CURRICULUM VITAE

Thomas C. Malone

Horn Point Laboratory
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
2020 Horn Point Road
PO Box 775
Cambridge, MD 21613
Phone: 410-221-8406
Fax :410-221-8473
Email:malone@hpl.umces.edu

PERSONAL DATA

Date of Birth: 7 September 1943
Place of Birth: Banana River, Florida

EDUCATION

B.A. Colorado College, Zoology, 1965
M.S. University of Hawaii, Oceanography, 1967
Ph.D. Stanford University, Biology, 1971

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

1971-76: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, City College of CUNY, New York (granted tenure in 1976)
1976-80: Senior Research Associate, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York
1976-80: Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biology, City College of CUNY
1980-82: Oceanographer, Oceanographic Division, Department of Energy and Environment, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
1982-83: Associate Professor, The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, Maryland
1983 - present: Professor, The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, Maryland
1988-90: Acting President, The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
1990 - present: Director, Horn Point Environmental Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
1992-96: Director, EPA Multiscale Experimental Ecosystem Research Center, The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Dynamics of marine ecosystems; phytoplankton ecology; coastal eutrophication

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 1990-2000

_____ and H.W. Ducklow. 1990. Microbial biomass in the coastal plume of the Chesapeake Bay: Phytoplankton-bacterioplankton relationships. Limnol. Oceanogr. 35: 296-312.

_____ and W.H. Bell. 1991. Environmental Research, Policy and Regulation: The Chesapeake Bay Experience. Mar. Pollution Bulletin, 23: 497-501.

_____, H.W. Ducklow, E.R. Peele, and S. Pike. 1991. Picoplankton carbon flux in Chesapeake Bay. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 78: 11-22.

_____. 1992. Effects of water column processes on dissolved oxygen, nutrients, phytoplankton and zooplankton. pp. 61-112 In: (D.E. Smith, M. Leffler, and G. Mackiernan, eds.) "Oxygen Dynamics in the Chesapeake Bay, A Synthesis of Recent Research," Maryland Sea Grant Publication UM-SG-TS-92-01.

D.J. Conley and _____. 1992. Annual cycle of dissolved silicate in Chesapeake Bay: implications for the production and fate of phytoplankton biomass. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 81: 121-128.

_____, W. Boynton, T. Horton and C. Stevenson. 1993. Nutrient Loadings to Surface Waters: Chesapeake Bay Case Study. In: Keeping Pace with Science and Engineering: Case Studies in Environmental Regulation. M.F. Uman and C. O'Melia (eds.) National Academy Press, pp. 8-38

_____, S.E. Pike and D.J. Conley. 1993. Transient variations in phytoplankton productivity at the JGOFS Bermuda time series station. Deep-Sea Research, 40: 903-924.

_____, and L.D. Wright. 1994. Planning Today for the Coastal Research of Tomorrow. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 75(21): 243-244.

M.R. Roman, D.A. Caron, P. Kremer, E.J. Lessard, L.P. Madin, _____, J.M. Napp, E.R. Peele and M.J. Youngbluth. 1995. Spatial and temporal changes in the partitioning of organic carbon in the plankton community of the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda. Deep Sea Research I, 42(6):943-972.

D.A. Caron, D.A., H.G. Dam, P. Kremer, E.J. Lessard, L.P. Madin, _____, J.M Napp, E.R. Peele, M.R. Roman and M.J. Youngbluth. 1995. The contribution of microorganisms to particulate carbon and nitrogen in surface waters of the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda. Deep Sea Research I, 42(6):973-992.

P.M. Glibert, D.J. Conley, T.R. Fisher, L.W. Harding and _____. 1995. Dynamics of the 1990 winter/spring bloom in Chesapeake Bay. MEPS, 122:27-43.

_____, D.J. Conley, T.R. Fisher, P.M. Glibert, L.W. Harding, K. Sellner. 1996. Scales of nutrient limited phytoplankton productivity in Chesapeake Bay. Estuaries, 19(2B): 371-385.

_____, and D.A. Nemazie. 1996. Toward a National Agenda for Research in the Coastal Zone: Where Are We? Biol. Bull. 190: 245-251.

_____, A. Malej, N. Smodlaka. 1996. Trends in Land-Use, Water Quality and Fisheries: A Comparison of the Northern Adriatic Sea and the Chesapeake Bay. Periodicum Biologorum. 98(2): 137-150.

Bronk, D.A., P.M. Glibert, _____, S. Banahan and E. Sahlsten. 1998. Inorganic and organic nitrogen cycling in Chesapeake Bay: autotrophic versus heterotrophic processes and relationships to carbon flux. Aquat. Microb. Ecol., 15:177-189.

