Dr. Peter G. Verity

Education:

1975 A.B. Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in Biology
1978 M.S. University of Rhode Island, in Biological Oceanography
1984 Ph.D. University of Rhode Island, in Biological Oceanography

Experience:

06/76 - 06/84	Research Assistant and Laboratory Instructor, University of Rhode Island
09/82 05/83	Instructor, General Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
06/84 - 03/86	Assistant Marine Scientist, University of Rhode Island
03/86 - 06/90	Assistant Professor, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
02/89 - Present	Adjunct Professor and Graduate Faculty, University of Georgia
06/90 - 06/95	Associate Professor, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
07/95 Present	Professor, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
03/97 - Present	Adjunct Professor and Graduate Faculty, Georgia Institute of Technology
11/02 - Present	Adjunct Professor and Graduate Faculty, Savannah State University
02/03 - Present	Adjunct Professor and Graduate Faculty, Armstrong Atlantic State Univ.

Professional Societies:

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
Phycological Society of America (PSA)
Society of Protozoologists
The Oceanographic Society
Society for Imaging Science and Technology
International Society for Analytical Cytometry

Special Training:

Individual Particle Analysis/Flow Cytometry Workshop, 1986
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (six week training), 1992
Fluorescent Probes, Flow and Imaging Cytometry Workshop, 1994

Awards and Honors:

Willard W. Eggleston Memorial Botany Prize, 1974 1975

Graduate with Highest Distinction in Biology, Dartmouth College, 1975

Invited participant in PRO MARE (Norwegian Research Program for Marine Arctic Ecology),
1985 1988.

Invited participant, Phaeocystis Symposium, Texel, Holland, 1986

Invited participant, Zooplankton Behavior Symposium, Savannah, GA, 1987

Selected by Chesapeake Research Consortium to author review of pelagic trophic
structure in estuaries

Plenary session chairman, Understanding The Estuary: Advances in Chesapeake Bay Research,
Baltimore, MD, March 1988

Invited Participant, Lake Arrowhead Zooplankton Colloquium, CA, April 1988

Invited Participant, Role of Zooplankton in Carbon Flow Workshop, Bergen, Norway, June 1988

Invited Participant, NATO ASI: Protozoa and their Role in Marine Processes, Plymouth, England,
July 1988

Guest Lecturer, The Coupling between Biological and Physical Processes in the Water Column,
Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1989

Invited Symposium Speaker, VIII International Congress of Protozoology, Tsukuba,
Japan, July 1989

Invited Participant, Symposium on Polar Marine Ecology, Trondheim, Norway, May 1990

Opponent for Ph.D. thesis of Peter Tiselius, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
Goteburg, Sweden, May 1990

Keynote Speaker, Society of Protozoologists Symposium on Food Chains and Food Webs,
June 1990, College Park, Maryland

Keynote Speaker and Rapporteur, European Community Workshop on the Ecology of
Phaeocystis-Dominated Ecosystems, Brussels, Belgium, January 1991

Invited Participant, The Trophic Fate of Phaeocystis, Workshop, Tromso, Norway, June 1992

Instructor and Co organizer, Introduction to Flow and Imaging Cytometry for the Aquatic
Sciences, Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, ME, September 1993

Keynote Speaker, Plankton Reactivity in the Marine Environment, Science Planning Meeting,
Manchester, England, November 1993

Keynote Speaker, ICES Symposium on Zooplankton Production, Plymouth, England,
August 1994

Instructor, Food Web Structure and Dynamics in Marine Terrestrial, and Freshwater
Environments, Four Week Workshop, Cornell University, June 1995

Keynote Speaker and Instructor, Marine Flow Cytometry: EC MAST Advanced Study Course,
Plymouth, England, July 1995

Keynote Speaker, Symposium: 150 Years of Marine Science in Germany, Biologische
Anstalt Helgoland, Hamburg, Germany, June 1996

Keynote Speaker, Benguela Ecology Program Symposium, Capetown, South Africa, November 1996

Guest Speaker, Public Lecture Series, The Oceans: Society and Science, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, June 1998

Lecturer, Concepts and Models of Marine Microbial Food Webs, Mols, Denmark, October 1998

Invited Speaker, The Role of Phaeocystis in Marine Biogeochemical Cycles and Fluxes, Univ.of
Groningen, The Netherlands, August 1999

Invited Participant, EISENEX iron fertilization experiment, Southern Ocean, October-December 2000
Opponent for Ph.D. thesis of Louis Peperzak, University of Groningen, Groningen, The
Netherlands, April 2002

Keynote Speaker, 5th International Conference on Environmental Future, Zurich, March 2003

Keynote Speaker, Symposium on Phaeocystis, Major Link in the Biogeochemical Cycling of Climate-
Relevant Elements, Groningen, The Netherlands, August 2005

Opponent for Ph.D. thesis of Anne-Carlijn Alderkamp, University of Groningen, Groningen, The
Netherlands, May 2006

Guest Speaker, Impacts of humans and human activities on water quality and estuarine ecosystems
in Georgia. USDA National Water Conference, Savannah, GA, January 2007.

Service to Contracting Agencies and Professional Organizations:

Reviewer of National Science Foundation, DOE, NOAA, NASA, EPA, NIH, Hudson River Foundation,
European Union, and Sea Grant proposals, 1982 present

Reviewer of manuscripts for the following journals: Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Marine Biology, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Journal of Plankton Research, Limnology and Oceanography, Journal of Phycology, Bulletin of Marine Science, Sarsia, Marine Environmental Research, Polar Biology, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Journal of Geophysical Research, Dana, Deep Sea Research, Journal of Marine Research, Journal of Marine Systems, Estuaries and Coasts

Associate/Contributing Editor: Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Limnology and Oceanography, Marine Ecology Progress Series

Guest Editor for special issues of Deep-Sea Research, Biogeochemistry

Member, ASLO Nominations Committee (1995-1997), Summer Meeting Arrangements Committee (2004)

Member, SCOR WG105: Zooplankton and Primary Production

Steering Committee, Ocean Margins Program, US Department of Energy (1992-1998)

Steering Committee, SCOR WG120: Marine Phytoplankton and Global Climate Regulation: The
Phaeocystis Species Cluster as Model (2001-2005)

Regular Panelist for NSF, DOE, NASA, CALFED program reviews

Member-at-Large, Southeastern Estuarine Research Society (2006- )

Chair, Scientific Technical Advisory Committee, State of Georgia Coastal Comprehensive Plan

Courses Taught or Co-taught (Recent and Current):

Coastal Oceanography, Skidaway Institute intensive summer course
Introduction to Oceanography (OCEA 3100), Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU)
Introduction to Coastal Oceanography (MSCI 5202), Savannah State University
The Darwinian Revolution (HONORS 2003), AASU
Biocomplexity In The Marine Environment (ECOL 8000), University of Georgia
The History and Science of Environmental Change (HONORS 2007), AASU
Ossabaw and Other Georgia Barrier Islands as Natural Learning Communities (A course to be
taught at AASU and in the field to in-service science teachers, June 2007)

Publications:

1975	Verity, P. G. and H. T. Croasdale. Key to the algae of selected aquatic systems in the Upper Valley, New Hampshire. 101 pp., 415 figures (used as text and lab manual for Phycology Course at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire).

