Points of Contact (POC) by University

Florida A&M University
Michael Abazinge	michael.abazinge@famu.edu	Bioremediation
Ashvini Chauhan	ashvini.chauhan@famu.edu	Environmental biotechnology, microbial ecology, biodegradation
Jennifer Cherrier (Main Contact)	jennifer.cherrier@famu.edu	Marine biogeochemistry, oil biodegradation
Cynthia Harris	cynthia.harris2@famu.edu	Toxicologist, risk assessment, health disparities research
Ping Hsieh	yuch.hsieh@famu.edu	Wetland biogeochemistry
Wenrui Huang	wenrui.huang@famu.edu	Coastal modeling, Oil Spill Tracking and Monitoring
Charles Jagoe	charles.jagoe@famu.edu	Environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology
Katherine Milla	katherine.milla@famu.edu	Environmenta/Human-Related Risk Assessment/Management of Spill
Marcia Owens	marcia.owens@famu.edu	Spill Related Legal and Policy Issues
Michael Thomas	michaelthomas@nettally.com	Economist

Florida Atlantic University
Leonard Berry (Main Contact)	berry@fau.edu	Environmental studies
Fred Bloetscher	fbloetsc@fau.edu	Water quality changes, groundwater injection programs, occurrence and treatment of pharmaceutically active chemicals in water
Manhar Dhanak	dhanak@fau.edu	Hydrodynamics, physical oceanography, involved in field experiments using autonomous underwater vehicles
Tamara Frank	tfrank@hboi.fau.edu	Deep-sea ecosystems, water column ecology
Marguerite Koch-Rose	mkoch@fau.edu	Nutrient cycling and primary production in tropical marine ecosystems, as well as marine plant ecology and ecophysiology
Brian Lapointe	blapoin1@hboi.fau.edu	Nutrient pollution, coral reef ecology
Scott Markwith	smarkwit@fau.edu	Biogeography, biogeomorphology, vegetation dynamics and disturbance, aquatic systems, dispersal/migration process and environmental restoration
Daniel Meeroff	dmeeroff@fau.edu	Water treatment processes, water chemistry, environmental microbiology, natural detoxification mechanisms and hazardous waste treatment
Shirley Pomponi	spomponi@hboi.fau.edu	Sponges, deep water hard bottom ecosystems, coral reefs
Ed Proffitt	cproffit@fau.edu	Oil spill and restoration research
John Reed	jreed12@hboi.fau.edu	Deep sea coral reefs
John Scarpa	jscarpa1@hboi.fau.edu	Oyster restoration, bivalve culture, tunicate culture
Zhixiao Xie	xie@fau.edu	Geographic image retrieval, high resolution images, spatial temporal GIS analysis, environmental health and invasive species

Florida Gulf Coast University
David Fugate	dfugate@fgcu.edu	Physical oceanography
Ai Ning Loh	anloh@fgcu.edu	Marine chemistry - Organic Geochemistry
Michael Parsons	mparsons@fgcu.edu	Plankton Ecologist
Darren Rumbold (Main Contact)	drumbold@fgcu.edu	Ecotoxicology and Ecological Risk Assessment
Michael Savarese	msavares@fgcu.edu	Marine Geologist
Gregory Tolley	gtolley@fgcu.edu	Marine Ecology/Fisheries - Oyster reef ecology, Zooplankton community dynamics
Toshi Urakawa	hurakawa@fgcu.edu	Microbial ecology
Aswani Volety	avolety@fgcu.edu	Marine Ecology/Fisheries - bioaccumulation of PAHs, pesticides and heavy metals in shellfish and their impacts

Florida Institute of Technology
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Florida International University
Joe Boyer	joseph.boyer@fiu.edu	Water Quality
Jim Fourqurean	owner-halophila-list@fiu.edu	Seagrass/Benthos
Piero Gardinali	piero.gardinali@fiu.edu	Analytical Chemistry
Edward Glab	glabe@fiu.edu	Energy policy, crisis communications
Mike Heithaus (Main Contact)	michael.heithaus@fiu.edu	Marine Ecology
Rudolf Jaffe	jaffer@fiu.edu	Hydrocarbon dynamics
John Proni	john.proni@fiu.edu	Physical Oceanography
Gary Rand	gary.rand@fiu.edu	Ecotoxicology

