Dr. Chunlei Fan
Assistant Professor
Biology Department
Estuarine Research Center
Morgan State University
1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore MD 21251

(tel) 443-885-4468
email: cfan@jewel.morgan.edu

Research Interest

Aquatic microbial ecology and biogeochemistry in marine and estuarine environments with the focus on nutrients, eutrophication and Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB). Human impacts and eutrophication: monitoring the eutrophication process and HABs events on the watershed scale by using GIS/remote sensing.

Recent Publications

1. Fan, C., Glibert, P.M. Lomas, M.W., 2003 Characterization of urease activity in three marine phytoplankton species. Marine Biology. 142, 949-958.
2. Fan, C., Glibert, P.M. Burkholder, J.M., 2003. Characterization of the affinity for nitrogen, uptake kinetics, and environmental relationships for Prorocentrum minimum in natural blooms and laboratory cultures. Harmful Algae, 2, 283-299.
3. Fan, C., Glibert, P.M. 2004 the effects of light on nitrogen and carbon uptake in two natural dinoflagellate blooms. Harmful Algae. In Press.
4. CA. Heil, PM. Glibert and C. Fan., 2004. Prorocentrum minimum (Pavillard) Schiller – A harmful algal bloom species of growing worldwide importance. Harmful Algae. In Press.
5. Glibert, P.M., Magnien, R., Lomas, M.W., Alexander, J., C. Fan, Haramoto, E., Trice, M., Kana, T.M., 2001. Harmful algal blooms in the Chesapeake and coastal Bays of Maryland, USA: Comparison of 1997, 1998, and 1999 events. Estuaries 24, 875-883.
6. Emma J. Rochelle-Newall, Thomas R. Fisher, C. Fan and Patricia M. Glibert. (1999) Dynamics of Chromospheric Dissolved Organic Matter and Dissolved Organic Carbon in Experimental Mesocosms. International Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol 20(3):627-641.