CHRISTOPHER HEWES

Research Affiliate
INTEGR OCEANOGRAPHY DIV

Degrees

  • B.A. Biology, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA
  • M.A. Biology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, USA
  • Dr. Philos., University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Honors and Awards

  • Antarctic Service Medal, 1983.
  • Sponsored scientist: SCOR/SCAR 4th International Symposium on Antarctic Biology; Wilderness, S.A. 1983.
  • NAVF Stipiend (Dr. G. Knutsen, University of Bergen, Norway). Temperturvirkning på mikroalgers fotosyntese. Deres fotoinhibering og kvanteubytte. 1988-1991.
  • Provasoli Award nominee for Hewes et al., 1998, J. Phycol. 34(6): 945-951. 1999.

Contributions to Promoting Diversity: For 1997-2008, I was involved with the NOAA Antarctic Marine Living Resources program as the primary scientist aboard ship (Russian vessel) conducting phytoplankton ecology studies in the Drake Passage, Antarctica, for 2-3 months per year. Our collaboration with Chilean Professors involved their students participating in our expeditions, during which I taught and mentored various analytical and methodological techniques for phytoplankton (and microbial) ecology as performed at sea.

Other Activities

1. Development of methods

  1. Hybrid pond/bioreactor for mass algal cultivation  
  2. Algal size-class determination (Hewes, 2009).  
  3. Experimental algal culture (Hopkinson et al., 2007).  
  4. In vivo microspectrophotometric analysis of single cells (Hewes et al., 1998).  
  5. Quantitative nanoplankton analysis: FTF technique (Hewes and Holm-Hansen, 1983; Hewes et al., 1984).  
  6. Synthetic marine algal culture media (Schmidt, A.M., M.A. Borowitzka, and B.E. Volcani. 1981. Morphogenesis and Biochemistry of Diatom Cell Walls. In (Kiermayer, O., ed.) Cytomorphogenesis in Plants, Cell Biol. Monogr. 8: 63-97).

2.Database construction

  1. Twenty years of weekly phytoplankton species abundances from five Pacific coastal stations as recorded by W.E. Allen (1920-1940). SIO Ref: No. 01-12; http://repositories.cdlib.org/sio/techreport/1.  
  2. Eighteen years of oceanographic and phytoplankton data from the South Shetland Islands area, Antarctica (Antarctic Marine Living Resources program, NOAA).

3. Teaching/supervising during various journeys/expeditions in Europe, South America and Antarctica.