BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Name: Gillian M. Stewart Title: Assistant Professor Department and College: School of Earth and Environmental Science, Queens College Date of full time hire at CUNY: September, 2005 Address, telephone, fax, e-mail: 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY 11367 Tel/fax: (718) 997-3104/3299 gstewart@qc.cuny.edu Education: Ph.D. (2005) Marine and Atmospheric Science, MSRC, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY M.Phil. (2002) Coastal Oceanography, MSRC, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY A.B. (1997) Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Academic and Professional Recognition: Major Awards DISCO (Dissertation Symposium on Chemical Oceanography) NSF and NOAA, Kona, HI (2005) American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship (2004-2005) Stony Brook Graduate Council Fellowship (1999-2004) Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (1999-2002) Sigma Xi Fellowship for Educational Travel (2004) Tinker Field Research Grant to conduct research in Spain (2003) Invited Seminars 2007 - Hunter College, Geography Department (New York, NY) 2007 - Rutgers U., Institute of Marine and Coastal Studies (New Brunswick, NJ) 2006 - Queens College, Biology Department (Flushing, NY) 2005 - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Palisades, NY) 2005 - Center for Environmental Molecular Science (Stony Brook, NY) Session Coordinator 2005, 2006, 2007 Expand Your Horizon Conference, Workshop Leader (NY, NY) 2006 Minority Student Mentor at ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting (Honolulu, HI) Professional Affiliations and Membership American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Early Career Committee EUR-Oceans North American panel (for selection of European Ph.D. and Postdocs) Member of: The Oceanography Society, The American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, The American Association of University Women, The American Geophysical Union Reviewer Member of Arctic Research Panel for NSF (June, 2007) Funding Agencies – EUR-Oceans, National Science Foundation Refereed Journals – Deep-Sea Research, Limnology and Oceanography, Marine Ecology Progress Series
General Research History: (7 of 10 peer-reviewed papers) Stewart, G.M. and N.S. Fisher (2003) Experimental studies on the accumulation of polonium-210 by marine phytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography 48(3): 1193-1201 Stewart G.M. and N.S. Fisher (2003) Bioaccumulation of polonium-210 in marine copepods. Limnology and Oceanography 48(5): 2011-2019 Stewart, G. M., N.S. Fisher, J.K. Cochran, S.W. Fowler, and P. Masqué (2004) The bioaccumulation of 210Po in plankton and its potential use as an organic carbon tracer at the DYFAMED site in the Northwestern Mediterranean. Rapport du Commission Internationale pour l’Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Mediterranee 37: 245 Stewart, G.M., S.W. Fowler, J-L Teyssie, O. Cotret, J.K. Cochran, N.S.Fisher (2005) Contrasting the transfer of polonium-210 and lead-210 across three trophic levels in the marine plankton. Marine Ecology Progress Series 290: 27-33 Liu X.-F., G.M. Stewart, J.K. Cochran, C. Lee, R. Armstrong, D. Hirschberg, J.-C. Miquel, B. Gasser (2005). Constraints on the differences between POC measured in samples from Niskin bottles and in-situ pumps. Deep Sea Research I 52: 1324-1344 Stewart G.M., J.K. Cochran, J. Xue, C. Lee, S. Wakeham, R.A. Armstrong, P. Masque, and J.C. Miquel (2007) Exploring the connection between Po-210 and organic matter in the northwestern Mediterranean. Deep Sea Research I, 54: 415-427 Stewart, G. M., N. S. Fisher, and S. W. Fowler. Chapter 8: Bioaccumulation of U/Th isotopes in marine organisms (in press), in U/Th Series Radionuclides in Aquatic Systems, S. Krishnaswami and J. K. Cochran, editors. Elsevier Press List of Existing and Pending Support: Existing Linking PCB bioconcentration and the natural radio-tracer polonium-210 in Hudson River plankton PSC-CUNY RF #60001-36-37 (7/01/06 – 6/30/07) $3800 Assessment of natural resources and watershed conditions in and adjacent to Gateway National Recreation Area, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, and Fire Island National Seashore National Park Service/ USGS (6/01/06 – 12/31/07) $80,200 Jamaica Bay BioBlitz Jamaica Bay Institute, Gateway National Recreation Area and North Atlantic Coast CESU (8/01/07 – 9/01/07) $9987 Pending Interannual Variability and Rapid Oscillation of Hypoxia in WLIS and the Surrounding Bays NOAA CHRP FY 2007 (12/1/07 – 11/30/12) $2,428,896 Collaborative Proposal: Testing linkages between plankton community structure and export of C, Po, and Th in the Sargasso Sea NSF OCE (2/1/08 – 1/31/11) $383,713 Educational and Training: Current Students - MS: Lily Leon (SEES, expected '08), Undergraduate: Latisha Williams (BIO, expected '07), Maria Rosa (BIO at CCNY, expected ’07), Intel HS: Bonnie Quach-Wong (Bronx Science, expected ’08)