Anticipated Postdoctoral Position--(Marine Phycologist)
A position is available beginning November 1, 1995 for a marine phycologist to participate in a taxonomic survey of macroscopic marine algae from the Gulf of Mexico in conjunction with a similar study of the marine invertebrate fauna. Algal sampling will be completed by a separate field team although the PR can be involved directly as needed and appropriate. Accurate algal identification is the primary objective; however, ecological data being generated concurrently will provide an exciting opportunity for examining patterns and causes of taxon distribution. On-going extensive molecular systematics research provides the opportunity to learn (if necessary) and apply molecular approaches to the identification of "difficult" taxa. Development of a computer-based intelligent-key to the macroscopic marine algae collected is another possible component of the project and ample computer-resources are available. Requirements: a PhD in marine phycology or closely related area and extensive experience in the identification of marine algae.
Additional Desired Qualifications: experience and/or interest in: marine algal ecology and biogeography, molecular systematics, and/or the algal flora of the Gulf of Mexico. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Application deadline date is October 6, 1995, or until candidate is selected. LSU is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Send letter of application and resume to:
Dr. Russell L. Chapman
Department of Plant Biology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
504-388-5843 (FAX: 504-388-5858)
Email: BTRUSS@UNIX1.SNCC.LSU.EDU
Marine/Freshwater Phycologist
The Department of Biology invites applications for a tenure-track, entry level, Assistant Professor position beginning September 1, 1996. Applicants must be able to assist with existing general biology courses and an advanced plant morphology course, teach existing graduate courses in marine and freshwater phycology, and develop a research program in some area of marine or freshwater ecology. Strong commitments to teaching and research involving undergraduate and M.S. level graduate students are expected. Post-doctoral research experience is desirable. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching and research goals, representative publications, and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to:
Dr. Robert Lonard, Search Committee Chair,
Department of Biology,
The University of Texas-Pan American,
1201 W. University Drive, Edinburg, TX 78539-2999.
Fax: 210/381-3657.
Application deadline: January 15, 1996.
Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
The University of Texas-Pan American is an Equal-Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
Post-doctoral research in Microalgae
A Post-Doctoral Research Associate position is available in the Laboratory for Algal Biotechnology, the Desert Research Institute (Ben Gurion University) at Sde Boker, Israel. The research relates to the production of PUFAs by microalgae and may involve physiological, biochemical or genetic engineering aspects. Experience in some or all of the following techniques is preferable, but not essential: Lipids, GC, HPLC, Algal physiology, Genetic engineering, Biochemistry.
Applicants should send a letter of intent, CV, and names and addresses of three referees to
Dr. Zvi Cohen.
Applicants are encouraged to apply via e-mail. Cohen@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
This is a competitive offer and decisions will be made in early 1996.
Research Assistant
A Research Assistant III position is available immediately to conduct research on the physiological ecology and biology of Porphyra. The position is available for up to three years and is being funded annually by the National Sea Grant Program (NOAA) through a special initiative for marine biotechnology and aquaculture. Preference will be given to applicants with a strong background in the cultivation of marine algae. The individual should have good computer and statistical skills, as well as the ability to conduct field research. A minimum of a Masters Degree or 2-4 years post degree experience in marine biology or a related discipline is required. Review of applications will commence immediately, but applicants will be accepted until the position is filled. Send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation to:
Dr. Charles Yarish,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Connecticut,
641 Scofieldtown Road,
Stamford, CT 06903 USA.
Telephone: 203-322-3466; FAX: 203-968-2567;
Internet: YARISH@UCONNVM.UCONN.edu
The University of Connecticut is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer.
