Lee G. Anderson, Ph.D. (Washington), Professor and Director, Marine Policy Program; also Professor, Economics: Economics of commercial and recreations fisheries management.

Mohsen Badiey, Ph.D. (University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science), Associate Professor; also Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering: Analytical and numerical modeling of geoacoustics and geophysics; seabed, laboratory and in-situ measurements related to seismo-acoustics problems.

John S. Boyer, Ph.D. (Duke), E.I. duPont Professor of Marine Biochemistry; also Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences: Water in the biochemistry and physiology of marine and terrestrial plants.

S. Craig Cary, Ph.D. (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Assistant Professor: Comparative physiology, biochemistry and ecology of marine invertebrate/bacterial symbioses; molecular techniques to resolve biochemical interactions between host and symbiont.

Thomas M. Church, Ph.D. (California, La Jolla), Professor; also Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry: Estuarine and atmospheric geochemistry; trace-element marine chemistry.

Biliana Cicin-Sain, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles), Professor and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Marine Policy; also Professor, Political Science and International Relations; also Professor, Urban Affairs and Public Policy: U.S. ocean policy; management of multiple ocean and coastal uses; state/federal relations; fisheries management; comparative ocean policy.

Stephen C. Dexter, Ph.D. (Delaware), Professor; also Professor, Materials Science and Engineering: Electrochemical corrosion; biologically influenced corrosion; structural materials in marine environments; bioadhesion.

Charles E. Epifanio, Ph.D. (Duke), Professor: Larval ecology; tropical ecology.

Patrick M. Gaffney, Ph.D. (State University of New York at Stony Brook), Associate Professor: Genetics of marine organisms; aquacultural genetics.

John L. Gallagher, Ph.D. (Delaware), Professor: Marine plant ecology, physiology, genetics, tissue culture, and economic development.

Richard W. Garvine, Ph.D. (Princeton), M.P. and M.H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies: Physical oceanography of the coastal ocean and estuaries: observations and models.

Ronald J. Gibbs, Ph.D. (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Colloidal Science; also Professor, Geology: Geochemistry; sedimentology; clay mineralogy; environmental studies.

Frank R. Hall, Ph.D. (Rhode Island), Assistant Professor; also Assistant Professor, Geology: Magnetic properties of sediments; magnetic mineralogy; environmental interpretations; paleomagnetic interpretations.

I. Pablo Huq, Ph.D. (University of Cambridge), Associate Professor: Turbulence in the environment; stratified flow phenomena; experimental fluid mechanics.

David A. Hutchins, Ph.D. (California-Santa Cruz), Assistant Professor: Affects on nutrient cycling on marine phytoplankton productivity, dynamics of pollutants within marine food web.

Willett M. Kempton, Ph.D. (Texas at Austin), Assistant Professor; also Assistant Professor, Urban Affairs and Public Policy; also Senior Policy Scientist, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy: Human dimensions of marine and environmental policy.

David L. Kirchman, Ph.D. (Harvard), M.P. and M.H. Harrington Professor and Director, Marine Biology/Biochemistry Program: Biochemical microbiology; marine microbial ecology; oceanography.

Victor V. Klemas, Ph.D. (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany), Professor and Director, Applied Ocean Science Program; also Director, Center for Remote Sensing; also Professor, Geography; also Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering: Remote sensing of marine and coastal resources; environmental monitoring and data management; optical physics.

Robert W. Knecht, M.S. (Rhode Island), Professor and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Marine Policy; also Professor, Political Science and International Relations; also Professor, Urban Affairs and Public Policy: Ocean and coastal management; ocean minerals; ocean policy; international ocean and environmental law.

George W. Luther III, Ph.D. (Pittsburgh),Professor; also Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry; also Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering: Marine chemistry; element redox cycles; inorganic and organic sulfur cycling.

Gerard J. Mangone, Ph.D. (Harvard), University Research Professor: Maritime and international law; shipping, ports, marine minerals policies.

