EDUCATION

1982 Ph.D., Biological Sciences
University of Rhode Island (Kingston, Rhode Island)
Dissertation:Patterns and Rates of DNA Synthesis and Cell Division in Marine Dinoflagellates

1976 M.S., Botany and Plant Pathology
Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
Thesis:Distribution of Planktonic Diatoms in the Yaquina Estuary, Oregon USA

1973 B.S., Biology
University of Rhode Island (Kingston, Rhode Island)

EXPERIENCE

1997 – present
Professor, University of San Francisco
Department of Biology and Department of Environmental Science

2006 – present (2003 – 2004, 1998 – 2001)
Chair, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco

2004 – present
Visiting Professor, Department of Dermatology
Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco

2001 – 2003
Associate Program Manager, Antarctic Biology and Medicine Program
Office of Polar Programs, U.S. National Science Foundation
Arlington, VA 22203

1992 – 1997
Associate Professor
Department of Biology and Department of Environmental Science
University of San Francisco

1987 – 1992 Assistant Research Biologist
Laboratory of Radiobiology and Environmental Health
University of California San Francisco

1983 – 1986 National Research Service Award Post-Doctoral Fellow
Laboratory of Radiobiology and Environmental Health
University of California San Francisco

1982 – 1983 Research Biologist
Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2006 – present
U.S. representative to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Life Sciences Standing Scientific Group
Appointed by the National Academies Division on Earth and Life Studies Polar Research Board

2005 – present    
Associate Editor, Phycologia
(journal of the International Phycological Society, Blackwell Publishers)

2005 – present
Member, Education Committee, Phycological Society of America

2004 – present
Member, U.S. Steering Committee for the Armenian Cosmic Ray Division of the Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia

1994 – present    
Instructor, Integrative Biology and Adaptation of Antarctic Marine Organisms, an advanced graduate course taught at McMurdo Station, Antarctica
(sponsored by Office of Polar Programs, US National Science Foundation)