Researcher

Education

• BS 1976 - Biology (Honors 1^st Class), Univ. of Victoria, Canada
• PhD 1980 -  Biological Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Research Interests

• Global climate change – impact, adaptation and mitigation
• Bio-renewable fuels
• Large-scale photobioreactor technology for production of photosynthetic microbes
• Life histories, ecology, physiology and cultivation of zooplankton
• Synoptic mapping and remote sensing of zooplankton

Teaching Activities

Ten Selected Publications

Huntley, M.E. and D.G. Redalje, Global-scale CO₂ mitigation and renewable fuel production from photosynthetic microbes: A new appraisal.  Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change  [in review]

                 Huntley, M.E., M.D.G. Lopez and M. Zhou, Seasonal dynamics and ecosystem impact of mesozooplankton at Station ALOHA, based on OPC measurements.  Deep-Sea Research [accepted pending review of revisions]

                 Huntley, M. and M. Zhou, Influence of animals on turbulence in the sea, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 273: 65-79, 2004

                 Guérin, M.,  M.E. Huntley and M. Olaizola, Haematococcus astaxanthin, health and nutritional applications.  Trends in Biotechnology, 21: 210-216, 2003.

Olaizola, M. and M.E. Huntley, Recent advances in commercial production of astaxanthin from microalgae, Recent Advances in Marine Biotechnology, 9: 143-164, 2002.

                 Harris, R., P. Wiebe, J. Lenz, H.-R. Skjoldal and M.E. Huntley (eds.) Zooplankton Methodology Manual.  Academic Press, San Diego.  684 pp., 2000.

                 Huntley, M.E., A. Gonzalez, Y. Zhu, M. Zhou and X. Irigoien, Zooplankton dynamics in a mesoscale eddy-jet system off California.  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 201: 165-178, 2000

                 Pinca, S. and M.E. Huntley, Spatial organization of particle size composition in an eddy--jet system off California, Deep-Sea Research I, 47: 973-996, 2000.

Research Funding

Economics of microbial biofuels.  $168,620; U.S. Department of Energy and Center for Sustainable Future; Sep 2004 – Aug 2005 (Co-PI: C. Barry Raleigh)

Lagrangian bio-acoustic drifters: A new approach to remote-sensing of zooplankton in the global ocean.  $200,000; U.S. National Science Foundation (Oceanographic Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination Program); to begin Oct 2004

Profiling biophysical instrument package for high-speed synoptic mapping.  $405,000; U.S. National Science Foundation, Jan 2004 (SOEST request for ship support)

GLOBEC: Zooplankton population dynamics in the California Current region.  $500,000; U.S. National Science Foundation, (Biological Oceanography Program), May 2000 – Apr 2005.

Carbon dioxide sequestration by photosynthetic microbes.  $1,700,000; U.S. Department of Energy, Jan 2001 – Dec 2003.  (PI for award to Aquasearch, included subcontract to S. Masutani, HNEI)

A zooplankton population dynamics model in the California Current region.  $240,000; U.S. National Science Foundation, (Biological Oceanography Program), Oct 1997 – Sep 2000.

US-JGOFS Southern Ocean Program: Zooplankton studies.  $600,000; U.S. National Science Foundation (Office of Polar Programs), Jul 1996 – Sep 1999 (Co-PI: M. Zhou).