay algal blooms. Pages 148-151 in: Ø. Moestrup et al. (eds.). Harmful Algae. Proc. 12th Intl. Conf. Harmful Algae. ISSHA and IOC-UNESCO, Copenhagen.

Moestrup, Ø., G. Doucette, H. Enevoldsen, A. Godhe, G. Hallegraeff, B. Luckas, N. Lundholm, J. Lewis, K. Rengefors, K. Sellner, K. Steidinger, P. Tester, and A. Zingone (eds.). 2008. Harmful Algae. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Harmful Algae. ISSHA and IOC-UNESCO. Copenhagen. pp 397.

Heisler, J., P. Glibert, J. Burkholder, D. Anderson, W. Cochlan, W. Dennison, Q. Dortch, C. Gobler, C. Heil, E. Humphries, A. Lewitus, R. Magnien, H. Marshall, K. Sellner, D. Stockwell, D. Stoecker, and M. Suddleson. 2008. Eutrophication and harmful algal blooms: A scientific consensus. Harmful Algae 8: 3-13.

Place, A.R., E.F. Brownlee, H. Nonogaki, J.E. Adolf, T.R. Bachvaroff, S.G. Sellner, and K.G. Sellner. 2008. Responses of bivalve molluscs to the ichthyotoxic dinoflagellate Karlodinium veneficum. Pages 5-8 in: Ø. Moestrup et al. (eds.). Harmful Algae. Proc. 12th Intl. Conf. Harmful Algae. ISSHA and IOC-UNESCO, Copenhagen.

Sengco, M.R. and K.G. Sellner. 2008. HABs and clay flocculation: Review and discussion of studies, impacts, and future directions. Pages 158-161 in: Ø. Moestrup et al. (eds.). Harmful Algae. Proc. 12th Intl. Conf. Harmful Algae. ISSHA and IOC-UNESCO, Copenhagen.

Brownlee, E.F., S.G. Sellner, K.G. Sellner, H. Nonogaki, J.E. Adolf, T.R. Bachvaroff, and A.R. Place. 2008. Responses of Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin) and C. ariakensis (Fujita) to bloom-forming phytoplankton including ichthyotoxic Karlodinium veneficum (Ballantine). J. Shellfish Res. 27: 581-591.

Erdle, S., J.L.D. Davis, and K.G. Sellner, eds. 2008. Management, Policy, Science and Engineering of Nonstructural Erosion Control in the Chesapeake Bay: Proceedings of the 2006 Living Shoreline Summit. CRC Publ. No. 08-164, Gloucester Point, VA. 136 pp.

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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