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Todd Kana, Ph.D.

Location:

Horn Point Laboratory

Research Topics:

Biogeochemistry and Environmental Chemistry

Research Interests:

Regulation of photosynthesis; phytoplankton and aquatic plant ecophysiology; light respiration; applications of mass spectrometry.

Visit http://www.umces.edu/todd-kana for more about their expertise, education, and contact information.

Students:

2011 - Karlena Brown, Delaware Valley College

2008 - Tsega Gsilassie, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

2005 - Kristen (VanSant) Blattner, Texas A&M University

2000 - Rebecca (Raves) Golden, East Stroudsburg University

1998 - Emily Cooper, Goucher College

1996 - Erin Haramoto, George Washington University

1995 - Matthew B. Sullivan, Long Island University Southampton

1993 - Christina Darkangelo Wood, Long Island University, Southampton

1992 - Jim Oldham, Hampshire College

Student Publications:

Glibert, P. M., T. M. Kana, and K. Brown*. 2013. From limitation to excess: the consequences of substrate excess and stoichiometry for phytoplankton physiology, trophodynamics and biogeochemistry, and the implications for modeling . Journal of Marine Systems 125:14-28 .
Kana, T. M., M. B. Sullivan*, J. C. Cornwell, and K. Groszkowski*. 1998. Denitrification in estuarine sediments determined by membrane inlet mass spectrometry . Limnology and Oceanography 43:334-339 .
Kana, T. M., C. Darkangelo*, M. D. Hunt, J. B. Oldham*, G. E. Bennet, and J. C. Cornwell. 1994. Membrane inlet mass spectrometer for rapid high precision determine of nitrogen, oxygen and argon in environmental water samples . Analytical Chemistry 66:4166-4170 .

Student Presentations:

Brown, K. L.*, T. M. Kana, J. Alexander, and P. M. Glibert. 2012. N and P accumulation in Thalassiosira pseudonana under different N:P supply ratios at saturating concentrations: implications for food webs . ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah .
Gsilassie, T.*, and T. M. Kana. 2009. Application of membrane inlet mass spectrometry to asses bubble formation in productivity and denitrification experiments . ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Nice, France .

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Eight students will be presenting the summer work at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in March 2022!
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