Education:

• B.A. 1965 University of California at Santa Barbara
• M.A. 1967 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Ph.D. 1969 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Professional Experience:

Positions:

• Kingsbury Director, Shoals Marine Laboratory and Professor of Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1997 -
• Professor of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1980 - 1997
• Associate Professor of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1975 - 1980.
• Assistant Professor of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1969 - 1975.

Current Research:

Studies of mechanisms and functions of bioluminescence in marine organisms. Approaches include systematics, phylogenetics, physiology, behavior, morphology and ecology in both field and laboratory. Current emphasis on bioluminescent signaling, mating patterns, population biology, functional morphology, and phylogeny and systematics of ostracode crustaceans.

Professional Activities:

• Instructor in Experimental Invertebrate Zoology Course, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1970 - 1974;
• Catalina Marine Science Center, Catalina Island, California, summers of 1976 (Comparative Physiology), 1977 (Biology of Coelenterates);
• Introduction to Marines Sciences Course, West Indies Lab, St. Croix, U.S.V.I. Summer 1980, 1981;
• Biology of Invertebrates Course, Friday Harbor Laboratory, U. of Washington, Friday Harbor, WA summer 1984;
• UCLA Marine Biology Quarter: 12 times at the Catalina Marine Science Center, one time (F 1986) at the Bodega Marine Lab; Bartels Director and contributing faculty, Shoals Marine Laboratory, 1997-.
• The BBC released a television program (Feb 1994) entitled "Natures Neons" featuring bioluminescence in which the ostracode luminescence work played a prominent role.

Administrative and Other Service:

• Director of the Shoals Marine Laboratory, Appledore Island, Maine, 1997 -
• Vice Chairman [or equivalent], Department of Biology, UCLA, 1975 - 1977, 1983-1984, 1987 - 1988, 1995 - 1997.
• Undergraduate Advisor for the Department of Biology, UCLA, 1986 - 1993
• Graduate Advisor for the Department of Biology, UCLA, 1993 - 1994.
• Diving Control Board, UCLA, 1971 - 1981, 1991 - 1997.
• Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental Zoology, 1978 - 1981.
• Research Associate in Invertebrate Zoology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1985 - 1997.

Professional Organizations:

American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Society of Zoologists; Society for Experimental Biology; Western Society of Naturalists; Member of the Corporation, MBL, Woods Hole, Mass.; American Society for Photobiology; American Society of Limnology and Oceanography; Animal Behavior Society; The Crustacean Society.

Research Expeditions (Outside the continental U. S.):

Enewetak Atoll; LaParguera, Puerto Rico; Gulf of Eilat, Israel; Banda Islands, Indonesia; R.V. Discovery (British) off Canary Islands; Soccoro Islands, Mexico; Canton Atoll, Phoenix Group; Baja Mexico; off Oahu, Hawaii; St. Croix, U.S.V.I.; Dumaguete, Philippines; Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada; Bering Sea; San Blas Islands, Panama; Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica; Jamaica; Belize; Curacao, Bonaire, Barbados, San Salvador (Bahamas); Grand Cayman Island; Bermuda; Roatan Island, Honduras; Akumal, Yucatan.