David Hutchins
Professor of Biological Sciences
Contact Information
Office: AHF 107
Phone: (213)740-5616
E-mail:
dahutch@usc.edu
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Education
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 B.S. Biology, Portland State University, 1987
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M.S. Biology, Portland State University, 1989
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Ph.D. Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, 1994
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Postdoctoral Training
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Postdoctoral researcher, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1/4/1994-1/6/1995
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
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Professor of Oceanography, University of Delaware, 1/7/2005-3/31/2007
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Associate Professor of Oceanography, University of Delaware, 7/1/2001-6/3/2005
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Assistant Professor of Oceanography, University of Delaware, 1/8/1996-6/30/2001
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Description of Research
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
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Dave Hutchins’ research interests concern marine phytoplankton biology and nutrient and carbon cycling. In general, these projects often involve first building hypotheses based on experimental work with algal cultures in the laboratory. These hypotheses are then tested in experiments with natural communities of plankton onboard research vessels at sea. His recent and current projects include extensive investigations into the role of iron and other trace metals as biologically limiting nutrients in the ocean, and factors that affect the establishment of destructive blooms of harmful and toxic algae. New projects in regions like the Bering Sea, the North Atlantic, and the seas around Antarctica are examining the impacts of anthropogenic global change (e.g. rising CO2, acidity and temperature) on the structure and diversity of phytoplankton communities, and on the ocean nutrient cycling pathways and food webs that they support. Another ongoing project is examining the implications of increasing atmospheric CO2 for nitrogen-fixing organisms in the tropical and subtropical oceans. This new work is at the forefront of increasingly urgent efforts among the international oceanography community to understand the consequences of human fossil fuel emissions for ocean biology and chemistry, and in turn predict the potential feedbacks from these changing ocean processes to atmospheric CO2 and global climate.
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Research Specialties
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Phytoplankton biology,
Biogeochemical oceanography,
Ocean carbon and nutrient cycles,
Ocean climate change feedbacks,
Trace metal/biota interactions, Harmful algal bloom studies
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Funded Research
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Contracts and Grants Awarded
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Collaborative Research: CO2 Control Of Oceanic Nitrogen Fixation (National Science Foundation), Hutchins, David, Quick, Michael William, $594,269, 5/1/2007-4/30/2010
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The Future of Harmful Algal Blooms (University of Delaware (EPA subcontract)), Hutchins, David, $153,027, 4/1/2007-9/30/2009
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SGER: Science-of-Opportunity Aboard Icebreaker Oden (National Science Foundation), Hutchins, David, Fu, Feixue, $78,476, 9/1/2007-8/31/2008
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Collaborative Research: Interactive Effects Of Iron Light And CO2 on Phytoplankton Community Dynamics in the Ross Sea (National Science Foundation), Hutchins, David, $158,929, 4/1/2007-1/31/2008
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Collaborative Research: US/EC Collaboration On Potential Climate Change Impacts on Algal Community Structure and Biogeochemistry (National Science Foundation), Hutchins, David, $97,908, 4/1/2007-10/31/2007
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Service to the Profession
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Editorships and Editorial Boards
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Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans, 2006-
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Professional Memberships
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The Oceanography Society, 2007-
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American Geophysical Union, 2006-
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American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 2006-
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Phycological Society of America, 2006-
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