1981	Durbin, A. G., E. G. Durbin, P. G. Verity and T. J. Smayda. Voluntary swimming speeds and respiration rates of a filter feeding planktivore, the Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus (Pisces: Clupeidae). Fish. Bull. 78: 877 886.

1981	Verity, P. G. Effects of temperature, irradiance, and daylength on the marine diatom eptocylindrus danicus Cleve. I. Photosynthesis and cellular composition. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 55 : 79-91.

1981	Verity, P. G. Effects of temperature, irradiance, and daylength on the marine diatom Leptocylindrus danicus Cleve. II. Excretion. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 55 : 159-169.

1981	Verity, P. G. Effects of temperature, irradiance, and daylength on the marine diatom Leptocylindrus danicus Cleve. III. Dark respiration. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 60 : 197-207.

1981	Verity, P. G. Effects of temperature, irradiance, and daylength on the marine diatom Leptocylindrus danicus Cleve. IV. Growth. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 60 : 209-222.

1982	Verity, P. G. and D. Stoecker. Effects of Olisthodiscus luteus on the growth and abundance of tintinnids. Mar. Biol. 72 : 79-87.

1983	Swift, E., W. H. Biggley, P. G. Verity and D. T. Brown. Zooplankton are major sources of epipelagic bioluminescence in the southern Sargasso Sea . Bull. Mar. Sci. 33 : 855-863.

1983	Durbin, A. G., E. G. Durbin, T. J. Smayda and P. G. Verity. Age, size, growth, and chemical composition of Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus , from Narragansett Bay , Rhode Island . Fish. Bull. 81 : 133-141.

1983	Durbin, E. G., A. G. Durbin, T. J. Smayda and P. G. Verity. Food limitation of production by adult Acartia tonsa in Narragansett Bay , Rhode Island . Limnol. Oceanogr. 28 : 1199-1213.

1984	Verity, P. G. and C. Langdon. Relationships between lorica volume, carbon, nitrogen and ATP content of tintinnids in Narraganset Bay . J. Plankton Res. 6 : 859-868.

1985	Verity, P. G. NH 4 excretion rates of oceanic copepods and implications for estimates of primary production in the Sargasso Sea . Biol. Oceanogr. 3 : 249-283.

1985	Verity, P. G. Grazing, respiration, excretion and growth rates of tintinnids in laboratory culture. Limnol. Oceanogr. 30 : 1268-1282.

1986	Verity, P. G. and T. Villareal. The relative food value of diatoms, dinoflagellates, flagellates and cyanobacteria for tintinnid ciliates. Archiv. Protistenkunde 131 : 71-84.

1986	Verity, P. G. Grazing of phototrophic nanoplankton by microzooplankton in Narragansett Bay . Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 29 : 105-115.

1986	Verity, P. G. Growth rates of natural tintinnid populations in Narragansett Bay . Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 29 : 117-126.

1987	Verity, P. G. Abundance, species composition, size distribution and production rates of tintinnids in Narragansett Bay , Rhode Island . Est. Coastal Shelf Sci. 24 : 671-690.

1987	Stoecker, D. K., P. G. Verity, A. E. Michaels and L. H. Davis. Feeding by larval and post-larval ctenophores on microzooplankton. J. Plankton Res. 9 : 667-683.

1987	Verity, P. G. Factors driving changes in the pelagic trophic structure of estuaries, with implications for Chesapeake Bay . In: Perspectives on the Chesapeake Bay : Recent Advances in Estuarine Sciences. Lynch, M. P. and E. C. Krome (eds.). Chesapeake Research Consortium, Publ. No. 127 : 35-56.

1988	Verity, P. G. Chemosensory behavior in marine planktonic ciliates. Bull. Mar. Sci. 43 : 772-782.

1988	Verity, P. G., T. A. Villareal and T. J. Smayda. Ecological investigations of blooms of colonial Phaeocystis pouchetii . I. Abundance, biochemical composition, and metabolic rates. J. Plankton Res. 10 : 219-248.

1988	Verity, P. G., T A. Villareal and T. J. Smayda. Ecological investigations of blooms of colonial Phaeocystis pouchetii . II. The role of life cycle phenomena in bloom termination. J. Plankton Res. 10 : 749-766.

1988	Verity, P. G. The trophic structure of pelagic communities: hypotheses and problems. Proceedings of the Conference "Understanding the Estuary" (29-31 March 1988), CRC Publ. 129, ed. by M. P. Lynch and E. C. Krome, pp. 49-54.

1989	Verity, P. G. and T. J. Smayda. Nutritional value of Phaeocystis pouchetii (Prymnesiophyceae) and other phytoplankton for Acartia spp. (Copepoda): ingestion, egg production, and growth of nauplii. Marine Biology 100 : 161-171.

1990	Hanson, R. B., C. Y. Robertson, J. A. Yoder, P. G. Verity and S. S. Bishop. Nitrogen recycling in coastal waters of southeastern U.S. during summer 1986. J. Mar. Res. 48 : 641-660.

1991	Verity, P. G. Aggregation patterns of ciliates from natural assemblages in response to different prey. Mar. Microb. Food Webs 5 : 115-128.

1991	Verity, P. G. Feeding in planktonic protozoans: evidence for non-random acquisition of prey. J. Protozool. 38 : 69-76.

1991	Verity, P. G. Measurement and simulation of prey uptake by marine planktonic ciliates fed plastidic and aplastidic nanoplankton. Limnol. Oceanogr. 36 : 729-750.

1991	Verity, P. G., T. J. Smayda, and E. Sakshaug. Photosynthesis, excretion, and growth rates of Phaeocystis colonies and solitary cells. In: Sakshaug, E., Hopkins, C.C.E. & Øritsland, N.A. (eds.): Proceedings of the Pro Mare Symposium on Polar Marine Ecology, Trondheim , 12-16 May 1990. Polar Research 10(1), pp. 117-128.

1992	Verity, P. G., C. Y. Robertson, C. R. Tronzo, M. G. Andrews, J. R. Nelson and M. E. Sieracki. Relationships between cell volume and the carbon and nitrogen content of marine photosynthetic nanoplankton. Limnol. Oceanogr. 37 : 1434-1446.

1992	Verity, P. G. and M. Vernet. Microzooplankton grazing, pigments, and composition of plankton communities during late spring in two Norwegian fjords. Sarsia 77 : 263-274.

1993	Sieracki , M.E. , P.G. Verity, and D.K. Stoecker. Plankton community response to sequential silicate and nitrate depletion during the 1989 North Atlantic spring bloom. Deep-Sea Res. II 40 : 213-225.