Charles O'Kelly
In October 1995 Charles O'Kelly took a position as a Program Director in the (take a deep breath) Systematics and Population Biology Cluster, Division of Environmental Biology, Directorate of Biological Sciences, [US] National Science Foundation. Charlie writes, "This is a 'rotator' position, initially for 1 year. I'll send out full address and communications information after I arrive in Arlington, VA, and will make the information available online via the World Wide Web (see below). For those of you who are members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology; I expect to be resuming duties as the ISEP Newsletter Editor and (with Tim Littlejohn, who is presently at the University of Montreal but, after 1 November, will join the Australian National Genome Information Service - good on ya, mate!) co-manager of the ISEP WWW archive. If you're not presently a member of ISEP, check out the ISEP WWW archive: (http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/isep/isep.html). I also hope to resume work (again, in collaboration with Tim Littlejohn) on the Protist Image Database at (http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/protists/protists.html)."
Paul Biebel has recently retired from Dickenson College in Carlisle, PA. He was pleasantly surprised last May when a plaque bearing his name was unveiled on the wall in a laboratory in the biology Building. The herbarium room has been named "The Paul Biebel Herbarium Room." The room contains many specimens collected by Paul's former students.
Gary Saundershas taken a position in the Department of Biology at the University of New Brunswick, in Fredericton, N.B., Canada. Gary writes, "My research will continue as before and I have a fully equipped molecular laboratory including an automated sequencer. I will be teaching courses in traditional phycology, molecular evolution and systematics, and a course dedicated to the 'Tree of Life' which will try to unite the molecular and traditional data. My family and I are very pleased with Fredericton as a place to live and enjoy the freedom from the big city madness." Gary can be reached at:
Dr. Gary W. Saunders
Department of Biology
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, N.B., Canada
Email: gws@hubnov2.unb.ca
Glen Thursby writes, "I recently left the private sector for the more stable pastures of federal employment. I am now one of only two marine botanists in the entire EPA research establishment. This makes me one of the "top ten" marine botanical toxicologists within EPA. For those who know Dick Steele, I have essentially taken over the position which he vacated a couple of years ago for the greener pastures of retirement. It will be good to get back at the bench and in the field." back to top
In Memoriam
Larry A. Whitford
Those of you who knew him will want to know that Larry A. Whitford, Professor Emeritus of Botany, North Carolina State University, died on Friday, October 6, 1995, at the age of 93.
William J. Gilbert (1916-1994)
It is appropriate that the Society note the passing of William J. Gilbert, Professor Emeritus of Biology at Albion College, Albion, Michigan. Bill was born on February 10, 1916, in Shelton, Washington, and died on April 26, 1994, in Albion. Bill earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Washington in Seattle (B.S., 1938) and his graduate degrees at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (M.S., 1939; Ph.D., 1942). His major professor, Dr. Wm. Randolph Taylor, instilled in Bill a life-long interest in the tropical green algae (see below for a list of his publications). His special interests were the marine Chlorophyceae of the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands. His first employment both during and immediately following the Second World War was as a research biologist for Commercial Solvents Corporation in Terra Haute, Indiana. Bill worked on the production of penicillin and, in fact, had a patent on its manufacture from the U. S. Patent Office. He went from there to start as an Assistant Professor at Albion College in Michigan and rose through the ranks as an Associate Professor and Professor. He served as Chair of the Department of Biology from 1957 to 1971 and also had stints as the Associate Dean of the Faculty (1971-72) and Acting Dean (1972-73). Albion College honored him as their Faculty Scholar of the Year in 1978.
Bill Gilbert was a very generous, community-oriented individual, with a gracious personality. He served on the Albion Public School Board of education for eight years and was a founder of the Albion Area Ambulance Service, for which he was a dispatcher as well as president of its board. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, holding various local and statewide office positions in the Presbytery. He donated his phycological library to our Society for its annual auction. He donated his personal herbarium, comprised of his Hawaiian seaweed collections, to the University of Michigan (MICH). At the suggestion of the writer, he donated his reprint collection to the phycological lab of the Universidad AutÛnoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa in Mexico City.
