VITA

Education:

University of Wisconsin - B.A. (Zoology) - 1955 (Honors)

University of Wisconsin - M.S. (Zoology) - 1962

University of Alaska - Ph.D. (Oceanography) - 1965

Memberships:
(professional)

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

The Arctic Institute of North America (Fellow)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)

The Oceanography Society

American Geophysical Union

Sigma Xi

Phi Kappa Phi

Explorers Club (Fellow)

Professional
Employment:

Dean, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 1989-Present

Professor of Marine Science, 1974-present

Director, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1980-1993

Dean, College of Environmental Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1977-1978; 1983-1984

Visiting Professor, National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, Fall 1981

Visiting Professor, University of Turku, Finland, Spring 1976

Assistant/Associate Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1965-1974

Selected
Activities:

U.S. Delegate to North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), 1992-present

Member, Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data, Board on Earth Science and Resources, National Research Council, 1993-present

Alaska State Secretary, Rhodes Scholar Selection Committee

Research
Interests:

Nutrient cycles in aquatic systems, primary productivity, arctic and subarctic limnology; biological oceanography with special emphasis on low trophic level biology; aquatic and terrestrial nitrogen fixation; dynamics of marine marginal ice zone ecosystems.

Relevant
Research
Experience:

Experience in arctic and Antarctic sea-ice areas, with emphasis on ice biology, primary production and nitrogen dynamics; has been involved in the Arctic Research Vessel Design over the past five years; more than 70 papers published in the refereed literature, authored or co-authored.

Selected
Publications:

Niebauer, H. J. and V. Alexander. 1985. Oceanographic frontal structure and biological production at an ice edge. Cont. Shelf Res. 2:367-88.

Müller-Karger, F. and V. Alexander. 1987. Nitrogen dynamics in a marginal sea-ice zone. Cont. Shelf Res. 7:805-823.

Alexander, V. and H. J. Niebauer. 1989. Recent studies of phytoplankton blooms at the ice edge in the Southeast Bering Sea. Rapp. P.-v. Reun. Cons. Int. Explor. Mer 188:98-107.

Niebauer, H. J., V. Alexander, and S. Henrichs. 1990. Physical and biological oceanographic interaction in the spring bloom at the Bering Sea marginal ice zone. J. Geophys. Res. 95:22229-22241.

Gu, B., D. M. Schell, and V. Alexander. 1994. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of a plankton food web in a subarctic lake. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. (in press)

Niebauer, H. J., V. Alexander, and S. Henrichs. 1994. Time series of the spring bloom from the Bering Sea ice edge in spring. Cont. Shelf Res. (in press)

Graduate
Students:

Ph.D.

Binhe Gu

Robert Paul Marshall (Co-chairman)

John C. Mellor

Stephen Charles Whalen

M.S.

Kristin Teje Bezdek (Co-chairman)

Margaret Mary Billington

Robert C. Clasby

Katherine M. Klingensmith

Binhe Gu

Frank Müller-Karger