1993	Verity, P. G., D. K. Stoecker, M. E. Sieracki, P. H. Burkill, E. S. Edwards, and C. R. Tronzo. Abundance, biomass, and distribution of heterotrophic dinoflagellates during the North Atlantic spring bloom. Deep-Sea Res. II 40 : 227-244.

1993	Yoder, J. A., P. G. Verity, S. S. Bishop, and F. E. Hoge. Phytoplankton Chl a , primary production, and nutrient distributions across a coastal frontal zone off Georgia, U.S.A. Cont. Shelf Res. 13 : 131-141.

1993	Verity, P. G., J. A. Yoder, S. S. Bishop, J. R. Nelson, D. B. Craven, J. O. Blanton, C. Y. Robertson, and C. R. Tronzo. Composition, productivity and nutrient chemistry of a coastal ocean planktonic food web. Cont. Shelf Res. 13 : 741-776.

1993	Burkill, P.H., E.S. Edwards, M. Landry, M. Paranjape, M. Reckermann, M.E. Sieracki, M.A. Sleigh, D.K. Stoecker, and P.G. Verity. Microzooplankton herbivory. In: Revised JGOFS Protocols, H.W. Ducklow (ed.), Internat. Oceanogr. Comm., Paris , pp. 185-191.

1993	Pomeroy, L. R., J.O. Blanton, G.-A. Paffenhöfer, K.L. Von Damm, P. G. Verity, and H.L. Windom. Chapter 2: Inner Shelf Processes. In : Menzel, D.W., ed., "Ocean Processes: U.S. Southeast Continental Shelf." Washington , D.C. , U.S. Department of Energy, pp. 9-43.

1993	Verity, P. G., T.N. Lee, J.A. Yoder, G.-A. Paffenhöfer, J.O. Blanton and C.R. Alexander. Chapter 3: Outer Shelf Processes. In : Menzel, D.W., ed., "Ocean Processes: U.S. Southeast Continental Shelf." Washington , D.C. , U.S. Department of Energy, pp. 45-74.

1993	Windom, H. L., J.O. Blanton, P. G. Verity, and R.A. Jahnke. Chapter 4: Oceanographic responses to environmental change, etc. In : Menzel, D.W., ed., "Ocean Processes: U.S. Southeast Continental Shelf." Washington , D.C. , U.S. Department of Energy, pp. 75-91.

1993	Verity, P. G. and M. E. Sieracki. Use of color image analysis and epifluorescence microscopy to measure plankton biomass. In : Handbook of Methods in Aquatic Microbial Ecology, (P. F. Kemp, B. F. Sherr, E. B. Sherr, and J.J. Cole, eds.), pp. 327-338.

1993	Saiz, E., P. Tiselius, P. R. Jonsson, P. Verity and G.-A. Paffenhöfer. Experimental records of the effects of food patchiness and predation on egg production of Acartia tonsa . Limnol. Oceanogr. 38 : 280-289.

1993	Verity, P. G., D. K. Stoecker, M. E. Sieracki, and J. R. Nelson. Grazing, growth and mortality of microzooplankton during the 1989 North Atlantic spring bloom at 47 N, 18 W. Deep-Sea Research 40 : 1793-1814.

1993	Tiselius, P., P. R. Jonsson, and P. G. Verity. A model evaluation of the impact of food patchiness on foraging strategy and predation risk in zooplankton. Bull. Marine Science 53 : 247-264.

1994	Weisse, T., K. Tande, P. Verity, F. Hansen and W. Gieskes. The trophic significance of Phaeocystis blooms. Journal of Marine Systems 5 : 67-79.

1994	Hansen, B., P. Verity, T. Falkenhaug, K. S. Tande and F. Norrbin. On the trophic fate of Phaeocystis pouchetii (Harriot). V. Trophic relationships between Phaeocystis and zooplankton: an assessment of methods and size dependence. J. Plankton Res. 16 : 487-511.

1994	Stoecker, D. K., M. E. Sieracki, P. G. Verity, A. E. Michaels, E. Haugen, P. H. Burkill, and E. S. Edwards. Nanoplankton and protozoan microzooplankton during the JGOFS North Atlantic bloom experiment: 1989 and 1990. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 74 : 427-443.

1995	Paffenhöfer, G.-A., L. P. Atkinson, T. N. Lee, P. G. Verity, and L. R. Bulluck III. Distribution and abundance of thaliaceans and copepods off the southeastern USA during winter. Cont. Shelf Res. 15 : 255-280.

1995	Williams, S.C., P.G. Verity, and T. Beatty. A new staining technique for dual identification of plankton and detritus in seawater. J. Plankton Res. 17 : 2037-2047.

1996	Verity, P.G., G.-A. Paffenhöfer, D. Wallace, E. Sherr, and B. Sherr. Composition and biomass of plankton in spring on the Cape Hatteras shelf, with implications for carbon flux. Cont. Shelf Res. 16 : 1087-1116.

1996	Verity, P.G. and V. Smetacek. Organism life cycles, predation, and the structure of marine pelagic ecosystems. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 130 : 277-293.

1996	Verity, P.G., T.M. Beatty, and S.C. Williams. Visualization and quantification of plankton and detritus using digital confocal microscopy. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 10 : 55-67.

1996	Stoecker, D.K., D.E. Gustafson, P.G. Verity, and M.E. Sieracki. Micro- and mesoprotozooplankton at 140°W in the equatorial Pacific: heterotrophs and mixotrophs. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 10 : 273-282.

1996	Verity, P.G., D.K. Stoecker , M.E. Sieracki, and J.R. Nelson. Microzooplankton grazing of primary production at 140°W in the equatorial Pacific. Deep-Sea Res. II. 43 : 1227-1255.

1996	Verity, P.G. and G.-A. Paffenhöfer. On assessment of prey ingestion by copepods. J. Plankton Res. 18 : 1767-1779.

1997	Landry, M.R., P.G. Verity, and 11 others. Iron and grazing constraints on primary production in the central equatorial Pacific: an EqPac synthesis. Limnol. Oceanogr. 42 : 405-418.

1998	Fletcher, M., P. G. Verity, M. E. Frischer, K. A. Maruya and G. I. Scott. 1998. Microbial Indicators and Phytoplankton and Bacterial Indicators as Evidence of Contamination Caused by Changing Land Use Patterns. LU-CES State of Knowledge Report, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, Charleston , South Carolina .

1998	Williams, S.C., Y. Hong, D.C.A. Danavall, M.H. Howard-Jones, D. Gibson, M.E. Frischer, and P.G. Verity. Distinguishing between living and nonliving bacteria: evaluation of a combined molecular probe and vital staining procedure. J. Microb. Methods 32 : 225-236.

1998	Verity, P.G. Why is relating plankton community structure to pelagic production so problematic? South African Journal of Marine Science 19 : 333-338.

1998	Verity, P.G., J.O. Blanton, J. Amft, C. Barans, D. Knott, B. Stender, and E. Wenner. Influences of physical oceanographic processes on chlorophyll and particle distributions in coastal and estuarine waters of the South Atlantic Bight. J. Mar. Res. 56 : 681-711.

