Named Professors in the

College of Marine and Earth Sciences

Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies
College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
Research: Fisheries economics and management, individual transferable quotas and fisheries simulation models.
The professorship honors Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington, Delaware natives with a special love for the coast. Mr. Harrington graduated from Delaware in 1950 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.

E.I. du Pont Professor of Marine Studies
College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
Research: The transport of land emissions to the ocean, trace metal transport and cycling in salt marsh, estuarine and coastal waters, sedimentary geochemistry involving metals, sulfur and nutrients, and sea water precipitates and oceanic mineralization.
This professorship honors E.I. du Pont, who arrived in America from France in 1800, broke ground for powder mills two years later, and is credited as the founder of the DuPont Co.

Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies
College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
Research: The biology of marine larvae and early juveniles, and the physical and biological factors that drive year-to-year variations in populations of ecologically and commercially important fish and crustaceans.
The professorship honors Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington, Delaware natives with a special love for the coast. Mr. Harrington graduated from Delaware in 1950 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.

Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies
Research: Microbial ecology.
The professorship honors Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington, Delaware natives with a special love for the coast. Mr. Harrington graduated from Delaware in 1950 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.

Mary A.S. Lighthipe Chair in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
Research: Dynamics of mixing and stirring processes and the transport of matter and energy in natural environments.
Mary A. S. Lighthipe, a native of Sussex County, had a longtime interest in the inland bays of Delaware and established a named professorship in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment because of its research and teaching concerning the waters of and around Delaware.

Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies
Research: Redox reactions in the environment, trace element speciation in marine waters and sediments, biogeochemical processes in marine environments, application of molecular orbital theory to geochemical processes.
The professorship honors Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington, Delaware natives with a special love for the coast. Mr. Harrington graduated from Delaware in 1950 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.

Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor of Marine Studies
Research: Satellite oceanography, ocean circulation and climate change, environmental remote sensing.
Mary A. S. Lighthipe, a native of Sussex County, had a longtime interest in the inland bays of Delaware and established a named professorship in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment because of its research and teaching concerning the waters of and around Delaware.