EBME: Research Team Member

Kevin D. Wyman, M.S. Laboratory Researcher Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences

Kevin D. Wyman is a Laboratory Researcher in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University. He has shared research interests with and provided technical support for Dr. Paul Falkowski and his colleagues for almost two decades. Mr. Wyman was born in Seattle, WA in 1954 and attended the University of Washington from 1972-1977. There, he worked as a Student Research Assistant for Dr. Tom English while obtaining a B.Sc. degree with majors in oceanography and zoology. During this time he participated in field studies of the impact of pulp mill effluents on the marine environment and spent three months on an Arctic Ocean Ice encampment assisting in an environmental assessment of the arctic planktonic ecosystem. In addition to this work, Mr. Wyman worked part-time as an electronic service technician for a consumer electronics repair business. Following graduation, he worked as a full time oceanographic technician for Dr. English's group with responsibility for taxonomic identification of plankton, benthic invertebrates, icthyoplankton, and demersal fishes. In 1980, Mr. Wyman obtained a M.S. degree in Marine Environmental Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His thesis title was: The Role of Phytoplankton in the Dynamics of PCB Uptake, Depuration, and Toxicity among Small Estuarine Copepods (genus Acartia). From 1980 to 1998, he worked in the Oceanographic Sciences Division at Brookhaven National Lab in Upton, NY. Until 1981, he provided technical support for Dr. Michael Dagg with responsibility for field sampling and laboratory experiments designed to develop gut fluorescence techniques for measuring zooplankton ingestion rates. In 1981, Mr. Wyman began working in Dr. Falkowski's lab with responsibility for field sampling and laboratory experiments investigating physiology, biophysics, biochemistry, and molecular processes in marine phytoplankton. In 1998, he accepted Dr. Falkowski's invitation to join his group at Rutgers University and continue their long-standing association. During the course of his career, Mr. Wyman has obtained a wide variety of experiences with numerous instruments, techniques, and oceanographic field operations. He has working experience with: UV/Vis spectroscopy, FRR fluorometry, spectrofluorometry, thermoluminescence, radioisotope work, oxygen electrode techniques, POC/PON analysis, HPLC, automated nutrient analysis, PAGE and immunoblotting, DNA sequencing, statistical analysis, basic computer programming and troubleshooting, and simple electronic design and troubleshooting. He has directly participated in many oceanographic field operations including CTD operations, mooring and drifter buoy deployment and recovery, benthic sampling, and plankton collection. His hobbies include Amateur Radio, SCUBA diving, and underwater photography. Mr. Wyman now lives in East Brunswick, NJ with his wife Liti and two children (Lani and Gil).