1998	Haskell, A.G.E., E.E. Hofmann, G.-A. Paffenhofer and P.G. Verity. Modeling the effects of doliolids on the plankton community structure of the southeastern U.S. continental shelf. J. Plankton Res. 21 : 1725-1752.

1999	Ratkova, T.N., P. Wassmann, P.G. Verity and I.J. Andreassen. Abundance and biomass of pico-, nano-, and microplankton on a transect across Nordwestbanken, north Norwegian shelf, in 1994. Sarsia 84 : 213-225.

1999	Verity, P.G., P. Wassmann, T.N. Ratkova, I.J. Andreassen and E. Nordby. Seasonal patterns in composition and biomass of autotrophic and heterotrophic nano- and microplankton communities on the north Norwegian shelf. Sarsia 84 : 265-277.

2000	Shopov, A., S.C. Williams, and P.G. Verity. Image analysis to discriminate and enumerate bacteria and viruses in aquatic samples. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 22 : 103-110.

2000	Archer , S.D. , P.G. Verity, and J. Stefels. The impact of microzooplankton on the progression and fate of the spring bloom in north Norwegian fjords. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 22 : 27-41.

2000	Verity, P.G., S.C. Williams, and Y. Hong. Formation, degradation, and mass:volume ratios of detritus derived from decaying phytoplankton. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 207 : 53-68.

2000	Verity, P.G. Grazing experiments and modeling simulations of the role of zooplankton in Phaeocystis food webs. J. Sea Res. 43 : 317-343.

2001	Howard-Jones, M.H., M.E. Frischer, and P.G. Verity. Determining the physiological status of individual bacteria cells. In: Methods in Marine Microbiology, J.H. Paul (ed.), Academic Press, pp. 175-206.

2001	Allen, A.E., M.G. Booth, M.E. Frischer, P.G. Verity, J.P. Zehr, and S. Zani. Diversity and detection of nitrate assimilation genes in marine bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67 : 5343-5348.

2002	Verity, P.G., M.R. Gilligan , M.E. Frischer, M.G. Booth, J.P. Richardson, and C. Franklin. Improving undergraduate research experiences. Lessons from a historically black university's unusual collaboration. AAHE Bulletin 54 (6): 3-6.

2002	Verity, P.G., V. Smetacek, and T.J. Smayda. Status, trends, and the future of the marine pelagic ecosystem. Environmental Conservation 29 (2): 207-237.

2002	Smetacek, V., M. Montresor, and P.G. Verity. Marine productivity: footprints of the past and steps into the future. In: Phytoplankton Productivity, (P.J.LeB. Williams, D.N. Thomas, C.S. Reynolds, eds.), Blackwell Science, pp. 350-369.

2002	Verity, P.G. A decade of change in the Skidaway River estuary. I. Hydrography and nutrients. Estuaries 25 : 944-960.

2002	Verity, P.G. A decade of change in the Skidaway River estuary. II. Particulate organic carbon, nitrogen, and chlorophyll a . Estuaries 25 : 961-975.

2002	Verity, P.G., P. Wassmann, M.E. Frischer, M.H. Howard-Jones, and A.E. Allen. Grazing of primary production by microzooplankton in the Barents Sea during early summer. J. Mar. Syst. 38 : 109-123.

2002	Allen, A.E., M.H. Howard-Jones, M.G. Booth, M.E. Frischer, P.G. Verity, D.A. Bronk, and M.P. Sanderson. Importance of heterotrophic bacterial assimilation of ammonium and nitrate in the Barents Sea during summer. J. Mar. Syst. 38 : 93-108.

2002	Lohrenz, S.E., D.G. Redalje, P.G. Verity, and C.N. Flagg and K.V. Matulweski. Primary production on the continental shelf off Cape Hatteras , NC . Deep-Sea Res. II 49 : 4479-4509.

2002	Redalje, D.G., S.E. Lohrenz, P.G. Verity, and C.N. Flagg. Phytoplankton dynamics within a discrete water mass off Cape Hatteras , North Carolina : the Lagrangian experiment. Deep-Sea Res. II 49 : 2511-2531.

2002	Verity, P.G., D.G. Redalje, S.E. Lohrenz, C.N. Flagg, and R. Hristov. Coupling between primary production and consumption in temperate ocean margin pelagic ecosystems. Deep-Sea Res. II 49 : 4553-4569.

2002	Verity, P.G., J.E. Bauer, C.N. Flagg, D.J. DeMaster, and D.F. Repeta. The Ocean Margins Program: an interdisciplinary study of carbon sources, transformations, and sinks in a temperate continental margin system. Deep-Sea Res. II 49 : 4273-4295.

2002	Sherr, E.B., B.F. Sherr, and P.G. Verity. Distribution and relation of total bacteria, active bacteria, bacterivory, and organic detritus in Atlantic continental shelf waters off Cape Hatteras , NC , USA . Deep-Sea Res. II 49 : 4571-4585.

2002	Howard-Jones, M.H., V.D. Ballard, A.E. Allen , M.E. Frischer, and P.G. Verity. Distribution of bacterial activity in the marginal ice zone of the central Barents Sea during summer. J. Mar. Syst. 38 : 77-91.

2003	Verity, P.G. and L.K. Medlin. Observations on colony formation by the cosmopolitan phytoplankton genus Phaeocystis . J. Mar. Syst 43 : 153-164.

2003	Nejstgaard, J.C., M.E. Frischer, C.L. Raule, R. Gruebel, K.E. Kohlberg, and P.G. Verity. Molecular detection of algal prey in copepod guts and fecal pellets. Limnol. Oceanogr. Methods 1 : 29-38.

2005	Lohrenz, S. E., and P. G. Verity. Chapter 6, Regional Oceanography: Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico (2,W), in The Sea, Vol. 14A, The Global Coastal Ocean: Interdisciplinary Regional Studies And Syntheses, edited by A. R. Robinson and K. H. Brink, pp. 169-223, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.

2005	Allen, A.E., M.G. Booth, P.G. Verity, and M.E. Frischer. Influence of nitrate availability on the distribution and abundance of heterotrophic bacterial nitrate assimilation genes in the Barents Sea during summer. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 39 : 247-255.

2005	Whipple, S.J., S. Borrett, B.C. Patten, and P.G. Verity. Colony growth and evidence for colony multiplication in Phaeocystis pouchetii (Prymnesiophyceae) isolated from mesocosm blooms. J. Plankton Res. 27 : 495-501.

2005	Whipple, S.J., B.P. Patten, and P.G. Verity. Life cycle of the marine alga Phaeocystis : a conceptual model to summarize literature and guide research. J. Mar. Syst. 57 : 83-110.

2006	Alderkamp, A.-C., J.C. Nejstgaard, P.G. Verity, M.J. Zirbel, A.F. Sazhin, and M. van Rijssel. Dynamics in carbohydrate composition of Phaeocystis pouchetii colonies during spring blooms in mesocosms. J. Sea Research 55 : 169-181.

