BRIAN GREGORY MITCHELL
SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA 92093-0218

Tel.: (858) 534 2687

Fax: (858) 534 2997

Email: gmitchell@ucsd.edu

 

             

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:

 

1977                University of Texas at Austin, Aquatic Biology with honors, B.S

                              Special Honors in Botany

1987                University of Southern California, Biology (Biological Oceanography), Ph.D.

1987-1988       University of San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,

                              Postgraduate Researcher

             

APPOINTMENTS:

 

2000-Present     Research Biologist, Senior Lecturer Biological Oceanography UC San Diego,

                              Scripps Institution of Oceanography

1994-2000         Associate Research Biologist, Lecturer Biological Oceanography, UC San Diego,

                              Scripps Institution of Oceanography

1990-1992         Program Scientist, Ocean Biogeochemistry Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D. C.; Program Scientist, SeaWiFS

1988-1994         Assistant Research Biologist, UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

1987-1988         Postgraduate Researcher, UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

             

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: 

 

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Oceanography Society, American Geophysical Union, Sigma Xi

             

SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIHP:

 

US JGOFS Principal Investigator; Member of SeaWiFS, SIMBIOS, NASDA GLI Science Teams; Principal Investigator for GLI standard products (chlorophyll-a, K490 and CDOM); Editor Coastal Zone Color Scanner special issue of Journal of Geophysical Research; Service as reviewer for numerous science journals and research agencies; Member of Ocean Studies Board of the National Research Council 1995-1998; Planning Committee for National Ocean Carbon Program Coastal Margins initiative.

             

AWARDS:

 

1970 National Merit Scholarship Letter of Commendation

1977 University of Texas Special Honors in Botany

1998 Finalist for Provasoli Award, Phycological Society of America.

2001 Award of Excellence 2nd Place for paper presented at the XVI International Seaweed Symposium

             

PUBLICATIONS:

 

More than 50 articles in peer reviewed scientific journals and more than 100 conference proceedings or abstracts of work published for national or international scientific meetings

             

TEACHING

 

University of California San Diego Senior Biology Lecturer, advisor of 4 PhD and 3 MS students who have matriculated and 1 PhD candidate;  committee member for 10 matriculated PhDs students and 4 PhD candidates; innovative educator for undergraduate research with more than 15 students advised;  lecturer in K-12 classes in the San Diego Unified School District.


 

SELECTION OF PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES (out of more than 50)

 

Kahru, M. and B.G. Mitchell (1999) Empirical chlorophyll algorithm and preliminary SeaWiFS validation for the California Current. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 20(17): 3,423-3,429

Kahru, M. and B.G. Mitchell (1998) Spectral reflectance and absorption of a massive red tide off Southern California. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 21,601-21,609

Kahru, M. and B. G. Mitchell (2000) Influence of the 1997-98 El Niño on the surface chlorophyll in the California Current. Geophysical Research Letters, 27(18): 2937-2940.

Kahru, M. and B. G. Mitchell (2002) Influence of the El Nino –La Nina cycle on satellite-derived primary production in the California Current.  Geophysical Research Letters, 29(17), 27-1-28-4.

Mitchell, B.G. and D.A. Kiefer (1988)a Chlorophyll a specific absorption and fluorescence excitation spectra for light-limited phytoplankton. Deep-Sea Research, 35: 639-663.

Mitchell, B.G. and O. Holm-Hansen (1991) Observations and modeling of the Antarctic phytoplankton crop in relation to mixing depth.  Deep-Sea Research, 38(8/9): 981-1,007.

Mitchell, B.G. and O. Holm-Hansen (1991) Bio-optical properties of Antarctic Peninsula waters:  Differentiation from temperate ocean models.  Deep-Sea Research, 38(8/9): 1,009-1,028.

Mitchell, B.G. (1992) Predictive bio-optical relationships for polar oceans and marginal ice zones. Journal of Marine Systems, 3: 91-105.

Mitchell, B.G., E.A. Brody, E-N. Yeh, C.R. McClain, J. Comiso, and N. Maynard (1991) Meridional zonation of the Barents Sea ecosystem inferred from in situ and satellite observations.  Polar Research, 10(1): 147-162.

Mitchell, B.G., E.A. Brody, O. Holm-Hansen, C.R. McClain, and J. Bishop (1992) Light limitation of phytoplankton biomass and macro-nutrient utilization in the Southern Ocean.  Limnology and Oceanography, 36(8): 1,662-1,677.

Moisan, T.A. and B.G. Mitchell (1999) Photophysiological Acclimation of Phaeocystis antarctica Karsten under Light Limitation.  Limnology and Oceanography, 44(2): 247-258

Moisan, T.A. and B.G. Mitchell (2001) UV absorption by mycosporine-like amino acids in Phaeocystis antarctica Karsten induced by photosynthetically available radiation.  Marine Biology, 138: 217-227.

O'Reilly, J.E., S. Maritorena, B.G. Mitchell, D.A. Siegel, K.L. Carder, S.A. Garver, M. Kahru and C. McClain (1998) Ocean color chlorophyll algorithms for SeaWiFS. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 24,937-24,953

Reynolds, R., D. Stramski, and B.G. Mitchell (2001) A chlorophyll-dependent semi analytical reflectance model derived from field measurements of absorption and backscattering coefficients within the Southern Ocean.  Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(C4): 7125-7138.

Sosik, H.M. and B.G. Mitchell (1991) Absorption, fluorescence and quantum yield for growth in nitrogen-limited Dunalliella tertiolecta. Limnology and Oceanography, 36(5): 910-922

Sosik, H. M. and B.G. Mitchell (1994) Effects of temperature on growth, light absorption, and quantum yield in Dunaliella tertiolecta (Chlorophyceae).  Journal of Phycology, 30: 833-840.

Sosik, H.M. and B.G. Mitchell (1995) Light absorption by phytoplankton, photosynthetic pigments, and detritus in the California Current System. Deep-Sea Research I, 42(10): 1,717-1,748

Stramski, D. R.A. Reynolds, M. Kahru & B.G. Mitchell (1999) Estimation of particulate organic carbon in the Ocean from satellite remote sensing.  Science, 285: 239-242.

Vernet, M., E.A. Brody, O. Holm-Hansen and B.G. Mitchell (1994) The response of Antarctic phytoplankton to ultraviolet radiation:  Absorption, photosynthesis and taxonomic composition.  Antarctic Research Series, 62: 143-158.

 

 

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