Horn Point Laboratory
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science P.O. Box 775 Cambridge, MD 21613 Phone: 410-221-8490 Fax: 410-476-5490 Email: stoecker@hpl.umces.edu I. Education
1969 B.Sc., University of New Hampshire, Botany. 1970 M.S., University of Hawaii, Microbiology.
1979 Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, Ecology & Evolution. II. Professional Background
Postdoctoral Scholar W.H.O.I., Woods Hole, MA, l979-l980 Assistant Scientist, W.H.O.I., Woods Hole, MA, l980-1984 Associate Scientist, W.H.O.I., Woods Hole, MA, 1984-1991 Associate Professor, CEES, Univ. of Maryland System, 1991-1995 Professor, UMCES 1995-present
Awards and Special Recognition
Fellow, Amercian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1996-present. University of Maryland, Regents Award for Scholarship, 2005
Luigi Provasoli Award, 2007, The Phycological Society of America II. Research
A. Areas of professional expertise
Biological oceanography, physiological ecology of microzooplankton and dinoflagellates, trophic dynamics of microzooplankton, mixotrophy in dinoflagellates and ciliates
B. Peer-reviewed publications
Recent Papers in Refereed Journals (some papers were published earlier online and appeared in 2013 CV—these are noted)
Gao, Y, Cornwell JC, Stoecker DK, Owens, M. 2012. Effects of cyanobacterial driven pH increases on sediment nutrient fluxes and coupled nitrification-denitrification in a shallow fresh water estuary. Biogeosciences: 9:2697-2710.
Smalley, GW, Coats DW, Stoecker, DK. 2012. Influence of inorganic nutrients, irradiance, and time of day on food uptake by the mixotrophic dinoflagellate Neoceratium furca. Aquat Microb Ecol 68: 29-41.
Flynn, K.J., D.K. Stoecker, A. Mitra, J.A. Raven, P.M. Glibert, P.J. Hansen, E. Graneli, and J.M. Burkholder. 2013. Misuse of the phytoplankton-zooplankton dichotomy: the need to assign organisms as mixotrophs within plankton functional types. Journal of Plankton Research 35: 3-11.
Johnson, MD, Stoecker, DK, Marshall HG. 2013. Seasonal dynamics of Mesodinium rubrum in Chesapeake Bay. J Plankton Res. 35: 877-893.
Mitra, A, Flynn, K.J., Burkholder, J.M., Berge, T., Calbet, A., Raven, J.A., Granéli, E, Glibert PM, Hansen PJ, Stoecker, DK, Thingstad F, Tillman U, Våge S, Wilken S, Zubkov, MV. 2014 The role of mixotrophic protists in the biological carbon pump. Biogeosciences 10:1-28. (published online as discussion paper in 2013)
Gao Y, Cornwell, JC, Stoecker, DK, Owens, MS. 2014. Influence of cyanobacterial blooms on sediment biogeochemistry and nutrient fluxes. Limnol. Oceanogr. 59: 959-971.
Gao, Y, O’Neil J, Stoecker, DK, Cornwell, JC 2014. Photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation during cyanobacterial blooms in an oligohaline and tidal fresh estuary. Aquat Microb Ecology 72:129-144.
Stoecker, D, Weigel, A, Stockwell, D, Lomas, M. 2014. Microzooplankton: Abundance, biomass and contribution to chlorophyll in the Eastern Bering Sea in summer. Deep Sea Res. II, 109: 134-144. (available online in 2013)
Stoecker, D, Weigel A, Goes J. 2014. Microzooplankton Grazing in the Eastern Bering Sea in Summer. Deep Sea Res. II, 109: 145-156. (available online in 2013)
Goes JI, Gomes H do R, Haugen E, McKee K, D'Sa E, Chekalyuk AM, Stoecker D, Stabeno P, Saitoh S, Sambrotto R. 2014. Fluorescence, pigment and microscopic characterization of Bering Sea phytoplankton community structure and photosynthetic competency in the presence of a Cold Pool during summer. Deep Sea Res. II,109: 84-99.
Technical reports
MDSG annual and final reports NSF annual and final reports
1. Books
Stoecker, DK. 2012. Chapter 5, Predators of Tintinnids, pp. 123-144 in Dolan, JR,
Montagnes, DS, Agatha, S, Coats, DW and Stoecker, D (eds) The Biology and Ecology of Tintinnid Ciliates: Models for Marine Plankton. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Contracts and grants (2010-present) 1. Awarded:
Microzooplankton abundance, biomass, and grazing on phytoplankton during summer in the eastern Bering Sea, NPRB, BEST/BSIERP Program PI, $299,741, 01/01/08-03/31/11.
Maryland Sea Grant, Cyanoacterial Blooms: A Roadblock to estuarine restoration? (Stoecker lead PI, co-PI Cornwell). $140,000. 02/01/09-01/31/10.
NSF, Collaborative Research: Hypoxia in marine ecosystems: Implications for neritic copepods (lead PI: Peirson, coPIs: Roman, Houde, Stoecker) 9/01/10-08/31/14.