Florida State University
Amy Baco-Taylor	abacotaylor@cob.fsu.edu	Benthic ecology, deep sea ecology, whale falls and chemosynthetic ecosytems
Mark Bonn	mbonn@cob.fsu.edu	Tourism
Mark Bourassa	bourassa@coaps.fsu.edu	Winds, Remote Sensing
Jeffrey Chanton	jchanton@fsu.edu	Gas hydrates, organic chemistry
Eric Chassignet	echassignet@coaps.fsu.edu	Ocean Modeling
Felicia Coleman	coleman@bio.fsu.edu	Marine Ecology and Fisheries
Joseph Donoghue	jfdonoghue@fsu.edu	Coastal sediment processes, coastal hazards, estuarine processes
W. Ross Ellington (Main Contact)	wellington@admin.fsu.edu	Biological science
Oscar Garcia-Pineda	oscar.oggp@gmail.com	Oil spill mapping, image processng, satellite remote sensing
Elise Gornish	egornish@bio.fsu.edu	Plant Ecology, Barrier Island Vegetation
Stephen Kish	kish@gly.fsu.edu	Remote sensing, GIS, coastal morphodynamics
Don Levitan	levitan@bio.fsu.edu	Benthic Ecology, Invertebrate Populations, St. Joe Bay
Ian MacDonald	imacdonald@fsu.edu	Oil Spill, Remote Sensing
Pat Maroney	pmaroney@cob.fsu.edu	Risk Assessment and Remediation
Rochelle Marrinan	rmarrinan@fsu.edu	Archaeological site survey, zooarchaeology
Thomas Miller	miller@bio.fsu.edu	Plant Ecology, Barrier Island Vegetation
Steve Morey	morey@coaps.fsu.edu	Ocean Modeling
Ionel Navon	inavon@fsu.edu	Data assimilation
James O'Brien	jim.obrien@coaps.fsu.edu	Climate variability, ocean modeling, satellite oceanography
Paul Ruscher	pruscher@fsu.edu	Meteorology
Melanie Simmons	msimmons@fsu.edu	IESES Coordinator
Kevin Speer	kspeer@ocean.fsu.edu	In-situ data and observations, surface drifter tracking, seafloor bottom drifters
Chris Stallings	stallings@bio.fsu.edu	Fish Ecology, Seagrass, Reef Ecology
Philip Steinberg	psteinberg@fsu.edu	Law of the sea, environmental perception, environmental communication
Wilton (Tony) Sturges	wsturges@fsu.edu	Loop current separation events, large scale circulation in the gulf
Kamal Tawfig	tawfig@eng.fsu.edu	Geotechnical engineering

Jacksonville University
A. Quinton White	qwhite@ju.edu	Biology and marine science

University of Florida
Don Behringer	behringer@ufl.edu	Benthic Ecology, Crustaceans
Karen A. Bjorndal	bjorndal@ufl.edu	Sea Turtle Research
James Cato	jccato@ufl.edu	Ocean and coastal economics
Mark Clark	clarkmw@ufl.edu	Plant Ecology
Carl Fitz	cfitz@ufl.edu	Ecological Modeling
Ruth Francis-Floyd	francis-floydr@mail.vetmed.ufl.edu	Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Wildlife Rescue
Thomas Frazer	frazer@ufl.edu	Ocean Ecology
Kanika Inglett	kanika@ufl.edu	Microbial Enzymes
Patrick Inglett	pinglett@ufl.edu	Stable Isotope, Nitrogen, Carbon Biogeochemistry
Chuck Jacoby	cajacoby@ufl.edu	Plankton/Zooplankton Ecology, Estuarine Water Quality
Sobha Jaishankar (Main Contact)	sjaishan@ufl.edu	Research
Bill Lindberg, PhD	wjl@ufl.edu	Fisheries Ecology, Benthic Habitat, Behavioral Ecology
Debra Murie	dmurie@ufl.edu	Fisheries Ecology, Habitat Assessment, Population Dynamics
Andy Ogram	aogram@ufl.edu	Microbial/molecular Biology, Biotic Degradation of Organic Compounds
Todd Osborne	osbornet@ufl.edu	Coastal Wetlands and Biogeochemistry
Craig Osenberg	osenberg@ufl.edu	Coral reef ecosystems, fish ecology, impact assessment
Daryl Parkyn	dparkyn@ufl.edu	Fisheries Ecology, Habitat Assessment, Population Dynamics
Ed Phlips	phlips@ufl.edu	Phytoplankton Ecology, Benthic Algae, Water Quality
Lori Pennington-Gray	penngray@hhp.ufl.edu	Tourism Crisis Management
Denise Petty	pettyd@ufl.edu	Wildlife Rescue, Fish Health
Bill Pine	billpine@ufl.edu	Quantitative Models to Assess Species Status and Recovery
Ramesh Reddy	krr@ufl.edu	Biogeochemistry
Leslie Sturmer	lnst@ifas.ufl.edu	Fisheries, Shellfish Aquaculture
Peter Sheng	pete@coastal.ufl.edu	Coastal Oceanography
Max Teplitski	maxtep@ufl.edu	Microbial/Molecular Biology, Toxic Algal Blooms
John Thomas	thomas@ufl.edu	Abiotic Degradation of Organics
Arnoldo Valle-Levinson	arnoldo@coastal.ufl.edu	Estuarine and coastal circulation - observation and modeling, Floatable trajectories
Carl Walters	c.walters@fisheries.ubc.ca	Ecosystem, Stock Assessment Models for West Florida Shelf, Northern GOM
Roy Yanong	rpy@ufl.edu	Wildlife Rescue, Fish Health