2006	Verity, P.G., J. Hobe, and M.S. Cosgrove. Collaboration to prepare early childhood education teacher candidates for science teaching. Mastery Learning and the Teaching of Reading_ 24 (1): 1-3.

2006	Verity, P.G., M.L. Alber, and S. B. Bricker. Development of hypoxia in well-mixed estuaries in the southeastern USA . Estuaries and Coasts 29 : 665-673.

2006	Frischer, M.E. and P.G. Verity. Alternatives to coliform bacteria as indicators of human impact on coastal ecosystems. In : Changing Land Use Patterns in the Coastal Zone: Managing Environmental Quality in Rapidly Developing Regions. Kleppel, G.S., M.R. DeVoe, and M.V. Rawson (eds), Springer. Ch. 11, pp. 253-284.

2006	Nejstgaard, J.C., M.E. Frischer, P.G. Verity, J.T. Anderson, A. Jacobsen, M.J. Zirbel, A. Larsen, J. Martinez, A.F. Sazhin, T. Walters, D.A. Bronk, S.J. Whipple, S. Borrett, B.C Patten, and J.D. Long . Plankton development and trophic transfer in seawater enclosures with added nutrients and Phaeocystis . Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 321: 99-121.

2006	Schultes, S, PG Verity, and U Bathmann. Biogeochemical relevance of copepod grazing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC): I. Feeding patterns before and during an iron-induced diatom bloom and their impact on prey populations . J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 338: 16-34.

2007	Henjes, J., P. Assmy, C. Klaas, P. Verity, and V. Smetacek. Response of microzooplankton (protists and small copepods) to an iron induced phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocean (EisenEx). Deep-Sea Res. I 54: 363-384.

2007	Verity, P.G., Zirbel, M.J., and Nejstgaard, J . C . Formation of very young colonies of Phaeocystis pouchetii from western Norway . Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 47: 267-274 .

2007	Verity, P.G., S.J. Whipple, J.C. Nejstgaard, and A.-C. Alderkamp. Colony size, cell number, carbon and nitrogen contents of Phaeocystis pouchetii from western Norway. J. Plankton Res. 29: 359-367.

2007	Verity, P.G., C.P. Brussaard, J.C. Nejstgaard, M. van Leeuwe, C. Lancelot, and L.K. Medlin. Current understanding of Phaeocystis ecology and biogeochemistry, and perspectives for future research. Biogeochemistry 83: 311-330.

2007	Van Rijssel, M., A-C Alderkamp, J. Nejstgaard, A. Sazhin, and P. Verity. Haemolytic activity of living Phaeocystis pouchetii during mesocosm blooms. Biogeochemistry 83: 189-200.

2007	Rousseau V, Chrétiennot-Dinet M-J, Jacobsen A, Verity P, and Whipple S. The life cycle of Phaeocystis : state of knowledge and presumptive role in ecology. Biogeochemistry 83: 29-47.

2007	Whipple, S.W., B.C. Patten, P.G. Verity, J.C. Nejstgaard, J.D. Long, J.T. Anderson, A. Jacobsen, A. Larsen, J. Martinez-Martinez, and S.R. Borrett. Gaining integrated understanding of Phaeocystis spp. (Prymnesiophyceae) through model-driven laboratory and mesocosm studies. Biogeochemistry 83: 293-309.

2007	Jacobsen, A., A. Larsen, J. Martinez-Martinez , M.E. Frischer, and P.G. Verity. Are colonies or colonial cells of Phaeocystis pouchetii (Haptophyta) susceptible to virus infection? Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 48: 105-112.

2008	Gilligan, M.R., P.G. Verity, C.B. Cook, S.B. Cook, M.G. Booth, and M.E. Frischer. Building a diverse and innovative ocean workforce through collaboration and partnerships that integrate research and education: HBCUs and marine laboratories. J. Geosci. Edu. (In Press).

2008	Klaas, C., P.G. Verity, and S. Schultes. Determination of copepod grazing on natural plankton communities: correcting for trophic-cascade effects. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. (In Press).

2008	Verity, P.G., J. Steele, T. Frede Thingstad, F. Rassoulzadegan. The Marine Pelagic Ecosystem: Perspectives on Humanity's Role in the Future. In: Aquatic Ecosystems, Chapter 20, N.V.C. Polunin (ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 311-318 (in press, publ. exp. 7/08).

2008	Sanderson M.P., D.A. Bronk, J.C. Nejstgaard, P.G. Verity, A.F. Sazhin, and M.E. Frischer. Phytoplankton and bacterial uptake of inorganic and organic nitrogen during an induced bloom of Phaeocystis pouchetii (Accepted).

	Schultes, S, C Klaas, PG Verity, and U Bathmann. Biogeochemical relevance of copepod grazing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC): II. Comparison of ingestion estimates from gut fluorescence and in vitro incubations with respiratory carbon demand. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. (Accepted).

	Long, J.D., J.T. Anderson, J.C. Nejstgaard, P.G. Verity, and M.E. Hay. Allelopathy of a bloom-forming marine phytoplankton: Phaeocystis in mesocosm blooms and laboratory cultures. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. (Subm).


Manuscripts in Preparation :

	Frischer, M.E., Y. Hong , S.C. Williams, M. Howard-Jones and P.G. Verity. VSP identification of dead but recently active cells. Microbial Ecology (In review)

	Lee, M.H., Frischer, M.E., and Verity, P.G. Development of a modified vital stain and probe method (mVSP) to determine the physiological status of individual bacterial cells (In prep).

	Verity, P.G. A decade of change in the Skidaway River estuary. III. Plankton. Estuaries (In prep).

	Nejstgaard JC, Sazhin A, Verity PG, Long J, Anderson JT, Zirbel MJ, and van Rijssel M. Reciprocal effects between zooplankton predation and blooms of Phaeocystis pouchetii in mesocosms. (In prep.).


Lectures and Presented Papers:

1978	Relationship between 14 C photosynthesis, dark respiration and division rate in the marine diatom Leptocylindrus danicus . American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), Victoria , BC , June 1978. (with T. J. Smayda).

1979	Photosynthetic properties of the deep chlorophyll layer. ASLO, Stony Brook , New York , June 1979. (with G. L. Hitchcock).

1980	Zooplankton as important sources of diffuse bioluminescence in the ocean. ASLO, Seattle , Washington , December 1980. (with E. Swift, W. H. Biggley and D. Brown).

1981	The effects of Olisthodiscus luteus on the growth of tintinnids. Northeast Algal Symposium, Woods Hole, Massachusetts , April 1981. (with D. Stoecker, T. J. Smayda and R. R. L. Guillard).

1982	The role of tintinnids in coastal marine food webs. University of Rhode Island , April 1982.

1982	NH4 excretion rates of oceanic copepods. ASLO, Raleigh , North Carolina , June 1982.

1983	Effects of food quantity and quality on the abundance and in situ growth rates of tintinnids in Narragansett Bay , Rhode Island . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, January 1983.

