Faculty & Staff
Dr. Chales Yarish
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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 Professor
Yarish has published extensively including two co-edited
books entitled "Economically Important Marine Plants
of the Atlantic: Their Biology and Cultivation" and
also "Seaweeds-Their Environment, Biogeography and
Ecophysiology." He has supervised Masters and Doctoral
students at the University of Connecticut and other institutions.
He has served with many organizations including the International
Executive Service Corps' Aquacultural Project in Kenya,
member of the Organizing Committee & the Executive
Secretariat for the Vth International Phycological Congress,
Qingdao, People's Republic of China (1994) and Advisory
Board of the Institute of BioSciences, National Research
Council of Canada (1990-1995). Prof. Yarish received the
1992 Marinalg Award's First Prize (at the XIVth International
Seaweed Symposium, Brittany, France) for his work in East
Africa (Kenya) judged to be the most useful to the economic
development of the world seaweed industry. He has also
been a national lecturer for the Phycological Society
of America (1993-1995), its Secretary, and member of the
Society's Executive Committee (1993-1996). He was the
Vice President (2000), President (2001) and Past President
(2002) of the Phycological Society of America and a member
of the Society's Executive Committee (2000-2002). He is
currently the chair of the Phycological Society of America’s
Award of Excellence Committee. He is also on the Executive
Committee of the Northeast Algal Society (1999-2005) as
a member at large and was the senior co-convener of the
2004 annual meetings at the University of Connecticut
(Groton, CT, April 23-25, 2004). Recently he was the senior
organizer and session co-chair of invited symposium entitled
“Seaweed Culture and Integrated Aquaculture Developments”
at “Aquaculture – An Ecologically Sustainable
and Profitable Venture for The 2004 Meetings of the World
Aquaculture Society's Aquaculture; invited participant
to the 2004 Aquaculture Biotech workshop sponsored by
the Martin Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland,
Galway and the RI/CT Sea Grant College Programs where
he gave a presentation entitled “Seaweed cultivation
and biotechnology: Opportunities for integrating seaweeds
in aquaculture systems for bioremediation and industry
diversification”; and the senior organizer and co-convener
a symposium on “Marine plant aquaculture in the
Northeast” for the 2004 Northeast Conference and
Exposition (NACE). He continues to be the Co-Chairman
of the Science Technical Advisory Committee for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's Long Island Sound Study
and assists the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research,
NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce on matters dealing with
aquaculture in the People's Republic of China, South Korea
and Japan. |
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology
University of Connecticut at Stamford
1 University Place
Stamford, CT 06901-2315 |
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Office: 3.60
Phone: (203) 251-8432
Email: Charles.Yarish@uconn.edu |
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| Jang Kyun Kim |
| Graduate Student, Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology |
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a CV |
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 Currently,
Jang Kim is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at the University of Connecticut
under the supervision of Professor Charles Yarish. He
is working on the ecophysiology of Porphyra species from
coastal New England, focusing on the effects of desiccation
and temperature on the mechanisms of nutrient uptake and
photosynthesis over a horizontal, temporal and spatial
time scales.
Jang has worked at the Inchon Development Institute (IDI)
of Inchon Metropolitan City, Korea. He was involved in
two projects entitled: “Long-term Comprehensive
Plan on Environmental Conservation of Inchon,” and
“2020 Inchon Dream.” During that time, he
established long-term comprehensive marine environmental
conservation programs for the coastal area of Inchon.
That research included the development of a Geographic
Information System (GIS) to include the distribution of
aquatic marine animals and algae, marine pollutants and
their sources using ArcInfo and ArcView. He also has worked
at the Korean Ocean Research & Development Institute
(KORDI) where he studied the impacts of the ozone depletion
and global warming on Antarctic marine algae and identified
indicator phytoplankton species for environmental change. |
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology
University of Connecticut at Stamford
1 University Place
Stamford, CT 06901-2315 |
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Phone: 203-251-9502
Fax: 203-251-8592
Email: jang.kim@uconn.edu |
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