Currently focused on applied marine science, especially mitigating the transport of invasive and nuisance organisms in ship's ballast water. Evaluating coatings and emerging technologies to prevent marine biofouling. Protocol and method development. Preparation of technical documents (e.g., scientific journal articles and government documents).Applications and methods development in automated quantification of organisms, cell biology, microbiology, immunology; flow cytometry; microscopy (confocal, epifluorescence, light, SEM, TEM); development and application of molecular techniques to study interactions between pathogenic bacteria and host cells, discovery of genes and pathways involved in intracellular survivalSpecialties: Ballast water treatment, marine microbiology and plankton ecology, cell physiology and metabolism, environmental microbiology, flow cytometry and microscopy, development of emerging analytical methods, proposal development