Frank Edgar Muller-Karger

CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Personal Information:

   Born:

   Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A. / Hispanic

2. Education:

   1979	BS Biological Oceanography. Florida Institute of Technology. Melbourne, FL.
   1984	MS Oceanography. Institute of Marine Science. University of Alaska.
   1988	PhD in Marine and Estuarine Sciences. University of Maryland.
   2001	Master of Science in Management. University of South Florida.

3. Employment:

   2001/04	Commissioner, U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy
   2000/-	Full Professor. Tenured. University of South Florida
   1994/00	Associate Professor. Tenured 1994. University of South Florida
   1992/94	Program Scientist, Ocean Biogeochemistry Program: NASA Headquarters.
   1989/94	Assistant Professor. Department of Marine Science, USF
   1988/89	Research Associate, Department of Marine Science, USF

4. Professional Interests and Expertise:

   Interdisciplinary Earth science and Earth observation; Oceanography, coastal and estuarine science; Satellite oceanography and remote sensing; Science education and strategic planning for formal/informal public education; Integration of science, management and education; Ocean Policy

5. Professional Awards, Honors, and Scholarships:

   2006/-	Member, NRC committee "Extending Observations and Research Results to Practical Applications: A Review of NASA's Approach”
   2005	Julius A. Stratton Award for Leadership, awarded to members of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (Coastal Zone 2005 meeting)
   2005/-	Editorial Board, Caribbean Marine Science, Journal of the Institute for Marine Affairs (IMA), Trinidad and Tobago
   2005/08	Member, National Research Council Ocean Studies Board, National Academies
   2004	Admiral James D. Watkins Award for Contributions to Ocean Research and Education, Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE)
   2004	Gulf Guardian Award (EPA)

6. Member:

   AGU, ASLO; Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales de Venezuela (FLASA; Founding Member); Pan-Oceanic Remote Sensing Congress (PORSEC).

7. Grants and Contracts:

   Grants/contracts received from NSF, NASA, NOAA, ONR, USGS, MMS, The State of Florida, The Ocean Conservancy.

8. Partial List of Recent Relevant Publications:

   Biggs, Douglas C., Chuanmin Hu, and Frank E. Muller-Karger. 2007 (in press). Remotely sensed sea surface chlorophyll and calculated POC flux at Deep Gulf of Mexico Benthos sampling stations. Deep-Sea Res II. Topical issue on DGoMB program.

   Chen, Z., Hu, C., Conmy, R.N., Swarzenski, P., and Muller-Karger, F. 2007. Colored Dissolved Organic Matter in Tampa Bay, Florida. Marine Chemistry. Vol. 104. 98-109.

   Muller-Karger, Frank. E., et al. (In press, 2007) The CARIACO Oceanographic Time Series. In: Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins: A Global Synthesis. JGOFS Continental Margins Task Team (CMTT). Editors: Kon-Kee Liu, Larry Atkinson, Renato Quinones, Liana Talaue-McManus (2006) Springer-Verlag New York.

   Oey, Lie-Yauw, Tal Ezer, Chuanmin Hu, and Frank E. Muller-Karger. 2007. Baroclinic tidal flows and inundation processes in Cook Inlet, Alaska: Numerical modeling and satellite observations. Ocean Dynamics. DOI 10.1007/s10236-007-0103-8.

   Scranton, Mary I., Michelle McIntyre, Gordon T. Taylor, Frank Muller-Karger, Kent Fanning, Yrene Astor. 2006. Temporal Variability in the Nutrient Chemistry of the Cariaco Basin. In: Neretin L, Jørgensen BB & Murray J (eds), Past and Present Water Column Anoxia, NATO Sci Ser., Springer. 139-160.

   Taylor GT, Iabichella-Armas M, Varela R, Muller-Karger F, Lin X & Scranton MI. 2006. Microbial ecology of the Cariaco Basin's redoxcline: the U.S.-Venezuela CARIACO times series program. In: Neretin L, Jørgensen BB & Murray J (eds), Past and Present Water Column Anoxia, NATO Sci Ser., Springer. 473-499.

   Tedesco, Kathy, Robert Thunell, Yrene Astor, and Frank Muller-Karger. 2007. The oxygen isotope composition of planktonic foraminifera from the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela: Seasonal and interannual variations, Marine Micropaleontology. Vol. 62. 180-193.

   Thunell, R. C., C. R. Benitez-Nelson, R. Varela, Y. Astor, and Muller-Karger, Frank. E.. 2007 (In press). Particulate Organic Carbon Fluxes Along Upwelling-Dominated Continental Margins: Rates and Mechanisms. Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

9. Students:

   Enrique Montes, Digna Rueda, Inia Soto, Laura Lorenzoni, Carrie Wall, Ana Lucia Odriozola, Jorge Gomez, Jose Rafael Diaz, Paola Filippi, Denis Nadeau, David Palandro, Bisman Nababan, Fernando Gilbes, Lisa Vanderbloemen, MingRui Zhang, Wensheng Yao, Jingwei Ke, Herschel T. Hochman, Zhiqiang Chen, Josh Henson, Haiying Zhang. Non-USF: Joe Salisbury (UNH), Sergio Cerdeira (Universidad de la Habana), John Akl (undergr., Eckerd College), Paola Castellanos (undergr., Universidad Simon Bolivar).

10. Synergistic Activities:

    • Director, Institute for Marine Remote Sensing, University of South Florida.
    • Founding board member, Fundacion La Salle de Ciencias Naturales de Venezuela.
    • Numerous international and national broadcast and print media interviews and features on ocean policy.
    • Service on national committees: U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (2001-2005), Joint Ocean Commission Initiative paraticipant (2005-present), NASA Ocean Biogeochemistry program strategic plan advisor (2006-present); NAS Ocean Studies Board (2005-present); U.S. SCOR representative (2005-present).

11. Collaborators (last 48 months, partial list):

    Robert Thunell (University of South Carolina), Mary Scranton, Gordon Taylor and Charlie Flagg (all at Stony Brook University), Raymond Sambrotto (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), Karen Wishner (University of Rhode Island), Mitch Roffer (ROFFS, Inc.), Jim Hendee (NOAA), Dan Irwin (NASA), Ramon Varela (Fundacion La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Venezuela), Eduardo Klein (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela), and many in the SEACOOS/SECOORA region.