NSF, BioOce, Collaborative Research: Trophodynamics of Myrionecta rubra and cryptophytes algae (lead PI: Matt Johnson, co-PI Stoecker) $67,932. 09/10/10-08/31/13.
Collaborative Research: Impact of sea-ice on bottom-up and top-down controls on crustacean zooplankton and the mediation of carbon and energy flow in the eastern Bering Sea. (lead PI Mordy, Stoecker one of several co-PIs) $102,021. 09/01/11-08/31/14.
Collaborative Research: The effects of diatom-produced polyunsaturated aldehydes on the microbial food web in temperate and polar waters. (PI: PJ Lavrentyev, CoPIs: Pierson and Stoecker). $697,972 (4/1/14-3/31/17)
MDSG fellowship to Nicole Millette “Fate of Carbon Produced by Winter Dinoflagellate Blooms”
2. Submitted in 2014: None
Stoecker, Lavrentyev & Franze., (poster) Mixotrophy in Arctic & Subarctic planktonic protists: Potential food web and ecosystem effects. Bering Sea Open Science Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb 22, 2014.
Stoecker, Weigel & Lomas. (oral presentation). Microzooplankton Abundance, Biomass, Contribution to Chlorophyll and Grazing in the Eastern Bering Sea in Summer. Session 088, Ocean Science Meeting, Honolulu, Feb 24, 2014.
Stoecker. Generalist Non-constitutive Mixotrophs (GNC). (oral presentation). , Leverhulme Trust Mixotrophy Workshop for Modelers, May 19-23, 2014, Swansea, Wales.
Stoecker, Nejstgaard, Pohnert, Wolfram, Jacobsen, Madhusoodhana, & Larsen. (oral presentation) Under-estimation of microzooplankton grazing in dilution experiments during blooms of Skeletonema marinoi and Phaeocystis pouchetii. Phaeoenigma Final Project Meeting, 18-20 June 2014, Bergen, Norway.
F. Active Memberships in Professional Societies
The American Society of Limnology and Oceanography International Society of Protistologists
Phycological Society of America III. Teaching and Training 2014
Member UMCES Graduate Faculty
Member MEES and UMS Inter-Institutional Graduate Faculty A. University System of Maryland Courses Taught
None
B. Graduate students supervised as major advisor None
1. Degrees completed
Jeffrey R Merrell; M.S., MEES, 1996, UMCP: Effects of spatial scaling and predation by copepods on microzooplankton population dynamics.
Aishao Li; Ph.D, MEES, 1998, UMCP: The feeding physiology and ecology of the mixotrophic dinoflagellate Gyrodinium galatheanum.
Gabriela W. Smalley; Ph.D., MEES, 2002. UMCP: Mixotrophy in the red-tide dinoflagellate Ceratium furca, with emphasis on feeding biology and ecology.
Matthew D. Johnson; PhD., MEES 2005, UMCP: Ecological, physiological and molecular aspects of plastid retention in the ciliate Mesodinium rubrum
Monica Salerno: MS, MEES 2005, UMCP: Ectocellular enzyme activities in the mixotrophic dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum
Anne E. Thessen; Ph.D., MEES 2007, UMCP: The toxic diatom Pseudo-Nitzschia and Domoic Acid in Chesapeake Bay
Sean Cooney, MS 2008, MEES, UMCP (co-advisor with Wayne Coats): Mixotrophy in dinoflagellate parasites of fish
Desmond Johns, MS 2009, MEES, UMCP: Effect of pH on phytoplankton and bacteria production.
Yonghui Gao, Ph.D., 2011. MEES, UMCP (co-advisor with Jeff Cornwell): Regulation of estuarine biogeochemical processes by cyanobacterial blooms.
2. Students Currently Supervised
Nicole Millette, MEES, UMCP: preliminary title: Winter blooms in the estuary (switched to Ph.D. with Pierson during 2014)
3. Graduate student committee memberships, 2014 Alex Atkinson. MS, MEES
Nicole Millette, PhD, MEES Ali Barber, MS, MEES Michelle Lin, PhD, MEES
Juan Alvarez-Rosario, Ph.D., MEES IV. Outreach and Service
A. Editorships Public Service
B. Federal/State/Local Government C.
Participant, OCB scoping workshop BLOS May 2014.
D. International:
Consortium partner of Uni Research project “A novel cross-disciplinary approach to solve an old enigma: the food web transfer of the mass blooming phytoplankter Phaeocystis” financed by Research Council of Norway.
Co-organizer of Leverhulme Trust International Workshop, Modeling Mixotrophy, Swansea, Wales, May 19-23, 2014.
Co-convenor with Mitra, Jeong and Fulton of 1 day workshop “Paradigm shifts in plankton ecology: the central role of mixotrophic protists in future oceans. IMBER Open Science Conference, Bergen, Norway, June 23, 2014.
Examiner, Ph.D. defense of Karen Riisgaard “Trophic role of protozooplankton in northern marine ecosystems’, DTU Aqua, Charlottenlund, Denmark, 10 Dec 2014.
F. UMCP, UMCES and Laboratory Post doc mentoring commitee
Member, MEES Program Committee Co-Chair, Oceanography AOS
HPL Library Committee Sustainability Committee Seminar Committee
