Grimes to chair Conference on Oceans and Human Health

May 22, Dr. Jay Grimes has been chosen to chair the Gordon Research Conference on Oceans and Human Health at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine from June 3 - June 8. Dr. Jeff Lotz will present a discussion on aquaculture titled "Contained Biosecure Aquaculture."  Mississippi Press article

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Kevin Dillon

 

Kevin S. Dillon, Ph.D.

(228) 818-8809
kevin.dillon@usm.edu




 

Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564

My main research interest is in the biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients in coastal ecosystems. Currently, I am evaluating the nitrogen dynamics in surface waters of the Mississippi Sound to examine the sources, sinks and bioavailability of the largest nitrogen pool in these waters, dissolved organic nitrogen (DON). Currently, my my research group is conducting bacterial growth and respiration experiments to determine whether nitrogen or phosphorus limits heterotrophic bacterial production in Mississippi Sound. Other research interests include the delivery of nutrients, organic matter, and comtaminants by groundwater seepage into coastal waters.  I am also interested in the nitrogen and carbon cycling in closed marine aquaculture systems.