Science Team > F. Gerald (Gerry) PlumleyF. Gerald (Gerry) Plumley
Director of Education/Senior Research
Scientist/Deputy Director
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, Inc.
Ferry Reach, St. George’s GE01, Bermuda
Email: Gerald.Plumley@bios.edu
Tel 1.441.297.1880 xtn 217
FAX 1.441.297.8143
BIOS web Site: www.bios.edu
Home page: http://www.bios.edu/About_BBSR/faculty/plumley/plumley.html
Professional Preparation
Mars Hill College
Auburn University
University of Georgia
University of Georgia
B.S.1973BiologyM.S.1978BotanyPh.D.1983BotanyPostdoc
1983-87Molecular Biology/Biochemistry
Appointments
Deputy Director of BIOS, 2005 - present
Director of Education, Senior Research Scientist, BIOS, 2004 - present
Professor of Marine Science and Biochemistry, University of Alaska, 2001 - 2004
Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Alaska, 1993 - 2001
Associate Professor of Marine Science, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska, 1988 - 2001
Assistant Research Scientist, Botany Department, University of Georgia, 1987-1988
Post-Doctoral Associate, University of Georgia, 1983-1987
Instructor, General Botany 121, University of Georgia, 1980
Research Technician, Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, GA., 1973-1975
Professional Activities
Panel Member, NSF-LTER (2007)
Panel Member, NSF-REU Program (2006)
Associate Editor, Journal of Phycology (2002 - 2005)
Panel Member, NSF-NOAA ECOHAB
Panel Member, NSF-NIEHS Oceans and Human Health
Deputy Director, Alaska BRIN (NIH) 2001 - 2004
Director, Research Core, Alaska BRIN (NIH) 2001 - 2004
Alaska EPSCoR State Steering Committee (NSF) 1999 - 2004
Alaska State-wide SCOR Committee 1999 - 2004
University of Alaska Health State-wide Planning Committee 2002 - 2004
University of Alaska Fairbanks Master Planning Committee 2003 - 2004
Awards
Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, 1980
Grant-in-Aid to Research, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 1980
Research Scholarship, Slocum Lunz Foundation, Inc., 1980-81
Harold C. Bold Award, Outstanding Student Research Presentation, Phycological Society of America, 1983
Outstanding Dissertation Award, Sigma Xi, University of Georgia Chapter, 1983
The University of Georgia Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation Award, 1983
Associated Western Universities-Department of Energy Faculty Fellowship, 1989 (declined)
Approximately $31.5M in grant awards as PI or Co-PI from NSF, NIH, NOAA, NASA, and other federal,
state, and private sources since 1983; recent awards include:
Open Ocean and Sub-tropical Marine Research Experiences for Undergraduates at Bermuda Biological
Station for Research; 2004 - 2005; $132,395; NSF-REU (PI post departure of Hank Trapido-Rosenthal)
Research Experiences in Open Ocean and Subtropical Marine Environments of Bermuda; 2006 - 2009
$307,671; NSF-REU (PI, with Samantha de Putron as Co-PI)
Nippon Foundation - POGO Centre of Excellence in Oceanography; 2008 - 2013; $2,470,000;
Nippon Foundation (PI, with 8 BIOS faculty as Co-PIs)
Select Publications
Plumley, F.G. Marine algal toxins: biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. 1997. Limnol. Oceanogr. 42:1240-1251.
Horner, R., D.L. Garrison, and F.G. Plumley. 1997. Harmful Algal Blooms and other Red Tide Problems on the U. S. West Coast. In D.M. Anderson and D.L. Garrison (eds.) Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms. Limnol. Oceanogr. 42:1076-1088.
Plumley, F.G., Z. Wei, T.B. Toivanen, G.J. Doucette and S. Franca. 1999. Tn5 mutagenesis of Pseudomonas stutzeri SF/PS, a bacterium associated with Alexandrium lusitanicum (Dinophyceae) and paralytic shellfish poisoning. J. Phycol. 35:1390-1396.
Baker, T.R., G.J. Doucette, C.L. Powell, G.L. Boyer and F.G. Plumley. 2003. GTX4 Imposters: Character-ization of fluorescent compounds synthesized by Pseudomonas stutzeri SF/PS and Pseudomonas/ Alteromonas PTB-1, symbionts of saxitoxin-producing Alexandrium spp. Toxicon 41:339-347.
Plumley, F.G. 2001. Purification of an enzyme involved in saxitoxin synthesis. J. Phycol. 37: 926-28.
Kolber, Z.S., F.G. Plumley, A.S. Lang, J.T. Beatty, R.E. Blankenship, C.L. VanDover, C. Vetriani, M. Koblizek, C. Rathgeber and P.G. Falkowski 2001. Contribution of aerobic photoheterotrophic bacteria to the carbon cycle in the ocean. Science, 292(5526): 2492-2495.
Gradinger, R.R., K. Meiners, F.G. Plumley, Q. Zhang, B.A. Bluhm. 2005. Abundance and composition of the sea ice meiofauna in off-shore pack ice of the Beaufort Gyre in summer 2002 and 2003. Polar Biology 28:171-181.
Beatty, J.T., Overmann, J., Lince, M.T., Manske, A.K., Lang, A.S., Blankenship, R.E., Van Dover, C.L., Martinson, T.A., and Plumley, F.G. 2005. An obligately photosynthetic bacterial anaerobe from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 9306-10.
Plumley, F.G., J. Matweyou, and R. RaLonde. 2003. Harmful algal blooms in Alaska. In: Ecosystems Considerations for 2004. NPFMC Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (SAFE).
Gradinger, R.R., K. Meiners, F.G. Plumley, Q. Zhang, B.A. Bluhm. 2005. Abundance and composition of the sea ice meiofauna in off-shore pack ice of the Beaufort Gyre in summer 2002 and 2003. Polar Biology 28:171-181.
Synergistic Activities
PI, NSF-REU Program in Bermuda (2004 - Present); Education Director at BBSR (2004 - present);
Program Coordinator, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF; 1992 - 2004);
Program Head, Graduate Program in Marine Science and Limnology (2003 - 2004);
Graduate Selection Committees for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Oceanography/Marine Biology at UAF (1995 - 2004); Head of the Undergraduate Internship Program and the Undergraduate Research Program, Alaska BRIN (2001 - 2004);
Lectured and gave seminar broadly across Alaska in attempts to foster communication and understanding between the University and either the maritime or health services communities and/or Native peoples
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