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Wade H. Jeffrey
Professor
PhD Marine Science University of South Florida
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Email: wjeffrey@uwf.edu
Phone: 850-474-2472
Fax: 850-474-3130
Full CV
Personal webpage: http://www.uwf.edu/wjeffrey
Courses Taught
Marine Microbiology, Biological Oceanography, Climate Change, Biology Seminar, Professional Development in Biology, Marine Biotechnology
Research Interests
My research has focused on the effects of ultraviolet radiation on marine and aquatic bacterioplankton. The approach has been multidisciplinary including microbial ecology, oceanography, molecular biology and photobiology. Studies have been conducted in diverse environments ranging from coral reefs, the Mediterranean Sea, and temperate lakes. A significant amount of work has focused on the effects of ozone depletion on marine bacteria in Antarctica.
More recently my lab has also become interested in patterns of microbial community structure (microbial biogeography). Finally, while we have spent many years looking at the inhibitory effects of sunlight on bacterioplankton growth, we are now also investigating patterns of the stimulation of bacteria by visible light, or photoheterotrophy.
Selected Publications
Neale, P. J., W. H. Jeffrey, C. Sobrino, J. D. Pakulski, J. D.Phillips-Kress, A. J. Baldwin, L. A. Franklin, and H. Kim. 2009. Inhibition of Phytoplankton and Bacterial Productivity by Solar Radiation in the Ross Sea Polynya. in M. Lang, S. Miller, and I. Krupnik, editors. Smithsonian at the Poles. Contributions to IPY Science. Smithsonian Press, Washington, D.C. pp. 299-308.
Meador, J.A., A.J. Baldwin, P. Catala, W.H. Jeffrey, F. Joux, J.A. Moss, J.D. Pakulski, R. Stephens, and D.L. Mitchell. 2009. Solar Ultraviolet radiation induced DNA damage in marine microorganisms collected along a latitudinal gradient from 70º N to 68º S. Photochemistry Photobiology 85:412-420.
Pakulski. J.D., J.A. Meador, J.P. Kase, and W.H. Jeffrey. 2008. Effect of stratospheric ozone depletion and enhanced ultraviolet radiation on marine bacteria at Palmer Station, Antarctica in the early austral spring. Photochemistry and Photobiology 84: 215-221.
Abboudi, M., W.H. Jeffrey, J.-F. Ghiglione, M. Pujo-Pay, L. Oriol, R. Sempéré, B. Charrière, and F. Joux. 2007. Effects of Photochemical Transformations of Dissolved Organic Matter on Bacterial Metabolism and Diversity in Three Contrasting Coastal Sites in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Microbial Ecology 55: 344-357.
Pakulski, J.D., A. Baldwin, A. Dean, S. Durkin, D. Karentz, C.A. Kelley, K. Scott, H. J. Spero, S. Wilhelm and W. H. Jeffrey. 2007. Responses of heterotrophic bacteria to latitudinal variation in solar irradiance. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 47:153-162.
Baldwin. A.J., J.A. Moss, J.D. Pakulski, P. Catala. F. Joux, and W.H. Jeffrey. 2005. Microbial diversity in a Pacific Ocean transect from the Arctic to Antarctic circles. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 41: 91-102.
Jeffrey, W.H., R.J. Pledger, P. Aas, S. Hager, R.B. Coffin, R. Von Haven, and D.L. Mitchell. 1996. Diel and depth profiles of DNA photodamage in bacterioplankton exposed to ambient solar ultraviolet radiation. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 137: 293-304.
Pakulski, J.D., R.B. Coffin, C.A. Kelley, R. Downer, M. Maille Lyons, P. Aas, and W.H. Jeffrey. 1996. Iron stimulation of Antarctic bacteria. Nature 383: 133-134.