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Dr. Kenneth P. Sebens Dr. Sebens received his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1977. During his dissertation research, Dr. Sebens developed a mathematical model of energetics and growth dynamics for marine invertebrates with indeterminate growth, and tested the model with field data on sea anemone populations in Washington State. This model was later published in the journal Ecology (1982), and resulted in his receiving the George Mercer Award from the Ecological Society of America in 1983, for Outstanding Ecological Research Published in the United States or Canada. While at the University of Washington, Dr. Sebens also conducted research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institutes laboratories in Panama, on the ecology of tropical sea anemones and zoanthids and their interactions with reef corals. In 1977, Dr. Sebens was hired as Assistant Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Dr. Sebens was promoted to Associate Professor in 1982, and served as Assistant and Associate Curator in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology during that time. While at Harvard, Dr. Sebens began long term research on community ecology in the New England rocky subtidal zone, with funding from N.S.F. that has continued from 1978 to the present. The field research Dr. Sebens initiated in 1978 has been continued without interruption to the present, providing one of the few long-term studies of rocky shore ecology in the world. his research on coral reef ecology also continued, with funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (National Undersea Research Program) to conduct research using the Hydrolab underwater laboratory in St. Croix, U.S.V.I., (1984) on the effects of water movement on coral energetics. In 1985, Dr. Sebens became Director of Northeastern University's Marine Science Center at Nahant, MA, and Professor in Northeaster's Department of Biology in 1986. Dr. Sebens continued subtidal community research at Nahant and coral reef research in Jamaica, Florida and St. Croix. Dr. Sebens also collaborated on (N.U.R.P. funded) research in the outer Gulf of Maine (with J. Witman). In 1991 Dr. Sebens spent a six month sabbatical at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (N.S.F. award), conducting research on corals of the Great Barrier Reef. At Northeastern, Dr. Sebens designed and implemented an expanded version of the East-West Marine Biology Program. This unique advanced undergraduate experience allowed students to spend a year taking courses and conducting research in Oregon, Jamaica, and Massachusetts. Dr. Sebens moved to the University of Maryland in 1992, as Director of the Marine, Estuarine, Environmental Sciences Graduate Program and Professor in the Department of Zoology. The M.E.E.S. Program is one of the nations largest environmental graduate programs (260 graduate students, 130 faculty). During 1992-1997, Dr. Sebens effected a substantial reorganization of the program around six areas of concentration where the faculty had particular strength. One of those areas (Oceanography) was rated in the top ten nationally (Ph.D. Programs) by the National Research Council (1995 report). Dr. Sebens has continued research at his field sites in Massachusetts, and in the Caribbean. In 1997, Dr. Sebens stepped down as Director of the M.E.E.S. Program to spend full time as Professor in the Department of Biology. |
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