Douglas C. Miller, Ph.D. (Washington), Associate Professor and Director, Oceanography Program: Deposit-feeding strategies; trophic interactions among organisms; organism-flow-sediment interactions; design of experiments.

George R. Parsons, Ph.D. (Wisconsin), Associate Professor; also Associate Professor, Economics: Environmental and natural resource economics; coastal zone management.

Kent S. Price, Jr., Ph.D. (Delaware), Associate Professor and Director, Marine Advisory Service; also Associate Professor, Biological Sciences: Marine pollution ecology and fisheries ecology; mariculture.

Jonathan H. Sharp, Ph.D. (Dalhousie), Professor: Marine organic chemistry; phytoplankton physiology; estuarine and coastal biological chemistry.

Nancy M. Targett, Ph.D. (Maine) Professor; also Associate Dean, College of Marine Studies; also Professor, Biological Sciences: Chemical/biological interactions in the marine environment; chemical ecology; antifouling mechanisms in marine organisms.

Timothy E. Targett, Ph.D. (Maine), Associate Professor: Ecology of estuarine and coastal marine fishes; physiological ecology of feeding, digestion, growth; trophic biology; energetics.

Carolyn A. Thoroughgood, Ph.D. (Maryland), Dean and Associate Professor; also Associate Professor, Animal and Food Sciences; and Director, Delaware Sea Grant Program: Nutritional biochemistry of bivalve molluscs; nutritional evaluation and preservation of fish.

William J. Ullman, Ph.D. (Chicago), Associate Professor; also Associate Professor, Geology: Geochemical cycles; rock/water interactions; coastal, estuarine, and nearshore processes.

J. Herbert Waite, Ph.D. (Duke), M.P. and M.H. Harrington Professor; also Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry: Protein chemistry; marine fouling; quinone tanning in marine invertebrates.

Ferris Webster, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Professor: The role of the ocean in climate variability; oceanographic data processing.

Kuo-Chuin Wong, Ph.D. (State University of New York at Stony Brook), Associate Professor: Physical oceanography; estuarine and coastal dynamics; time series analysis.

Xiao-Hai Yan, Ph.D. (State University of New York at Stony Brook), Professor: Satellite oceanography; remote sensing modeling and prediction of air-sea exchange, mixed layer, wind, heat flux and ocean circulation; image processing.

Charles H. Culberson, Ph.D. (Oregon State), Physical chemistry and electrochemistry of seawater; mathematical modeling of estuarine chemical processes. 

Ana I. Dittel, Ph.D. (Delaware), Larval biology; recruitment dynamics; tropical biology. 

Richard T. Field, Ph.D. (Delaware), Application of remote sensing to land surface climate studies, microclimatology of land surfaces. 

Denise M. Seliskar, Ph.D. (Delaware), Dune and wetland plant physiological ecology; tissue culture of dune plants. 

Theodore D. Tomasi, Ph.D. (Michigan), Natural resource and environmental economics, valuing environmental goods, growth and sustainability, nonpoint pollution. 

APPLIED OCEAN SCIENCE 

John R. Apel, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), Geophysical fluid dynamics; nonlinear internal waves; remote sensing; electromagentic scatter; non-acoustic antisubmarine warfare.

Robert B. Biggs, Ph.D. (Lehigh), Trace-element geochemistry; suspended organic and inorganic matter. 

Michael D. Collins, Ph.D. (Northwestern), Propagation and inverse problems in ocean acoustics. 

Robert G. Dean, Sc.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Beach erosion; tidal inlets; coastal structures; wave forces. 

Norden E. Huang, Ph.D. (The Johns Hopkins University), Applications of remote sensing techniques in physical oceanography. 

Kamlesh Lulla, Ph.D. (Indiana State), Advanced remote sensing techniques to study ecosystem changes on a global scale, space shuttle observations of internal waves on continental shelves and tidal process. 

Evelyn M. Maurmeyer, Ph.D. (Delaware), Coastal geomorphology; beach and nearshore processes. 

