David L Kirchman

School of Marine Science & Policy

Phone: (302) 645-4375

Email: kirchman@udel.edu

Office: 222 Cannon Marine Studies Lab

• Specializes in environmental microbiology.
• Major research interests include microbial ecology of bacteria in aquatic environments.
• Measures the oceanic carbon cycle and microbes role in it.
• Can broadly discuss Arctic environments, climate change and its effects on oceanic biology.

Web Site:
http://www.ceoe.udel.edu/people/profile.aspx?kirchman

Title:
Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Biosciences

UDaily Articles:
UD, French researchers hold ocean science workshop
Kirchman named an American Academy of Microbiology fellow
Researcher studies how tiny ocean life-forms affect climate change
Marine scientist's projects are poles apart
Polar bear lends a hand to Arctic researchers

Keywords:
Arctic, climate change, environmental, marine, microbiology, ocean