Allen E. Paulson College of Science and Technology
Open University, Milton Keyes, U.K.
Ph.D. Zoology, Statistics minor 1994
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
B.S. Biology, Computer Science minor 1989
Utica College of Syracuse University, Utica, New York, U.S.A.
Dean, Allen E. Paulson College of Science and Technology (COST), 2007-present
Professor, Department of Biology, 2007-present
Interim Dean, COST, 2006-2007
Associate Dean of Faculty and Research Programs, COST, 2005-2006
Associate Dean of Student and Academic Programs, COST, 2004-2005
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, 2004-2007
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Associate Dean, Faculty of Science, 2000-2004
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Department of Zoology, 2002-2004
Director, Environmental Biology Program, 1998-1999
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Zoology, 1997-2002
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Postdoctoral Fellow, Great Lakes Institute, 1996-1997
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Sciences Department, 1994-1996
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Teaching Assistant, Duke University Marine Laboratory, 1992-1994
Predoctoral Fellow, Duke University Marine Laboratory, 1989-1992
Utica College of Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, 1985-1989
Interim Dean, College of Science and Technology (COST), 2006-2007
• Established positive working relationships with the Provost’s Office, Deans, Department Chairs, and individual Faculty. Provided leadership for developing a strategic plan for the College within Georgia Southern’s reclassification as a Doctoral/Research University. Managed the existing College budget, and developed a fiscal-year budget. Monitored and upheld the academic, personnel, and fiscal policies of the College.
• Key projects initiated:
1. Initiated a review of each Department’s policies and procedures for the evaluation of their faculty, to align their policies with the newly approved College guidelines.
2. Facilitated the implementation of a plan to improve the College’s retention, progression, and graduation rates.
3. Provided leadership in developing an advancement plan for the College.
Associate Dean of Faculty and Research Programs, COS T, 2005-2006
• Provided leadership for research programs and scholarly efforts. Assisted the Dean with developing policies and procedures for the evaluation of faculty. Monitored and upheld the policies concerning personnel within the College.
• Key projects initiated:
1. Streamlined the internal grant review process.
2. Provided leadership to include PRISM Strategy 10 (work with teachers in schools) in our faculty evaluation documents; COST was the first College of Science or Technology in the State to achieve this goal.
Associate Dean of Student and Academic Programs, COST, 2004-2005
• Provided leadership in the administration of enrollment management and student services of the College. Monitored and upheld the student academic policies and procedures of the College. Provided leadership in curriculum development, implementation, and assessment.
• Key project initiated:
1. Each department developed and employed at least two indirect assessments of the performance of their undergraduate majors (e.g. employer surveys, alumni surveys, senior exit interviews).
University College Dublin
Associate Dean of Science 2000-2004
• Assisted in the management of all aspects of the Faculty (College) of Science with primary responsibility for the first year of the degree programs. Specific responsibilities included the coordination of the first year activities of eight Academic Departments, effectiveness research, mentoring students and staff, and creating/implementing retention initiatives.
• Key projects initiated:
1. Student retention survey leading to modification of building structure
2. New induction and mentoring programs for first year students.
3. Student background and results survey leading to the identification of, and assistance for, students at extreme risk of failing courses.
University College Dublin
Coordinator: Graduate Review Program (Zoology) 1998-2002
• Managed the yearly progress reviews of approximately 50 graduate students including review structure, student feedback, timetabling and disciplinary action.
• Key project initiated:
1. designed and implemented the review program followed by the use of focus groups and questionnaires to improve program effectiveness.
Coordinator: Environmental Biology Program 1998-1999
• Managed degree program including course structure, student feedback, timetabling, admissions and examinations.
Coordinator: Second Year (Zoology) 1998-2000
• Managed second year (sophomore) courses.
Workshops, courses and conferences attended in the past 5 years. This list does not include conferences or workshops in my field of research.
2007 Introduction to working with Foundations
2006 Unleashing excellence: leading a culture of world-class service
2006 To Think and Act like a Scientist: The Roles of Inquiry, Research, and Technology. Lubbick, TX
2006 Action Research in the Classroom. PRISM regional institute.
2006 US Army Leader Development and Assessment Course: Educators Visit. Warrior Forge, WA.
2005 National Network for Education Renewal, Myrtle Beach, SC.
2005 Course Assessment. PRISM regional institute.
2005 Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences. Vancouver, Canada.
