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Professor GALLAGHER, EUGENE D. (Boston)
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences

Phone: (617) 287-7453
Email: Eugene.Gallagher@umb.edu

Teaching the following courses:

Biological Oceanographic Processes

Benthic Boundaries

Applied Statistics

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Education:
1983 - Ph.D., School of Oceanography, University of Washington

Professional History:
1989 - present - Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA

1994 - 1995 - Visiting Associate Professor, Rutgers University, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ

1983 - 1989 - Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA

1985 - 1988 - Instructor, MBL, Marine Ecology Course, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

1983 - 1985 - Independent Investigator, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

Current Research Support:
Virginian Province Macroinfaunal Community Structure: PCA - H Analyses and an Assessment of Pollution Degradation Indices Funded as a cooperative agreement between the EPA and the University of Rhode Island and Rutgers University (1994 - 1997)

NSF Graduate Research Training Grant in Biodiversity 1996 - 1998. Awarded to the Department of Biology. [Co - PI with M. Rex & K. Bawa]

Environmental Effects of Capping Dredged Material 1997 - 1999 [Co - PI with E. Adams, P. Gschwend, J. Pederson, T. Ford, O. Madsen] Mathematical Modeling; Polychaete Biology.

Selected Publications:
Trueblood, D. D, E. D. Gallagher, and D. M. Gould. 1994. The three stages of seasonal succession on the Savin Hill Cove mudflat, Boston Harbor. Limnol. Oceanography. 39: 1440 - 1454.

Epstein, S. S. and E. D. Gallagher. 1992. Evidence for facilitation and inhibition of ciliate population growth by meiofauna and macrofauna on a temperate sandflat. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 155: 27 - 39.

Gallagher, E.D., G. B. Gardner, and P. A. Jumars. 1990. Competition among the pioneers in a seasonal soft - bottom benthic succession: field experiments and analysis of the Gilpin - Ayala model. Oecologia 83: 427 - 442.

Gould, D. M. and E. D. Gallagher. 1990. Field measurement of specific growth rate, biomass and primary production of benthic diatoms of Savin Hill Cove, Boston. Limnology & Oceanography 35: 1757 - 1770.