Edward Laws , Ph.D.
Professor, Interim Dean

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EDUCATION:

• A.B. 1967 - Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
• Ph.D. 1972 - Chemical Physics, Harvard University, Cambrige, Mass

Research Interests:

• Phytoplankton Ecology
• Aquatic Pollution
• Aquaculture

Grants:

• National Science Foundation - $239,098. Collaborative Research: A Critical Examination of the Relationship Between Marine Phytoplankton Growth Rates and Phosphate Concentrations: Monod or Not. 03/15/07 – 03/14/10
• National Science Foundation - $312,596. An Adaptive Food Web Model for the Epipelagic and Mesopelagic. 08/15/04 – 07/31/08

Recent Publications :

• Laws, E. A. 2008. Food web structure and planktonic predator/prey relationships in two eutrophic European lakes: Stability constraints on carbon fluxes. Limnology and Oceanography 53: 760-772.
• Cassar, N., and E. A. Laws. 2007. Potential contribution of b-carboxylases to photosynthetic carbon isotope fractionation in a marine diatom. Phycologia 46(3): 307-314.
  

• Laws, E. A. 2007. Climate Change, Oceans, and Human Health. Ocean Yearbook 21: 129-175.
  

• Sinigalliano, C. D., Gidley, M. L., Shibata, T., Whitman, D., Dixon, T. H., Laws, E. A., Hou, A., Bachoon, D., Brand, L., Amaral-Zettler, L., Gast, R., Stewad, G. F., Nigro, O. D., Fujioka, R., Betancourt, W. Q., Vithanage, G., Mathews, J., Fleming, L. E., and Solo-Gabriele, H. M. 2007. Impacts of hurricane Katrina on microbial landscape of the New Orleans area. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 9029-9034.
  

• Hood, R. R., E. A. Laws, M. J. Follows, and D. A. Siegel. 2007. Modeling and prediction of marine microbial populations in the genomic era. Oceanography 20(2): 155-165.
  

• Hou, A., B. Qi, E. A. Laws, and R. J. Portier. 2007. Impacts of hurricane Katrina: Water supply, drainage, wastewater systems, and water quality in New Orleans. China Water and Wastewater 24(4): 1-8.
  

• Cassar, N., E. A. Laws, and B. N. Popp. 2006. Carbon fractionation by the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum under nutrient- and light-limited growth conditions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70: 5323-5335.
  

• Hood, R. R., E. A. Laws, R. Armstrong, N. Bates, C. W. Brown, C. Carlson, F. Chai, S. Doney, H. Ducklow, P. Falkowski, R. A. Feely, M. Friedrichs, M. Landry, J. K. Moore, D. Nelson, T. Richardson, B. Salihoglu, M. Schartau, and J. D. Wiggert. 2006. Functional Group Modeling: Progress, Challenges and Prospects. Deep-Sea Research II 53(5-7): 459-512.
  

• Laws, E. A. 2006. Case Study: Cholera. Oceanography 19(2): 53-55.
  

• Hou, A., Laws, E. A., Gambrell, R. P., Bae, H-S., Tan, M., DeLaune, R. D., Li, Y., and Roberts, H. 2006. Pathogen Indicator Microbes and Heavy Metals in Lake Pontchartrain Following Hurricane Katrina. Environmental Science and Technology 40: 5904-5910.

• Laws, E. A., E. Sakshaug, M. Babin, Y. Dandonneau, P. Falkowski, R. Geider, L. Legendre, A. Morel, M. Sondergaard, M. Takahashi, and P. leB Williams. 2002. Photosynthesis and primary productivity in marine ecosystems: Practical aspects and application of techniques. JGOFS Report No. 36. Bergen, Norway, 93 pp.
  
  
• Laws, E. A., B. N. Popp, N. Cassar, and J. Tanimoto. 2002. 13C discrimination patterns in oceanic phytoplankton: The likely influence of CCMs and the implications for palaeoreconstructions. Functional Plant Biology 29: 1-11.
  
  
• Cassar, N., E. A. Laws, B. N. Popp, and R. R. Bidigare. 2002. Sources of inorganic carbon for photosynthesis in marine diatoms. Limnology and Oceanography 47: 1192-1197.
  
  
• Miller, A. J., M. A. Alexander, G. J. Boer, F. Chai, K. Denman, D. J. Erickson, R. Frouin, A. J. Gabric, E. A. Laws, M. R. Lewis, Z. Liu, R. Murtugudde, S. Nakamoto, D. J. Neilson, J. R. Norris, J. C. Ohlmann, R. I. Perry, N. Schneider, K. M. Shell, and A. Timmermann, 2003. Potential feedbacks between Pacific Ocean ecosystems and interdecadal climate variations. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 84, 617-633.
  
  
• Laws, E. A. 2003. Partitioning of microbial biomass in pelagic aquatic communities: Maximum resiliency as a food web organizing construct. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 32: 1-10.
  
  
• Laws, E. A. and L. Ferentinos. 2003. Human impacts on the fluxes of nutrients and sediment in Waimanalo Stream, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science 57(2) (in press).
  
  
• Laws, E. A. 2003. Mesozooplankton grazing and primary production: An alternative assessment. Limnology and Oceanography 48: 1357-1359.
  
  
• Selph, K. E., M. R. Landry, and E. A. Laws. 2003. Heterotrophic nannoflagellate enhancement of bacterial growth through nutrient remineralization in chemostat culture. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 32: 23-37
  
  
• Falkowski, P. G., E. A. Laws, R. T. Barber, and J. Murray. 2003. Phytoplankton and their role in primary, new, and export production. pp 99-121 in M. J.. R. Fasham (Ed.), Ocean Biogeochemistry: The Role of the Ocean Carbon Cycle in Global Change, Springer, Berlin.
  
  
• Laws, E.A. 2000. Aquatic Pollution: An Introductory Text. 3rd edition. Wiley-Interscience. New York. 639