_____, T.C., A. Malej, L.W. Harding, N. Smodlaka (eds.). 1999. Ecosystems at the Land-Sea Margin: Drainage Basin to the Coastal Sea. AGU, Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Series, No. 55, 381 p.

Howarth, R.D. Anderson, J. Cloern, C. Elfring, C. Hopkinson, B. Lopointe, _____ , N. Marcus, K. McClathery, A. Sharpley and D. Walker. 2000. Nutrient pollution of coastal rivers, bays and seas. Issues in Ecology, No. 7, Ecol. Soc. Am., 15 p.

_____ and M. Cole. 2000. Toward a global scale coastal ocean observing system. Oceanography, 13: 7-11.

_____ B. Baird, M. Brady, R. Dean, J. Grimes, S. Henrichs, J. Knauss, B. Mooney Jr., M. Mullin, R. O'Boyle, R. Paine, and L. Rosenfeld. 2000. Bridging Boundaries Through Regional Marine Research. Ocean Studies Board, National Research Council, National Academy Press, 115 pp.

RECENT TECHNICAL REPORTS

Malone, T.C. and L.W. Botsford. 1998. Interactions and exchanges among coastal ecosystems on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Background paper for OEUVRE (NSF, OCE Biological Oceanography Strategic Planning Workshop)

Nowlin, W., _____and others. 1999. Toward a U.S. Plan for an Integrated, Sustained Ocean Observing System. Prepared on behalf of the National Ocean Research Leadership Council for the Honorable Jim Saxton and the Honorable Curt Weldon, April 1999.(http://core.ssc.erc.msstate.edu/NOPPobsplan.html)

_____ 1999. An Ocean Observing System for U.S. Coastal Waters, First Steps. Workshop Report, U.S. Coastal GOOS Office (NOAA, NSF, EPA, NASA).

_____ and others. 2000. Strategic Design Plan for the Coastal Component of the Global Ocean Observing System. GOOS Report No. 90, Reports of Meetings of Experts and Equivalent Bodies, The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO.(http://ioc.unesco.org/goos/CGOOSPLANver7.doc)


SELECTED SERVICE ACTIVITIES

University of Maryland

Chancellor's Council 1988-90
Council of Presidents 1988-90
Chancellor's Marine Affairs Coordinating Council, Chairman 1988-90
Executive Board, Coastal and Estuarine Policy Program 1988-90
Life Sciences Review Committee 1994-96
Institutional Coordinating Committee of the MD Sea Grant College 1995-1996
Environmental Programs Coordinating Council (EPCC), 1995-2000

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

UMCES Administrative Council 1988- present
UMCES Faculty Senate, Chairman 1987-1988

State & Regional

Governor's Chesapeake Bay Work Group 1988-90
Chesapeake Research Consortium Board of Trustees, Chairman 1988-90
Science Advisory Board, Maryland Power Plant Research Program 1987-1988
Science Advisory Committee, Maryland Sea Grant College 1987-1989
Southern Association of Marine Laboratories, Executive Board 1996-1999
UMCES-DNR, Chair of ad hoc MOU Committee, 1997-1998
Maryland Eastern Shore Leadership, 1999

National and International

ASLO, President-Elect, President, Past-President, 1996-2002
Chair, Coastal GOOS Panel, 1997-2000 (IOC, WMO, UNEP and ICSU)
Chair, Coastal Ocean Observations Panel, 2000 - present (IOC, WMO, UNEP and ICSU)

Co-Chair, U.S. GOOS Steering Committee 1997-present (NOAA, ONR, NSF, NASA, EPA)
OSTP (Heinz Center), Design a Report on the State of the Nation's Ecosystems, Member of Design Team and Chair, Coasts & Oceans Panel, 1999-present.

FIC Subcommittee on Coastal Oceanography, 1992-1993
UNOLS Advisory Council, Vice Chairman 1985-88

NSF Advisory Committee for Ocean Sciences, Executive Board, 1992-1993;
NSF Strategic Planning Workshop in Biological Oceanography (OEUVRE), 1998

NOAA, Coastal Ocean Program Science Advisory Committee, 1991-93
NOAA, National Estuarine Eutrophication Assessment Team, 1996-2000
NOAA, New York Bight National Undersea Research Program Advisory Board, 1993-present

NAS Council on Ocean Affairs 1989-1991
NRC Committee on Science & Technology in Transition, 1993-94
NAS, U.S. Delegation to Croatia and Slovenia, 1993
OSB, Chair, Committee on the Assessment of Regional Marine Research Programs, 1999-2000.

National Association of Marine Laboratories (NAML), Executive Board, 1995-1999

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