Bill married Ruth E. Willoughby on June 27, 1942. She predeceased him on Jan. 17, 1994. He is survived by their four sons, Paul, Bruce, Mark, and Lee, as well as eight grandchildren and three brothers.
Publications of W. J. Gilbert
1942. Notes on Caulerpa from Java and the Philippines. Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts, & Letters 27: 7-26.
1942. (with C. K. Tseng) On new algae of the genus Codium from the South China Sea. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 32: 291-296.
1943. Studies on Philippine Chlorophyceae, I: The Dasycladaceae. Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts, & Letters 28: 15-35.
1946. Studies on Philippine Chlorophyceae, II: Survey of literature and list of recorded species prior to 1940. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 73: 73-79.
1946. (with R. J. Hickey) Production of conidia in submerged cultures of Penicillium notatum. J. Bacteriol. 51: 731-733.
1947. Studies on Philippine Chlorophyceae, III: The Codiaceae. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 74: 121-132.
1958. Note on Oedogonium. Le Naturaliste Canadien 85: 239-240.
1961. Codium phasmaticum Setchell in Hawaii. Trans. Am. Microsc. Soc. 80: 433-434.
1961. Pseudobryopsis oahuensis in Hawaii. Phycologia 1: 32-36.
1961 ("1959"). An annotated checklist of Philippine marine Chlorophyta. Philip. J. Sci. 88: 413-449, 1 pl.
1962. Contribution to the marine Chlorophyta of Hawaii, I. Pac. Sci. 16: 135-144.
1965. Contribution to the marine Chlorophyta of Hawaii, II. Additional records. Pac. Sci. 19: 482-492.
1969. Rhipidiphyllon cladophoroides, a new marine green alga from Hawaii. Phycologia 7: 54-58.
1969. (with M. S. Doty) Some additional records of Philippine marine Chlorophyta. Micronesica 5: 121-130.
1974. (with M. S. Doty and I. A. Abbott) Hawaiian marine algae from seaward of the algal ridge. Phycologia 13: 345-357.
1978. Observations on Dasycladus C. Agardh and Chlorocladus Sonder (Dasycladales, Chlorophyta) and description of Chlorocladus philippinensis Gilbert sp. nov. Phycologia 17: 305-310.
1978. Rhipilia sinuosa sp. nov. (Chlorophyta, Siphonales) from Micronesica. Phycologia 17: 311-313.
1983. Some marine benthic algae from Christmas Island in the Line Islands. Atoll Res. Bull. #265, 6 pp.
M. J. Wynne
Univ. of Michigan
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Barbara Hayhome (1942-1995)
Memorial services were held at the First Unitarian Church in Omaha, Nebraska, for Barbara Hayhome, who died on May 11th, 1995, of complications from cancer. Dr. Hayhome, a native of Sheridan, Wyoming, was a member of the Phycological Society of America, the International Phycological Society, the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, Sigma Xi, AAAS, AIBS, Botanical Society of America, Genetics Society of America, and the American Microscopical Society. Well known and respected our society in her role from 1989-1991 as PSA National Program Director, she was an Associate Editor for the Transactions of the American Microscopical Society in that same time frame.
Receiving her masters in botany (1967) and Ph.D. in biology (1970) from the University of Chicago, Barbara was an assistant professor at California State College at Chico (1969-72), and later became a Research Associate in the Pediatrics Department at Creighton University Medical School in Omaha (1972-75). At Midland Lutheran College, Fremont, Nebraska (1976-78), in a two-member biology department, she taught courses that ranged from biochemistry to field biology. She joined the University of Nebraska at Omaha biology faculty in 1978, and was full professor and Chair of Biology in 1989 at the time she was appointed Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
Many would be surprised at the breadth of Barbara's post-doctoral training, which included preparation in mammalian genetics at the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine; vertebrate cell culture at the W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center in Lake Placid, New York; systematics and ecology of diatoms at the Iowa Lakeside Lab; two summers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution studying proteins in dinoflagellates using gel electrophoresis; and two summer workshops on recombinant DNA. In the course of her career she also taught phycology, ecology, cell biology, and general, advanced, experimental and molecular genetics. Her publications ranged from "The genus Collinsia XXIX. Preferential pairing in diploid, triploid, and tetraploid interspecific hybrids involving C. stricta x C. concolor and related species (1968, Cytologia 33:247-255) to her last paper, "Variation among toxic and non-toxic dinoflagellates from Northeast United States and Canada. I. Enzyme electrophoresis (1989, Marine Biology 101:427-435).
