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Christopher F. D'Elia

Environmental Science and Policy

Regional Associate Vice Chancellor and Professor, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1974

Email: Dr. Christopher D'Elia

Phone: (727) 873-4812

My academic expertise includes nutrient dynamics in aquatic systems, estuarine ecology, coral reef ecology, algal/invertebrate symbiosis, science policy, math and science education, marine pollution, global climate change, and analytical chemistry.

Selected Publications

Suszkowski, D. J., and C. F. D'Elia. The History and Science of Managing the Hudson River in J. S. Levinton and J. Waldman, editors. The Hudson River. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York (in press).

D’Elia C.F. and P.M. Bray. Bridging the “Science-Policy Disconnect” to Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Systems. In press. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment, MEDCOAST 03, E. Özhan (Editor), 7-11 October 2003, Ravenna, Italy (in press).

D’Elia C.F., W.R. Boynton and J.G. Sanders. 2003. A watershed perspective on nutrient enrichment, science and policy in the Patuxent River, Maryland, 1960-2000. Estuaries 26:171–185.

Boesch D.F., J. Burger, C.F. D'Elia, D.J. Reed, and D. Scavia. 2000. Scientific synthesis in estuarine management, pp. 507-526. In: J.E. Hobbie [ed.], Estuarine Science: A Synthetic Approach to Research and Practice. Island Press, Washington, D.C.

Schmitt R., E. Doyle, S. Ramberg, H. Bezdek, C. D'Elia, E. Druffel, L. Mayer, and G. Weatherly. 1999. The Academic Research Fleet: A Report to the Assistant Director for Geosciences by the Fleet Review Committee. National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.

Muller-Parker G. and C.F. D’Elia. 1997. Interactions between corals and their symbiotic algae, pp. 96-113. In: C. Birkeland [ed.], Life and Death of Coral Reefs. Chapman & Hall, NY.

V. N. de Jonge, W. Boynton, C. F. D’Elia, R. Elmgren, and B. L. Welsh. 1995. Responses to developments in eutrophication in four different North Atlantic estuarine systems, pp. 179-196. In: K.R. Dyer and R.J. Orth [eds.], Changes in Fluxes in Estuaries: Implications from Science to Management. Proceedings of ECSA22/ERF, University of Plymouth. Olsen and Olsen, Fredensborg, Denmark.

Muller-Parker G., C.B. Cook, and C.F. D’Elia. 1994. Elemental composition of the coral Pocillopora damicornis exposed to elevated seawater ammonium. Pacific Science 48:234-246.

Cook C.B., G. Muller-Parker, and C.F. D’Elia. 1992. Ammonium enhancement of dark carbon fixation and nitrogen limitation in symbiotic zooxanthellae: Effects of feeding and starvation of the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida. Limnol. Oceanogr 37:131-139.

D'Elia C.F. and W.J. Wiebe. 1990. Biogeochemical nutrient cycles in coral reef ecosystems, pp. 49-74. In: Z. Dubinsky [ed.], Coral Reefs: Ecosystems of the World Series. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam.

Synergistic activities

Extensive Public Service Activities (e.g., Chair Emeritus, Council of Scientific Society Presidents; Former President, Estuarine Research Federation; Former Co-Chair, Board on Oceans and Atmosphere; Executive Committee, Council on Research Policy and Graduate Education, NASULGC; Board of Directors, Hudson River Foundation; Former President, Sea Grant Association; Former Chair, Patuxent Basin §208 Basin Plan Technical Advisory Group; Former Member, Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, Chesapeake Bay Program); Industrial Research Institute, Education Advisory Committee. Fellow, AAAS; Service Award from Maryland Governor Harry Hughes; Certificate of Excellence, Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer; President’s Award Sea Grant Association, others.

Courses

Biology 306, Marine Biology; Public Administration and Policy 485/585 Hudson River Watershed.

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