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Malcolm McFarland

Coastal Institute Building, room 221

malcolm@gso.uri.edu

Educational Background

BA MS

Clark University University of Rhode Island

1996 2002

Areas of Specialization

Research

I am broadly interested in the ecology and evolution of planktonic marine diatoms. I have recently been involved with studies of the fine scale vertical distribution of phytoplankton in Monterey Bay, CA. My dissertation research is focused on the bio-optical properties of diatoms and how these characteristics relate to the growth, distribution and phylogeny of species.

Presentations:

Malcolm McFarland, Jan Rines, Percy Donaghay, and James Sullivan. 2007. Fine Scale Distribution and Abundance of Large and Small Phytoplankton in Monterey Bay, CA. Phycological Society of America. Providence, RI.
Malcolm McFarland and Jan Rines. 2007.Automated Image Analysis of Autotrophic Picoplankton. Northeast Algal Society. Narragansett, RI.
Malcolm McFarland and James Yoder. 2001. Inherent Optical Properties of Narragansett, RI During a Spring Bloom. The Oceanography Society Biennial Scientific Meeting. Miami Beach, FL.