Tavit O. Najarian, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Hydrodynamics modeling; water quality simulation; estuarine eutrophication dynamics. 

James W. Rottman, Ph.D. (California, San Diego), Modeling of shiptrack plumes and cloud formation in the atmosphere 

MARINE BIOLOGY/BIOCHEMISTRY 

Charles J. Albisetti, Ph.D. (Northwestern) Organic chemistry; marine biopolymers. 

Bert G. Drake, Ph.D. (Utah State), Photosynthesis and water relations in marsh plants. 

Paul A. Grecay, Ph.D. (Delaware), Trophic ecology of estuarine fishes.

William H. Meredith, Ph.D. (Delaware), Estuarine ecology; wetlands management; mosquito control. 

James C. Pierce, Ph.D. (Temple University School of Medicine), Molecular genetics. 

Paul L. Wolf, Ph.D. (Delaware), Tidal marsh ecology. 

OCEANOGRAPHY 

Richard B. Coffin, Ph.D. (Delaware), Carbon and nitrogen cycling through bacteria in aquatic environments, microbial food chain, factors that contribute to euthrophication, and the impact of photo-oxidation on the cycling of organic matter. 

James Crease, B.A. (University of Cambridge, Selwyn College), Large-scale circulation of the oceans; data management in the World Ocean Circulation Experiment. 

Marilyn L. Fogel, Ph.D. (Texas, Austin), Stable isotope biogeochemistry of estuarine and coastal processes. 

Richard J. Geider, Ph.D. (Dalhousie), Phytoplankton/Photosynthesis and optical properties, physiological adaption to light nutrients and temperature. 

Timothy D. Jickells, Ph.D. (Southampton, UK), Inorganic biogeochemistry of the hydrosphere and atmosphere. 

Anthony H. Knap, Ph.D. (Southampton Univ., U.K.) Organic geochemistry, biogeochemical and atmospheric processes that affect the deposition and fate of anthropogenic compounds in the ocean, marine environmental research. 

David E. Krantz, Ph.D. (South Carolina), Stable isotope geochemsitry;  mollusc ecology and paleoecology;  paleoceanography;  marine geology.

Julie La Roche, Ph.D. (Dalhousie) Biophysics and molecular biology of photosynthesis, active transport and energy transduction in microorganisms, applications of molecular biology techniques to problems of biological oceanography, marine ecology and biogeochemistry. 

Donald B. Nuzzio, Ph,D. (Rutgers), Electrochemistry and chromatography applications to analysis of trace constituents of seawater. 

Manmohan Sarin, Ph.D. (Gujarat University, India), Radiometric and trace element studies of oceanic particulates, marine sediments, and ferromanganese deposits; use of natural radionuclides to investigate geochemical processes in estuaries and salt marshes; atmospheric transport of chemical constituents to the ocean. 

William G. Sunda, Ph.D. (M.I.T./WHOI), Trace metal uptake by phytoplankton and biogeochemical cycling in the ocean. 

Alain J. Veron, Ph.D. (University of Paris, Orsay), The study of trace metal cycles in modern marine and continental environments. 

• Biological Sciences:  Malcolm H. Taylor 
• Civil and Environmental Engineering: Herbert E. Allen, Alexander H-D. Cheng, Robert A. Dalrymple, Chin-Pao Huang, James T. Kirby, Nobuhisa Kobayashi, Ib A. Svendsen. 
• Economics: Richard J. Agnello. 
• Electrical and Computer Engineering: Gonzalo R. Arce, Charles S. Ih. 
• Geography: Cort J. Willmott, Tracy L. DeLiberty. 
• Geology: Billy P. Glass, John C. Kraft, John A. Madsen, Ronald E. Martin, Susan McGeary, John F. Wehmiller. 
• Mechanical Engineering: Jack R. Vinson. 
• Philosophy: Nancy McCagney. 
• Political Science and International Relations: James K. Oliver, Richard T. Sylves. 
• Urban Affairs and Public Policy: John M. Byrne. 
• University Parallel Program: Larry A. Curtis