Faculty Projects and Publications

Robert Bidigare

Biological-optical interactions in the upper ocean, phytoplankton pigment biochemistry, intermediary metabolism in marine plankton, regulation of algal photosynthesis, controls on carbon isotopic fractionation by marine phytoplankton, and pelagic trophodynamics.

2008-present: Scientific consultant, Algenol Biofuels
2007-present: Director, Scientific Advisory Board, Kuehnle AgroSystems
2007: Pigment consultant, NASA’s ocean color program
2006-present: Founder and President, Microbial Solutions
2006-present: Founding member and scientific consultant, HR BioPetroleum
2006-2009: Federal advisor, NOAA’s Ocean and Human Health Initiative
2006: Founding member, The E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
2002-present: Member of the Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture Advisory Subcommittee on Algae
2002-present: Associate Editor, Limnology and Oceanography
2001-2002: Committee member of the NRC Reference Materials for Ocean Science study
1997-2001: Associate Editor, Reviews of Geophysics
1993-2002: Member of NASA's SeaWiFS Science Team
1993-1996: Member of the U.S. JGOFS Steering Committee
1989-1994(CCMP): Advisory board for the Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton
1988-1992: Member of NASA's SeaWiFS Prelaunch Science Working Team
1988-2003: U.S. algal pigment consultant for the international JGOFS program
1985-present: Joint Task Group for Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
Phycological Society of America (PSA)
The Oceanography Society (TOS)