University of Miami
Elliot Atlas	eatlas@rsmas.miami.edu	Air and water sampling for organic compound
Jerry Ault	jault@rsmas.miami.edu	Fishery Management
Robert Cowen (Main Contact)	rcowen@rsmas.miami.edu	Marine Biology
Andrew Baker	abaker@rsmas.miami.edu	Coral reef ecology, climate change, coral-algal symbiosis, coral bleaching
Daniel Benetti	dbenetti@rsmas.miami.edu	Ofshore aquaculture, bottom sampling, water column samples for water quality
Shuyi Chen	schen@rsmas.miami.edu	Real-time satellite cloud and weather system tracking
Maria Criales	mcriales@rsmas.miami.edu	Ecology, taxonomy, recruitment of shrimps in SF
David Die	d.die@rsmas.miami.edu	Evolution of marine fishery and ecosystem management strategies
Crawford Douglas	dcrawford@rsmas.miami.edu	Evolutionary genetics
Gregor Eberli	geberli@rsmas.miami.edu	Geology and geophysics
James Englehardt	jenglehardt@rsmas.miami.edu	Sunken oil transport modeling, oil spill risk assessment, decision support models
Lora Fleming	lfleming@med.miami.edu	Oceans and human health, poison control
Felimon Gayanilo	gayanilo@rsmas.miami.edu	Coastal/ocean observing data management
Hans Graber	hgraber@rsmas.miami.edu	Remote Sensing
Brain Haus	bhaus@rsmas.miami.edu	Coastal oceanographic measurements, inlet processes
Bill Johns	wjohns@rsmas.miami.edu	Physical oceanography
HeeSook Kang	hkang@rsmas.miami.edu	Modeling and prediction, coastal circulation
Villy Kourafalou	vkourafalou@rsmas.miami.edu	Ocean Modeling
David Letson	dletson@rsmas.miami.edu	Economist
Diego Lirman	dlirman@rsmas.miami.edu	Disturbance Ecology of Tropical Coastal Communities
Arthur Mariano	amariano@rsmas.miami.edu	Ocean Modeling, Ocean Prediction, and Physical Oceanography
Josefina Olascoaga	jolascoaga@rsmas.miami.edu	West Florida Shelf Modeling, Transport, Harmful Algal Blooms
Marjorie Oleksiak	moleksiak@rsmas.miami.edu	Evolutionary genetics
Peter Ortner	portner@rsmas.miami.edu	South Florida Ecosystem Health
Nick Shay	lshay@rsmas.miami.edu	Air-Sea Interaction
Kaufui Vincent Wong	kwong@miami.edu	Oil Containment Booms
Daniel Solis	d.solis@miami.edu	Economist
Su Sponaugle	ssponaugle@rsmas.miami.edu	Ecology and population replenishment of coral reef fishes

New College of Florida
Leo Demski	demski@ncf.edu	Fish sensory ecology, sharks and bony fish physiology
Sandra Gilchrist	gilchrist@ncf.edu	Invertebrate ecology and population dynamics, crustacean biology, coral genetics
Elzie McCord	mccord@ncf.edu	Toxicology
Margaret Lowman	lowman@ncf.edu	Ecology, ecological assessment, Ecological Society of America rapid response team
Katie Walstrom	walstrom@ncf.edu	Biochemistry
Heidi Harley	harley@ncf.edu	Comparative Psychology: Marine mammal behavior and cognition
Frank Alcock	falcock@ncf.edu	Political Science, marine policy
Necmettin Yildirim	nyildirim@ncf.edu	Mathematics, mathematical modeling of biological systems
Julie Morris (Main Contact)	morris@ncf.edu	Gulf of Mexico fisheries management

