Education:
BA - Queens College (CUNY) 1955
MS - Univ. Massachusetts (Amherst) 1957
PhD - New York University 1960
Post Doctorate AEC Fellow Oak Ridge 1962
NSF Summer Coarse in Electron Microscopy UC (Berkeley) 1963

Research Interests: 
Symbiosis of algae in Foraminifera (living sands). Marine microbial ecology; microbial food webs; informational energy flow; systematics of protozoa; foraminifera; diatoms; dinoflagellates; microbes and protists as food for first food for larvae of interest in Mariculture. Other aspects of Mariculture

Teaching Interests: 
General Microbiology (inquiry oriented learning, case studies)
Electron Microscopy
Biological Systems for Civil Engineers
Microbial Ecology
Symbiosis

Select Publications:
Illustrated Guide to Protozoa (ed), First and Second Editions, Society of Protozoologists, Allen Press (1985, 2000)

Advances in the Biology of Forminifera, Micropaleontology Press (2000)

Living Sands, Bioscience (1998)

Protocols in Protozoology, Allen Press (1992)

Biology of Forminifera (ed), Academic Press (1991)

Other Interests: 
Stained Glass
Model Rocketry