1983	The role of bioluminescent zooplankton in the Sargasso Sea and the Gulf Stream . ASLO, St. John's , Newfoundland , June 1983. (with E. Swift and T. A. Napora).

1983	Effects of temperature and food availability on in situ growth rates of natural populations of tintinnids in Narragansett Bay , Rhode Island . ASLO, St. John's , Newfoundland , June 1983.

1984	Chlorophyll a production by <5µm and <10µm nanoplankton and grazing by natural microzooplankton communities in Narragansett Bay , Rhode Island . ASLO, Vancouver , B.C., June 1984.

1985	Phaeocystis pouchetii dynamics in enclosed mesocosms. Pro Mare Workshop, Tromso , Norway , May 1985.

1985	Studies on the role of ciliate microzooplankton in marine foods webs: food preferences, grazing and growth rates of cultured and natural populations. Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, August 1985.

1985	Food preferences and metabolic rates of natural tintinnid populations in Narragansett Bay . Southeastern Massachusetts University , Dartmouth , MA , November 1985.

1986	Temperature and nutrient regulation of Phaeocystis growth. Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands , March 1986.

1986	Dynamics of Phaeocystis in enclosed mesocosms: nutrient-limited and nutrient replete populations. ASLO, Kingston , Rhode Island , June 1986. (With T. J. Smayda and T. A. Villareal).

1986	Grazing by Acartia and other crustacean zooplankton on Phaeocystis . ASLO, Kingston , Rhode Island , June 1986. (With P. W. Foffonoff and T. J. Smayda).

1986	Abundance, distribution, and productivity of phytoplankton and phagotrophic Protozoa in nearshore Georgia waters. American Geophysical Union meeting (AGU), San Francisco , CA , December 1986. (with J. A. Yoder and S. S. Bishop).

1987	Chemosensory behavior in marine planktonic ciliates. Zooplankton Behavior Symposium, Savannah , GA , April 1987.

1987	The role of food quantity and quality in regulating the grazing and production rates of planktonic ciliates. Horn Point Environmental Laboratories, Cambridge , MD , June 1987.

1988	Chemosensory behavior of cultured and natural ciliate populations. AGU, New Orleans , LA , January 1988.

1988	The trophic structure of pelagic communities: hypotheses and problems. Understanding the estuary, Baltimore , MD , March 1988.

1988	The role of food quantity and quality in the population dynamics of ciliates. PROMARE Workshop, Herdla , Norway , June 1988.

1988	How do protozoans recognize and select food particles? NATO Advanced Study Institute, Plymouth , England , August 1988.

1988	Food preferences, grazing, and growth rates of planktonic ciliates. NATO Advanced Study Institute, Plymouth , England , August 1988.

1988	Seasonal studies of production and mortality of planktonic protists in the coastal waters of Georgia . AGU, San Francisco , December 1988. (with D. B. Craven, J. R. Nelson, and S. S. Bishop).

1989	Chemosensory responses and particle selection in marine planktonic ciliates. University of Georgia , Athens , GA , January 1989.

1989	Chemosensory responses and particle selection in marine planktonic ciliates. University of Copenhagen , Denmark , June 1989.

1989	The impact of meteorological variability and a coastal salinity front on planktonic productivity in Georgia waters. University of Copenhagen , June 1989.

1989	Chemosensory responses and paticle selection in marine planktonic ciliates. VIII International Congress of Protozoology, Tsukuba , Japan , July 1989.

1989	Outer continental shelf: plankton dynamics and food webs. Minerals Management Service, Informational Transfer Meeting, Reston , VA , September 1989.

1990	The impact of grazing by microzooplankton on the North Atlantic Spring Bloom: initial results. AGU, New Orleans , January 1990 (with M. E. Sieracki and D. K. Stoecker).

1990	Photosynthesis, excretion, and growth rates of Phaeocystis pouchetii as a function of irradiance and temperature. Pro Mare Symposium, Trondheim , Norway , May 1990.

1990	Feeding by planktonic ciliates on and among plastidic and aplastidic nanoplankton. Kristineberg Marine Biological Station, Kristineberg , Sweden , May 1990.

1990	Feeding in planktonic protozoa: evidence for non-random food acquisition. Society of Protozoologists meeting, College Park , MD , June 1990.

1990	Dominance of heterotrophic dinoflagellate assemblage by < 20µm cells during the spring bloom in the North Atlantic . Free-Living Heterotrophic Flagellates International Meeting, Helsingor , Denmark , August 1990 (with D. K. Stoecker and M. E. Sieracki).

1990	The trophic role of nano- and microplankton during the 1989 North Atlantic spring bloom: bloom dynamics at 47N. JGOFS International Science Symposium, Washington , DC (with M. E. Sieracki, D. K. Stoecker, P. H. Burkill, and E. S. Edwards).

1990	The trophic role of nano- and microplankton during the 1989 North Atlantic spring bloom: latitudinal gradients at 47N. JGOFS International Science Symposium, Washington , DC (with M. E. Sieracki, D. K. Stoecker, P. H. Burkill, and E. S. Edwards).

1991	Overview of Phaeocystis development in areas other than the North Sea and Barents Sea . European Community Workshop on the Ecology of Phaeocystis -Dominated Ecosystems, Brussels , Belgium , January 1991.

1991	A model evaluation of simple foraging strategies. Zooplankton Ecology Symposium, Appleton , WI , August 1991 (with P.R. Jonsson and P. Tiselius).

1992	A model evaluation of the impact of prey distribution patterns on foraging strategy and predation risk in zooplankton. ASLO Santa Fe , Feb. 1992 (with P.R. Jonsson and P. Tiselius).

1993	The need to include microzooplankton in secondary production models. GLOBEC Secondary Production Modeling Workshop, Savannah , GA , Feb. 1993.

1993	Imaging cytometry and instrumentation. Introduction to Flow and Imaging Cytometry for the Aquatic Sciences, Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, Boothbay Harbor , ME , Sept. 1993

1993	Computer science and visualization in biological oceanography. Armstrong State College, Savannah , GA , October 1993.

1993	Biological regulation of plankton communities: the case for top-down control. Plankton Reactivity in the Marine Environment (Planning Meeting), Univ. of Bangor , Wales , Manchester , U.K. , November 1993.

1993	Pastures of the sea: the microscopic world of plankton. Marine Extension Service, Univ. of Georgia , December 1993.

1994	Microzooplankton grazing of primary production in the equatorial Pacific. AGU/ASLO San Diego , February 1994 (with D.K. Stoecker , M.E. Sieracki).

1994	Microzooplankton at 0N, 140 W during El Nino and non-El Nino conditions. AGU/ASLO, San Diego , February 1994 (with D.K. Stoecker, M.E. Sieracki, D.E. Gustafson).

1994	Oceanographic processes controlling larval ingress to an estuarine environment. AGU/ASLO San Diego , February 1994 (with J. O. Blanton, J. Amft, C. R. Barans and E. Wenner ).

1994	Feeding in protozoan zooplankton. Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Mombasa , Kenya , February 1994.