Nova Southeastern University
Richard Dodge (Main Contact)	dodge@nova.edu	Coral Reef Ecosystems, Use of Dispersants
David Gilliam	gilliam@nova.edu	Coral Reef Biology and Ecology, assessment, monitoring, and restoration
Amy Hirons	hirons@nova.edu	Marine Biology, Ecology, Food Webs, Plankton
Mahmood Shivji	mahmood@nova.edu	Fish
David Kerstetter	kerstett@nova.edu	Fisheries
Alexander Soloviev	soloviev@nova.edu	Oceanography, Ocean Observing, Modeling, Air-Sea Interaction

University of Central Florida
Scott C. Hagen (Main Contact)	shagen@mail.ucf.edu	Civil Engineering, Coastal and Estuarine Modeling of Tide and Storm Surge Flows
Denise DeLorme	ddelorme@mail.ucf.edu	Stakeholder Responses to Natural and Manmade Disasters
Steven Duranceau	sdurance@mail.ucf.edu	Environmental Engineering, Desalination Process Operation Troubleshooting and Analysis
Lew Ehrhart	lehrhart@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu	+30-Year Data Sets of Juvenile Turtle Numbers on the Florida East Coast
John Fauth	jfauth@mail.ucf.edu	Biology, Health Biomarkers of Coral Reef and Estuarine Organisms
Linda Walters	pesacks@earthlink.net	Biology/Ecology/Conservation/Restoration of Oyster Reefs and Associated Communities

University of North Florida
Dale Casamatta	dcasamat@unf.edu	Phycology and microbial ecology
Courtney Hackney	c.hackney@unf.edu	Extensive experience with oil spills on tidal marshes
David Jaffee	djaffee@unf.edu	Social and Economic Impacts, Ports
J. David Lambert	jlambert@unf.edu	Geo-spatial data, Coastal Rapid Environmental Assessment Team
Dan Moon	dmoon@unf.edu	Coastal Biology, Wetland Ecology Impacts
Radha Pyati	radha.pyati@unf.edu	Environmental Chemistry
Cliff Ross	cliff.ross@unf.edu	Cellular mechanisms of stress response in coastal organisms
Patrick Welsh (Main Contact)	pwelsh@unf.edu	Meteorology and Air-Sea Interaction, Ocean Data Sources, Weather Information

University of South Florida
Ben Flower	bflower@marine.usf.edu	Benthic foraminiferal assemblages and sediment geochemistry, "sediment health" pre- and post-accident
William Hogarth (Main Contact)	billhogarth@usf.edu	Fisheries
Chuanmin Hu	hu@marine.usf.edu	Optical Oceanography
Yonggang Liu	yliu18@gmail.com	Ocean Modeling
David Mann	dmann@marine.usf.edu	Passive acoustics, fish spawning, marine mammals
Frank E. Muller-Karger	carib@marine.usf.edu	Satellite remote sensing
Ernst Peebles	epeebles@marine.usf.edu	Fisheries
Robert Weisberg	weisberg@marine.usf.edu	Ocean Modeling
Lianyuan Zheng	lzheng@marine.usf.edu	Ocean Modeling

University of West Florida
Elizabeth Benchley	ebenchley@uwf.edu	Archeological Sites
John Bratten	jbratten@uwf.edu	Anthropology, Archaeology
Jane Caffrey	jcaffrey@uwf.edu	Estuarine Ecology, Biogeochemsitry
Jerry Cartwright	jcartwright@uwf.edu	Small Business Development Center Network, State Director's Office
Greg Cook	gcook1@uwf.edu	Underwater Archaeology
Rick Harper	rharper@uwf.edu	Economics
Fredrick Hileman	fhileman@uwf.edu	Organic Analysis
Wade Jeffrey	wjeffrey@uwf.edu	Microbiology, Oceanography
Joe Lepo	jlepo@uwf.edu	Microbiology, Oil Biodegradation
Klaus Meyer-Arendt	kjma@uwf.edu	Environmental Studies, Coastal Reefs
William Patterson	wpatterson@uwf.edu	Northern Gulf Fisheries
Matthew Schwartz	mschwartz@uwf.edu	Hydrology, Biogeochemistry
Richard Snyder (Main Contact)	rsnyder@uwf.edu	Marine Ecology, Pollution

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