Marc Frischer |
Marc Frischer
Professor
Skidaway
Institute of Oceanography
Savannah, GA, USA
Expertise:
Environmental Microbiology, Molecular Biology
Issues of Interest:
- Estuarine Water Quality
- Marsh Processes
- Continental
Shelf
Current Projects:
- Nitrate utilization by heterotrophic bacteria
- Determination of single cell activity of marine bacterioplankton
- Biocomplexity in mangrove forest ecosystem
- Biocomplexity - Phaeocystis as a complex adaptive system
- Alternate bacteriological indicators of estuarine water quality
- Diagnostics of diseases of aquatic organisms (crabs and shrimp)
- The Hematodinium epidemic in blue crab populations in GA
- Education and research partnerships within the University System of Georgia
- Exotic Species
Location:
Estuary,
marsh, continental shelf (others, too).
Project Links:
Biomonitoring for the Georgia Coast: Oysters as Sentinels of Coastal
Water Quality
Marc
Frischer (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography), Keith Maruya (Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority)
Microbial Indexing of Saltmarsh Health and Recovery: Development of a Health/Productivity Scale
Marc Frischer (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography), Jeffrey King (US Army Corps/Adjunct SkIO), Carla Curran (Savannah State Univ.), and Dionne Hoskins (Savannah State Univ.)
Establishment
of a Shrimp Disease Diagnosis Center and Survey of Georgia Coastal Waters
For Viruses
Marc
Frischer (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography)
Optimizing
Zebra Mussel Control and Preventing Dispersal Through Improved Veliger Detection
Using an rRNA Probe
Marc
Frischer (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography)
Biocomplexity:
Bio-feedback Basis of Self Organization in Planktonic Ecosystems Using Phaeocystis
as a Model Complex Adaptive System
Peter Verity, Marc Frischer (Skidaway Inst. of Oceanography),
Mark Hay (Georgia Inst. of Technology), and Bernard Patten (Univ. of Georgia)
Molecular
Approaches for In Situ Studies of Nitrate Utilization by Marine Bacteria
Marc Frischer, Peter Verity, (Skidaway Inst.
of Oceanography), Debbie Bronk (Virginia Institute of Marine Science), and
Matt Gilligan (Savannah State Univ.)