1994	Applications of image analysis to plankton ecology. Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Instiute, Mombasa , Kenya , February 1994.

1994	Do trophic cascades alter the structure of marine plankton communities? ICES Symposium on Zooplankton Production, Plymouth , England , August 1994.

1994	Patterns of carbon production and consumption within a continental shelf plankton community. ICES Symposium on Zooplankton Production, Plymouth , England , August 1994 (with G.-A. Paffenhöfer, E. B. Sherr, B. F. Sherr).

1994	Composition and biomass of plankton in spring on the Cape Hatteras shelf, with implications for carbon flux. SECOR Meeting, Seabrook SC , November 1994 (with G.-A. Paffenhöfer, D. Wallace, C. Wirick, E. Sherr , B. Sherr).

1994	Physical oceanographic influence on phytoplankton distributions in coastal waters of South Carolina . SECOR Meeting, Seabrook SC , November 1994 (with J. O. Blanton, J. Amft, and M. A. Ward).

1995	Applications of imaging cytometry to the study of plankton. University of Vienna , Austria , May 1995; University of Rostock ; Alfred-Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven , Germany , July 1995.

1995	A resource-based perspective on the structure of marine pelagic food webs. Food Web Structure Workshop, Cornell University , June 1995.

1995	Organism life cycles, predation, and the structure of marine pelagic food webs. Food Web Structure Workshop, Cornell University , June 1995.

1995	Particles in the ocean: components and processes. Marine Flow Cytometry Advanced Study Course, Plymouth , U.K. , July 1995.

1995	3D imaging cytometry. Marine Flow Cytometry Advanced Study Course, Plymouth , U.K. , July 1995.

1996	On quantification of feeding rates of zooplankton. AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego , February 1996 (with G.-A. Paffenhöfer).

1996	Distinguishing between metabolically active and inactive bacteria. AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego , February 1996 (with S.C. Williams and M.E. Frischer).

1996	Microzooplankton grazing of primary production at 140 W in the equatorial Pacific. AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego , February 1996 (with D.K. Stoecker , M.E. Sieracki, and J.R. Nelson).

1996	Some thoughts on future plankton research: the need for a global synthetic perspective. Symposium on 150 Years of Marine Science in Germany , Hamburg , Germany , June 1996.

1996	Productivity of estuaries: the pulsing paradigm and its implications for demographically-induced impacts on resources. Land Use-Coastal Ecosystem Study (LU-CES) Planning Workshop, Savannah , GA , June 1996.

1996	Why is relating plankton community structure to pelagic production so problematic? Benguela Ecology Program Symposium, Capetown , South Africa , November 1996.

1997	Distinguishing between living and nonliving bacteria: evaluation of a combined molecular probe and vital staining procedure. AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe , February 1997 (with S.C. Williams, Y. Hong, D.C.A. Danavall, M.H. Howard-Jones, D. Gibson, and M.E. Frischer).

1997	Composition and biomass of autotrophic and heterotrophic plankton communities on the Norwegian shelf. 32 nd European Marine Biology Symposium, Lysekil , Sweden , August 1997.

1998	Water column biology at Cape Hatteras . North Carolina Offshore Workshop, Raleigh , NC , February 1998.

1998	Modelling plankton community structure under different environmental forcing on the southeast U.S. continental shelf. AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego , February 1998 (with A.G.E. Haskell and G.-A. Paffenhöfer).

1998	Seasonal patterns in autotrophic and heterotrophic nano- and microplankton communities on the North Norwegian Shelf, and impact on vertical fluxes. AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego , February 1998.

1998	Phytoplankton size distributions and pigment-specific absorption in coastal waters off Cape Hatteras , NC . AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego , February 1998 (with S.E. Lohrenz, D.G. Redalje, and K.M. Matulewski).

1998	Active, inactive, and nonliving bacterioplankton in contrasting marine pelagic environments. Sixth European Marine Microbiology Symposium, Sitges , Spain , May 1998 (with M.E. Frischer, S.C. Williams, Y. Hong and D.C.A. Danavall).

1998	Continental shelf processes and links with the interior ocean. NASA Lecture Series, The Oceans: Society and Science, Greenbelt , Maryland , June 1998.

1998	The drama of life and death in the protistan world. A series of lectures in the EU Advanced Study Course, Concepts and Models of Marine Microbial Food Webs, Mols, Denmark, October 1998 (with V. Smetacek).

1998	Applications of math and computer science in marine biology. Computer Science Department, Armstrong Atlantic State University , Savannah , GA , October 1998.

1999	Digital imagery and 3-D reconstruction: a new look at marine food webs. Biology Department, Armstrong Atlantic State University , Savannah , GA , January 1999.

1999	Simultaneous use of vital stains and molecular probes to estimate the in situ physiological status of individual cells in diverse marine environments. ASLO 1999 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe , February 1999 (with M.E. Frischer, S.C. Williams, and Y. Hong).

1999	Distinguishing between living and non-living cells: development of a modified vital stain and probe method. ASLO 1999 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe , February 1999 (with M.H. Howard-Jones , M.E. Frischer, and S.C. Williams).

1999	Seasonal patterns in autotrophic and heterotrophic nano- and microplankton communities on the north Norwegian shelf, and impact on vertical fluxes. Plankton Ecology and Vertical Flux on Polar and Subpolar Shelves and Fjords of Norway and Spitsbergen, Tromso, Norway, April 1999 (with P. Wassmann).

1999	Shelf plankton food webs. Chesapeake Bay Modelling Workshop, Baltimore , MD , August 1999.

1999	The enigma that is Phaeocystis . Symposia on DMS(P) & Phaeocystis , University of Groningen , The Netherlands , August 1999.

1999	Expression and regulation of assimilatory nitrate reductase in heterotrophic bacteria by available nitrogen. 99 th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Chicago , June 1999 (with M.G. Booth, D.A. Bronk, A.E. Allen, and M.E. Frischer).

1999	Use of a combined vital stain and probe method to distinguish between metabolically active and inactive bacteria in the natural aquatic environments. 99 th General Meeting of the ASM, Chicago, June 1999 (with S.C. Williams, H. Alkaff, Y. Hong, L. Penill, A. Shopov, and M. Frischer).

1999	Use of the vital stain and probe method (VSP) to identify bacterial cells in the starvation state. 99 th General Meeting of the ASM, Chicago , June 1999 (with M.H. Howard-Jones , S.C. Williams, and M.E. Frischer).

1999	The nitrate assimilation capacity of heterotrophic bacterioplankton in the South Atlantic Bight as indicated by phylogenetic analysis of the assimilatory nitrate reductase gene. 99 th General Meeting of the ASM, Chicago, June 1999 (with A.E. Allen, M.E. Frischer, M.G. Booth, S. Zani, and J. Zehr).

1999	Custom software solutions for the discrimination and enumeration of bacteria and viruses in aquatic samples. 99 th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Chicago , June 1999 (with A. Shopov and S.C. Williams).

