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BRIAN GREGORY
MITCHELL
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PROFESSIONAL
PREPARATION: 1977
Special Honors in Botany 1987
University of Southern 1987-1988 University
of
Postgraduate Researcher
APPOINTMENTS: 2000-Present Research Biologist, Senior
Lecturer Biological Oceanography UC
Scripps Institution of Oceanography 1994-2000
Associate Research Biologist,
Lecturer Biological Oceanography, UC
Scripps Institution of Oceanography 1990-1992
Program Scientist, Ocean
Biogeochemistry Program, NASA Headquarters, 1988-1994
Assistant Research Biologist, UC 1987-1988
Postgraduate Researcher, UC
PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETIES: American
Society of Limnology and Oceanography, American Association for the Advancement
of Science, The Oceanography Society, American Geophysical
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
1998
Finalist for Provasoli Award, Phycological Society of 2001
Award of Excellence
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., 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. |