People
Stephen Jones
Ph.D. Yale University 1986
- Research Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Marine Science
Research Areas
Environmental microbiology and toxicology
Research Emphasis
My main focuses of research are: 1) Escherichia coli ribotyping to identify sources of fecal contamination in surface waters; 2) microbial cycling of mercury in estuarine and marine environments;3) impacts of toxic chemicals in the marine environment;4) stormwater-related pollution of estuarine waters. I have many different projects that make up my research program, the majority of which are related to these 4 topic areas.
Some of my new research areas are:
- using DGGE to analyze bacterial communities in natural environments (oysters, depurated and undepurated)
- field evaluation of a stormwater treatment technology for removal of bacterial contaminants
- evaluating the microbial and nutrient composition and fate of effluent from municipal wastewater treatment facilities
- using Enterococcus spp. ribotyping for pollution source tracking in recreational marine waters
- DNA sequence analysis of E.coli
- RNA DNA for application to pollution source tracking
Courses Taught
Chemistry of Soils