Faculty Senate
The UMCES Faculty Senate provides faculty with a voice in the deliberation of Center policies, strategies, and administrative decisions that affect the entire UMCES community.
The Senate is the principal forum for ensuring adequate and productive communication between the UMCES faculty, professional staff and UMCES administration. It serves as both an advisory body to the President of UMCES and is the official forum recognized by the University System of Maryland Chancellor and the Board of Regents for the expression of the concerns and interests of UMCES faculty.
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| Name/Title | Lab/Description | Contact Information |
|---|---|---|
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Lee Cooper Research Professor |
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
Stable and radioisotope composition of organic materials and natural waters; aquatic plant physiology; high latitude oceanography and hydrology |
410-326-7359 |
|
Andrew Elmore Associate Professor |
Alternate - AL
Environmental Science, Land-use and land-cover change, Ecohydrology, Biogeochemistry, Remote sensing and spatial analysis. |
301-689-7124 |
|
Katia Engelhardt Research Associate Professor |
Appalachian Laboratory
Effects of species richness on wetland ecosystem functioning and services; Community ecology and ecosystem ecology; Wetland ecology; Aquatic botany |
301-689-7140 |
|
Matthew Fitzpatrick Assistant Professor |
Appalachian Laboratory
Species distribution modeling, simulation modeling, climate change, biological invasions, biodiversity |
301-689-7131 |
|
Raleigh Hood Professor |
Senate Chair - HPL
Biological oceanography |
410-221-8434 |
|
Rosemary Jagus Associate Professor |
Co-Chair - IMET
Translational control of gene expression, regulation of gene activity during early development, host defense against virus infection and viral countermeasures, diversity of eukaryotic translational initiation with emphasis on dinoflagellates. |
410-234-8822 |
|
Evamaria Koch Associate Professor |
Alternate - HPL
Hydrodynamically-mediated processes in seagrasses; the effect of global change on coastal plant communities with a focus on sea-level rise and coastal erosion. |
410-221-8418 |
|
Cindy Palinkas Assistant Professor |
Horn Point Laboratory
Continental-margin sedimentation; formation and preservation of sedimentary strata in the geological record; deposition and accumulation of fluvial sediment in the coastal ocean |
410-221-8487 |
|
Christopher Rowe Associate Professor |
Alternate - CBL
Relationships between sublethal exposure of individuals to pollution and effects at higher levels of organization; ecotoxicology of coal combustion residues (coal ash); bioenergetics of marine and freshwater animals. |
410-326-7227 |
|
Larry Sanford Professor |
Horn Point Laboratory
Coastal physical oceanography; boundary layer fluid mechanics and sediment transport; oceanographic instrumentation |
410-221-8429 |
|
David Secor Professor |
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
Population ecology of fishes; analytical techniques for determining fish life histories and demographics; fisheries and aquaculture |
410-326-7229 |