2000	Dead or alive: Improvements to the vital stain and probe method (VSP) for assessing the physiological status of individual bacteria cells. ASLO, Copenhagen , Denmark , June 2000 (with M.E. Frischer, M.H. Howard-Jones, and V.D. Ballard).

2000	The use of the vital stain and probe (VSP) method to determine the physiological activity of bacteria in the marine environment. ASLO, Copenhagen , Denmark , June 2000 (with V.D. Ballard, M.H. Howard-Jones , M.E. Frischer, and M.R. Gilligan).

2000	Comparison of rRNA content, membrane integrity, ETS activity, and amino acid incorporation in marine aquatic bacteria as indicators of metabolic activity. Southeastern Branch Meeting of the AMS, Statesboro, GA, August 2000 (with M.H. Howard-Jones, V.D. Ballard, R. Hristov, and M.E. Frischer).

2001	Development of the modified vital stain and probe method (MVSP) to examine membrane integrity and metabolic activity. ASLO, Albuquerque , NM . February 2001 (with V.D. Ballard, M.H. Howard-Jones , M.E. Frischer, and M.R. Gilligan).

2001	Distinguishing between living, non-living, and inactive cells in the marine environment. ASLO, Albuquerque , NM , February 2001 (with M.H. Howard-Jones, V.D. Ballard , S.C. Williams, and M.E. Frischer).

2001	Seasonal contrasts in biomass and primary production over the continental shelf off Cape Hatteras , North Carolina . ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Albuquerque , February 2001 (with S.E. Lohrenz, D.G. Redalje, and C. Flagg).

2001	Phytoplankton community structure within a discrete water mass in the coastal waters off Cape Hatteras , North Carolina . ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Albuquerque , February 2001 (with D.G. Redalje, S.E. Lohrenz, and K. Holtermann).

2001	Coupling between primary production and pelagic consumption in temperate ocean margin pelagic ecosystems. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Albuquerque , February 2001 (with D.G. Redalje, S.E. Lohrenz, and G.-A. Paffenhöfer).

2001	Grazing of autotrophic and heterotrophic protists by microzooplankton. British Section of the Society of Protozoologists Annual Meeting, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, April 2001.

2002	Application of fluorescent stains to determine trophic role of Phaeocystis pouchetii . ASLO meeting, Victoria , BC , June 2002 (with J.T. Anderson and K. Kohlberg).

2002	The impact of grazing by microzooplankton during ecosystem response to iron enrichment in the Southern Ocean in austral spring. ASLO meeting, Victoria , BC , June 2002.

2002	Amplifying prey ribosomal RNA genes: a promising method for determining complex zooplankton feeding interactions. ASLO meeting, Victoria , BC , June 2002 (with J.C. Nejstgaard, M.E. Frischer, C.L. Raule).

2002	Analysis of assimilatory nitrate reductase gene expression in heterotrophic bacteria by method development of RT-PCR. 2002 ASLO meeting, Victoria, BC, June 2002 (with C.M. Archer, M.G. Booth, A.E. Allen, M.E. Frischer, and M.G. Gilligan).

2002	Distinguishing active vs. inactive bacterial cells in sediment using the Vital Stain and Probe (VSP) method. ASLO meeting, Victoria , BC , June 2002 (with S.C. Williams, D.D. Pitts, and M.E. Frischer).

2003	Impacts of human population development on nutrient cycles and food webs in coastal waters of Georgia . WHOI Distinguished Lecture Series, Sept. 2003.

2004	Inorganic and organic nitrogen uptake in nutrient addition mesocosm experiments in a Norwegian fjord. ASLO winter meeting, Hawaii , Feb. 2004 (with Sanderson, M.P., D.B. Bronk, K.C. Filippino, M.E. Frischer, and J.C. Nejstgaard).

2004	Copepod feeding in a diatom bloom -- insights from an iron enrichment experiment in the Soutern Ocean . ASLO winter meeting, Hawaii , Feb. 2004 (with Schultes, S. and U. Bathmann).

2004	Quantitative molecular detection of prey in copepod guts. ASLO summer meeting, Savannah , GA , June 2004 (with Nejstgaard, J.C. and M.E. Frischer).

2004	Dynamics among nitrate assimilatory reductase gene ( nas A) phylotypes during an induced Phaeocystis pouchetii bloom. ASLO summer meeting, Savannah , GA , June 2004 (with Brofft, J., J. Braxton, and M. Frischer).

2004	Laboratory observations of Phaeocystis pouchetii (Prymnesiophyceae) colonies: measurement of colony growth and evidence for colony formation. ASLO summer meeting, Savannah , GA , June 2004 (with Patten, B.C. and S.J. Whipple).

2004	Life cycle of the marine phytoplankton Phaeocystis : a conceptual model to summarize literature and guide research. ASLO summer meeting, Savannah , GA , June 2004 (with Patten, B.C. and S.J. Whipple).

2004	Optimization of methods for analyzing images of plankton samples using a JAVA-based image analysis system. ASLO summer meeting, Savannah , GA , June 2004 (with Hristov, R., D.R. Rabon, S.C. Williams, and D.P. Heaton).

2004	Bacterial response at the community and individual cell levels to an induced bloom of Phaeocystis pouchetii . ASLO summer meeting, Savannah , GA , June 2004 (with Ballard, V.D., T.L. Walters, M.H. Howard-Jones, and M.E. Frischer).

2004	Building successful programs to increase diversity in the geosciences through HBCU/research center collaborations: lessons to enhance rates of participation nationally. AGU fall meeting, San Francisco , CA , December 2004 (with Gilligan, M.G. and M.E. Frischer).

2005	The rich get richer: individual cell and community bacterial response to an induced bloom of Phaeocystis pouchetii . ASLO Summer Meeting, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 2005 (with Frischer, M. E., Baylor, V. D., Walters, T. L., Danforth, J. D., and Nejstgaard, J. C.) .

2005	Long term declines in dissolved oxygen in well-mixed estuaries in the SE USA . ASLO Summer Meeting, Santiago de Compostela , Spain , June 2005 (with Alber, M. L. and Bricker, S. B.) .

2005	Are colonies or colonial cells of Phaeocystis pouchetii (Prymnesiophyceae) susceptible to virus infection? (with Jacobsen A, Martinez-Martinez J, Frischer ME, Sandaa R-A and Larsen A (2005) ASLO Summer Meeting, Santiago de Compostela, Spain June 19-24

2005	Functionality of copepod populations in high nutrient-low chlorophyll (HNLC) areas – how feeding ecology regulates vertical flux. ASLO Summer Meeting, Santiago de Compostela , Spain , June 2005 (with Schultes, S. and U. Bathmann).

2006	Differential grazing impact of dominant copepod species in the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone – towards a concept of the functionality of copepod populations in HNLC areas. 38th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics, May 2006 (with Schultes, S. and U. Bathmann).

2006	Two decades of change in the Skidaway Estuary , Georgia ( USA ). ASLO Summer Meeting, Victoria , B.C., June 2006.