Personnel Directory

Marine Science Faculty

Name /Rank /Email /Phone(912)	Research Interests and Projects/Instructional Specialties
Dr. Tara Cox Assistant Professor Email: coxt@savstate.edu Phone: 912-356-2310	Conservation biology of long-lived marine vertebrates (marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds); marine policy and management; fisheries ecology and management, especially as it relates to by catch; interactions of human activities (e.g., fisheries and sound) with marine mammals. marine spatial analysis.
Dr. Carla Curran Associate Professor Email: curranc@savstate.edu Phone: 912-691-7434	Physiological adaptations of fishes, Metabolic cost of sex change in fishes, larval transport and settlement by juveniles flatfishes, bopyrid isopod parasite prevalence in grass shrimp, recovery of Meiofauna in intertidal feeding pits created by rays, Spartina dieback in coastal Georgia.
Dr. Matthew Gilligan Program Coordinator Professor Email: gillganm@savstate.edu Phone: 912-356-2808	Biogeography and ecology of coastal migratory and tropical marine reef fishes, biology of live-bottom reefs of the inner- and midshelf of the South Atlantic Bight, marine sanctuaries and marine protected areas.
Dr. Dionne Hoskins Fishery Biologist, NOAA Fisheries Associate Graduate Professor Email: hoskins@savstate.edu Phone: 912-352-8925	Deposit-feeder ecology, assimilation of microbial polymeric secretions, using mariculture to encourage diversity in marine science careers, genotoxic endpoints in marine invertebrates, coastal zone management, aquaculture, fishery management in Southern Ghana.
Dr. Carol Pride Associate Professor Email: pridec@savstate.edu Phone: 912-691-7446	Marine records of climatic and oceanographic change, Marine Sediments, Micropaleontology, Stable isotope biogeochemistry.

Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Adjunct Graduate Faculty

ALEXANDER, Clark, Professor
Ph.D., North Carolina State University.
Phone: (912)598-2329
Email: clark.alexander@skio.usg.edu

BLANTON, Jackson O., Professor
Ph.D., Oregon State University.
Email: jack.blanton@skio.usg.edu

FRISCHER, Marc E., Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of South Florida.
Phone: (912)598-2308
Email: marc.frischer@skio.usg.edu

LEE, Richard F., Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.
Phone: (912)598-2494 or 2487
Email: dick.lee@skio.usg.edu

SANDERS, James G., Director and Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Phone: (912)598-3340
Email: jim.sanders@skio.usg.edu

VERITY, Peter G., Professor
Ph.D., University of Rhode Island.
Email: peter.verity@skio.usg.edu

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Dr. Jeffrey King

Assistant Professor, USACE
Email: jeffrey.k.king@sas02.usace.army.mil

Coastal Zone Management, Policies and practices pertaining to: National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Navigation Act; and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. Effective land use in the coastal zone, management of dredge material and dredging activities, study of stormwater input to estuaries.