Barbara was an energetic and award-winning teacher (at California State and Midland). Whenever I visited her lab there was much activity and excitement about biology in evidence. Barbara was always cheerful and fun to be around, and students liked her. We occasionally worked with each others students and shred seminar speakers, since her department was only an hour from mine.
The month before her death, Barbara was honored by the UNO Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women. She was cited as "instrumental in increasing the number of women faculty hired" and it was noted that she "helped those women to attain advancements." She chaired a committee for rewriting the affirmative action guidelines, which now serve as the document for all four campuses of the University of Nebraska. Recently, while Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, she was a successful recipient of a half-million dollar grant from the Peter Kiewit Foundation, to develop high technology multimedia classrooms.
Those of us who knew her would agree with her colleague Mary Glogoswki that "she was always very supportive as well as an incredibly generous person." She will be remembered by our Society as an active member and participant at our annual meetings, for her comparative research on enzymes of dinoflagellates in the genus Peridinium, and as an especially helpful colleague and friend to phycologists. A scholarship fund has been created in Dr. Barbara Hayhome's memory, by the University of Nebraska at Omaha Alumni Association, Omaha, NE 68182.Jim Rosowski
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The Phycological Newsletter in 1996
1996 will mark the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Phycological Society of America, and a special issue of the Newsletter is being planned to celebrate the event. The Anniversary issue will be the second of 1996, and it will include special historical material, commemorative articles by past presidents and early members of the Society, and other items still being assembled. Anyone wishing to contribute a memoir, brief or lengthy, photographs, or drawings, etc., please send them to the Editor at the address listed below. All materials will be either returned (upon request) or archived in the PSA Archive, curated by Bruce Parker. See the article by Bruce Parker in the 1995 No. 1 issue of the Newsletter for a call for suggestions on the celebration, which will take place the annual meeting at the University of California at Santa Cruz (not Asilomar, as originally announced). Additional suggestions for activities at the annual meeting itself should be sent to Bruce:
Dr. Bruce Parker
Department of Biology
College of Arts and Sciences
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061-9307
Email: genera@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
Subscriptions to the Newsletter
Members of the Phycological Society of America receive the Phycological Newsletter as one of the benefits of membership. To join PSA, contact
The Phycological Society of America,
Membership Office,
P.O. Box 1897, Lawrence,
KS, 66044-8897.
Telephone 913/843-1235;
fax 913/843-1274.
In addition to the Newsletter, members also receive six issues of the Journal of Phycology every year. Student memberships are discounted in price, and student members are eligible for various fellowships and travel awards for attending the Annual Meeting and summer field courses.Submissions to the Newsletter
Contributors are welcome to submit phycological news items, announcements of books, courses, awards, etc., articles, and other items for publication. The easiest form of submission is via email or on diskette, but all submissions are more than welcome. Deadlines for submission of material for the 1996 issues of the Newsletter are:
1996, No. 1 January 31, 1996
1996, No. 2 (special Anniversary issue) April 31, 1996
1996, No. 3 August 31, 1996
Send submissions to the Editor:
Dr. Richard M. McCourt
Department of Biological Sciences
1036 W. Belden Avenue
DePaul University
Chicago, IL 60614
Telephone: 312/325-7000, ext. 2191
Fax: 312/325-7596
Email: rmccourt@condor.depaul.edu
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Phycological Newsletter Vol. 31, No. 3 October 1995
