Prof.Gilbert Rowe
Professor
University of Texas A&M
USA
Biography
Dr. Gilbert T. Rowe has degrees in zoology and oceanography from Texas A&M (BS, ’64; MS, ’66) and Duke (PhD, ’68). He spent 10 years at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. (1968-79) and 8 years at the Brookhaven National Lab on Long Island (1979-87) before joining Texas A&M University as Head of the Oceanography Department (1987-93). In 2003 he transferred to the Texas A&M branch campus on the coast in Galveston (TAMUG) as Head of Marine Biology (2003-08), where he also served as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs (2008-10).
Research Interest
Dr. Rowe is a Regents Professor in Oceanography (College Station) and Marine Biology (Galveston) at Texas A&M, an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and he was a Fulbright Scholar in Chile where he continued his studies of coastal upwelling ecosystems. The publications from his research (ca. 150) have addressed animal zonation patterns, community biomass, sediment community respiration, benthic-pelagic coupling [the supply of regenerated nutrients from the sediments to the water column], the effects of hypoxia on the sea floor biota and the cycling of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen across a spectrum of diverse marine environments. His work often utilizes numerical simulations that illustrate important links within coastal food webs.