CURRICULUM VITAE

William Closson Boicourt

Horn Point Laboratory
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Cambridge, Maryland 21613-0775
Phone: 410-221-8426
Fax: 410-221-8490
Email: boicourt@hpl.umces.edu

I. Education

1966 B.A., Physics, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
1969 M.A., The Johns Hopkins University, Physical Oceanography
1973 Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, Physical Oceanography

II. Professional Background

Professor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, 1994-Present

Associate Professor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental
and Estuarine Studies 1982-1993

Associate Research Scientist, Chesapeake Bay Institute, The Johns Hopkins
University 1973-1982

Visiting Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1981

III. Research

A. Area of professional expertise

Physical oceanography of shallow waters, estuaries, river plumes; remote sensing and autonomous samplers; physical-biological interactions and food web dynamics.

B. Select Publications

Boicourt, W.C., W.J. Wiseman, Jr. A. Valle-Levinson, and L.P. Atkinson. 1998. The Continental Shelf of the Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico: In the shadow of the western Boundary Current. In: A. Robinson and K. Brink, eds. The Sea, Vol. 11, The Global Coastal Ocean: Regional Studies and Syntheses, pp.135-182.

Boicourt, W.C., M. Kuzmic, and T.S. Hopkins, The Inland Sea: Circulation of the Chesapeake Bay and the Northern Adriatic. 1999. In: Malone, T.C., A. Malej, L.W. Harding, Jr., N. Smodlaka, and R.E. Turner, eds., Ecosystems at the Land-Sea Margin: Drainage Basin to Coastal Sea, Coastal and Estuarine Studies 55: 81-129, American Geophysical Union.

Nixon, S.W., J.W. Ammerman, L.P. Atkinson, V.M. Berounsky, G. Billen, W.C. Biocourt,  W.R. Boynton, T.M. Church, D.M. DiToro, R. Elmgren, J.H. Garber, A.E. Giblin, R.A. Jahnke, N.J.P. Owens, M.E.Q. Pilson, & S.P. Seitzinger. 1996. The fate of nitrogen and phosphorous at the land-sea margin of the North Atlantic Ocean. Biogeochemistry 35: 141-180.

Boicourt, W.C. 1993. Estuaries: Where the river meets the sea. Oceanus 36(2): 29-37.

Boicourt, W.C. 1992. The influences of circulation processes on dissolved oxygen in Chesapeake Bay. In: Dissolved Oxygen in Chesapeake Bay D. Smith, M. Leffler, and G. Mackiernan, eds. Maryland Sea Grant, College Park, MD. P. 7-59.


C. MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Estuarine Research Federation
The Society of the Sigma Xi

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