7fcde7 square The Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, SOEST
Paul F. Kemp

Specialist

Associate Director, C-MORE 
School of Ocean and Earth Science
University of Hawaii
Honolulu HI 96822
Phone: (808) 956-6220
Fax: (702) 974-3170

E-mail: paul.kemp@hawaii.edu

 

 

Education

1976  B.S. Oceanography, University of Washington.

1976   B.A. B.A. Zoology,  University of Washington.

1979   M.S. Oceanography, Oregon State Universiy.
            Minor: Population Ecology.

1985    Ph.D. Oceanography, Oregon State Universiy. Minor: Statistics.

 

Professional Background

1983-1985   Research Associate, Oregon State University.

1985-1987   University of Georgia Marine Institute Postdoctoral Associate.

1987-1989   Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

1989-1992   Associate Oceanographer, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

1989              Visiting Scholar, Louisiana State University and Southeastern Louisiana University.

1990-1995    Adjunct Assistant Professor, SUNY, Marine Sciences Research Center.

1991-1992     Visiting Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences.

1992-1996    Oceanographer, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

1993-1996    Deputy Division Head, OASD, Department of Applied Science.

1996-1999    Journal of Sea Research, Co-Editor.

1995-2006    Research Professor, SBU, Marine Sciences Research Center.

1995-present  American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Web Editor.

2002-present  Editor-in-Chief, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods.

2006-present  Adjunct Research Professor, SBU, Marine Sciences Research Center.

2006-present  Associate Director, Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education.

Research Interests

Growth, activity and diversity of marine microbes; biosensor applications in microbial oceanography; molecular ecology of marine bacteria.

Recent Presentations

Achilles, K, PF Kemp. 2010.  Eco-DAS (Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences):  Young Scientists Shaping the Future of Aquatic Research.  Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland OR. 

Baker, L. J.; Kemp, P. F.; 2011.  EXPLORING THE BACTERIA-DIATOM METAORGANISM USING SINGLE-CELL WHOLE GENOME AMPLIFICATION.  ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Puerto Rico.

Aller, J. Y.; Chistoserdov, A. Y.; Kemp, P. F.; 2011.  HIGH BACTERIAL PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY AND FUNCTIONAL REDUNDANCY ALLOW FLUIDIZED MUDS TO OPERATE AS EFFICIENT BIOGEOCHEMICAL REACTORS. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Puerto Rico.

Selected Publications

J. Y. Aller, R. C. Aller, P. F. Kemp, A. Y. Chistoserdov and V. M. Madrid.  2010. Fluidized muds: a novel setting for the generation of biosphere diversity through geologic time.  Geobiology. 8: 169–178.

Kemp, P.F. (Ed.).  2010.  Eco-DAS VIII Symposium Proceedings. Am. Soc. Limnol. Oceanogr. 165 pp.   

B.C. Bruno, K. Achilles, K. Weersing, G. Walker, P. Kemp.  2008. Professional Development at the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE).  The Earth Scientist 27 (2): 7-10.

Aller, J.Y. and P.F. Kemp. 2008. Are Archaea inherently less diverse than Bacteria in the same environments? FEMS Microbial Ecology 65:74-87.

Dhadwal, H. S., B. Mukherjee, P. Kemp, J. Aller, Y.  Liu, and J. Radway, 2007. A Dual Detector Capillary Waveguide Biosensor for Detection and Quantification of Hybridized Target. Analytica Chimica Acta 598: 147-154.

D'Hondt, S, Inagaki, F, Ferdelman, T, Jørgensen, B.B., Kato, K, Kemp, P, Sobecky, P, Sogin, M, and Takai, K, 2007. Exploring Subseafloor Life with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Drilling, September 2007, No. 5, p. 26-37, doi:10.2204/iodp.sd.5.03.2007.

Aller, J.Y., M.M. Kuznetsova, C.J. Jahns, P.F. Kemp. 2005. Enrichment of viruses and bacteria in the sea surface microlayer and marine aerosols. Journal of Aerosol Science 36(5/6): 801-812.

Kemp, P.F., J.Y. Aller.  2004. Bacterial diversity in aquatic and other environments: what 16S rDNA libraries can tell us.  FEMS Microbiology Ecology 47: 161-171.

Kemp, P.F., J.Y. Aller. 2004. Estimating prokaryotic diversity: When are 16S rDNA libraries large enough?  Limnol. Oceanogr.: Methods 2:114-125.

Dhadwal, H.S, P.F. Kemp, J.Y. Aller, and M.M. Dantzler.  2004.  Capillary waveguide nucleic acid based biosensor, Analytica Chimica Acta 501:205–217.

Kerkhof, L. and P.F. Kemp.  1999.  Small ribosomal RNA content in marine Proteobacteria during non-steady state growth.  FEMS Microbiology Ecology 30:253-260.

Rappe, M.S., Kemp, P.F., and Giovannoni, S.J.  1997.  Phylogenetic diversity of marine coastal picoplankton 16S rRNA genes cloned from the continental shelf off Cape Hatteras, N.C.  Limnol. Oceanogr. 42:811-826.

Rappe, M.S., Kemp, P.F., and Giovannoni, S.J.  1995.  Abundant chromophyte plastid 16S ribosomal RNA genes found in a clone library from Atlantic Ocean seawater.  J. Phycology 31: 979-988.

Lee, S. and  P.F. Kemp.  1994.  Single-cell RNA content of natural marine planktonic bacteria measured by hybridization with multiple 16S rRNA-targeted fluorescent probes.  Limnol. Oceanogr. 39: 869-879.

Recent research and publication collaborators

R.C. Aller, J.Y. Aller, H.S. Dhadwal, M. Kuznetsova, J. Mak, A. Chistoserdov, E. Delong, J. Zehr, S. Chisholm, C. Scholin, J. Waterbury, E. Boyle, S. Doney, S. Dyhrman, D. Karl, Z. Kolber, E. Laws, R. Letelier, D. Repeta, M Saito, C. Taylor, P. Sobecky, S. D’Hondt, M. Sogin, F. Inagaki, B. Jorgensen, K. Takai, T. Ferdelman, K. Kato, C. Jahns

Current Students

Y. Liu (Stony Brook University), A. Valdez (Stony Brook University), A. Fong (University of Hawaii), L. Baker (University of Hawaii)