2005 Works training
2005 CAPP training
2004 Revising Area F of the Core. Board of Regents/Department of Education
2004 Understanding the New Georgia Performance Standards. Tifton, GA
2004 New faculty workshops
2004 Preparing a teaching portfolio
2004 Use of Wings
2004 Crystal Reports Basic
2004 Crystal Reports Advanced
2004 Understanding the Data Warehouse
2004 Effective budgeting for finance managers (University College Dublin- UCD)
2004 Working with dyslexic and dyspraxic students in education (UCD)
2003 Inclusive learning: disability awareness (UCD)
2003 Student retention: early intervention strategies (UCD)
2003 Managing students and staff with disabilities and learning difficulties (UCD)
2003 Understanding socio-economic disadvantage (UCD)
2002 Understanding suicide in young people (UCD)
2002 Working with interpersonel conflict (UCD)
Present memberships:
Year Role: Committee (Administrative level- i.e. College, University or State level)
2006-present Member: Educator Preparation Academic Advisory Committee (State)
2005-present Member: Initiating Simultaneous Renewal Group. National Network for Educational Renewal. (National)
2005-present Member: General Education Committee (University)
2005-present Member: College Facilities Committee (College)
2004-present Co-Chair (previously Secretary): COST Advisory Board (College)
2004-present Chair (previously Member): COST College Council (College)
2004-present Member: Deans- Directors- Department Chairs (University)
2004-present Member: PRISM Executive Leadership Team (State)
2004-present Member: G4- PRISM University Leadership Team (University)
2006-2007 Executive Committee Member: Educator Preparation Academic Advisory Committee (State)
2005-2006 Chair: Academic Excellence Committee (College)
2005-2006 Member: Enrollment Management Committee (University)
2004-2006 Member: SOAR Advisory Board (University)
2004-2005 Chair: COST Course & Curriculum Committee (College)
2004-2005 Member: Web CT Vista Implementation Committee (University)
2004-2005 Member: Academic Advisement Council (University)
2003-2004 Member: Disability Support Services Steering Committee (University)
2002-2004 Co-ordinator: Open House (College)
2001-2004 Mentor: Staff Development and Training Programme (College)
2001-2004 Chair: Open Day/ Schools Liaison Committee (College)
2001-2004 Member: Academic Council (University)
2001-2004 Chair: First Science Committee (College)
2000-2004 Chair: London International Youth Science Forum Selection Panel (College)
2000-2004 Member: Equal Rights to Access Steering Committee (University)
1998-2004 Representative: Marine Institute Bursary Scheme (State)
Georgia Southern University: Ichthyology (co-taught), Marine Ecology (co-taught), Coral Reef Monitoring Workshops (in Mexico and Belize)
University College Dublin: Animal Ecology, Experimental Design and Statistics, Marine Ecology, Policy and Practice in Environmental Biology, Vertebrate Diversity, Introductory Biology
University of Windsor: Aquatic Ecology
Duke University (as a Teaching Assistant): Behavioral Ecology, Biological Oceanography, Environmental Data Analysis, Marine Ecology
Utica College of Syracuse University (as a Teaching Assistant): Assembly, Basic, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, RPG
Georgia Southern University.
One Senior Thesis project in 2006.
University College Dublin.
Eighteen Honors (Senior Thesis) Projects from 1997-2003.
University of Windsor.
Two Senior Thesis projects in 1996.
University College Dublin. Details available upon request.
Nine Ph.D. students completed.
Three M.Sc. students completed.
Two M.App.Env.Sci. students completed.
One Ph.D. student in progress.
Served on committees for twenty-four Ph.D. students and eleven M.Sc. students.
University College Dublin.
Bryan Wilson, Ph.D. Molecular Ecology. 2002-2004.
Leonie Dransfeld, Ph.D. Fisheries Biology. 1999-2001.
2007-2011 M.K. Boyd (PI), B.S. Danilowicz, A. Heaston, B. Shulte, D. Stone. (Co-PIs). NSF STEM Talent Expansion Program. Advisement and Scholarship Promoting Inquiry-Based Research Experiences in STEM. Project funding of $1,000,000.
2004-2008 P. Sale (PI). B.S. Danilowicz (Co-PI), 17 Co-PIs in total. World Bank- Global Environment Fund. Assessing the Resilience and Dynamics of Coral Reef Populations. Project funding of $1,200,000.
2005-2006 P.F. Sale (PI), E. Arias, M. Butler, B.S. Danilowicz, K. Lindeman, R. Steneck (Co-PIs). National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Monitoring recruitment in protected areas in Mesoamerica. Project funding of $30,000.
2003-2005 PI: Serge Planes. B.S. Danilowicz (Co-PI), 7 Co-PIs in total. Assessment of biomass export from marine protected areas and its impacts on fisheries in the Western Mediterranean Sea. EU Project Q5RS-2001-00891, project funding of $2,820,513. My personal budget was $282,734.
2004 P.Sale (PI), E. Arias, M. Butler, B.S. Danilowicz, K. Lindeman, R. Steneck (Co-PIs). Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research Small Grants Program. Assessing the Resilience and Dynamics of Coral Reef Populations: a Workshop for Targeted Research on Recruitment Dynamics of Mesoamerican Reef Species. $15,000.
2002-2004 B.S. Danilowicz (PI). Establishing traceability for cod (Gadus morhua): determining location of spawning and harvest. EU Project Q5RS-2000-01697, project budget $2,396,000. My personal budget was $398,366.
2002-2003 B.S. Danilowicz (PI). Periculture Services, French Polynesia. Determination of optimal marking methods for larval Pinctata margaritifera. $14,245.
2001-2004 B.S. Danilowicz (PI). T.C. Crowe (Co-PI). Classification of Irish coastal lagoons. Duchas (Department of Wildlife). $152,162.
2000-2003 S.K. Brown (PI). B.S. Danilowicz (Co-PI), 6 Co-PIs in total. NOAA-ESDIM. Oceanographic data products for the NOAA/Marine Institute of Ireland Flagship Project. $225,000.
2000-2003 McGowan (PI), B.S. Danilowicz (Co-PI). Higher Education Authority of Ireland. PRTLI III. Elemental fingerprinting of fish otoliths as a pollution probe of the Irish marine environment. $76,925.
2000-2002 B.S. Danilowicz (PI). Enterprise Ireland Basic Research Grants Scheme. Project SC/2000/012. Otolith microchemistry: a new tool for determining the timing and rate of fish dispersal. $59,768.
2000-2002 B.S. Danilowicz (PI) and W. Meijer (PI). President's Research Award. Characterising the commencal bacteria assemblage in fish mucus. $9,615.
2000-2001 B.S. Danilowicz (PI). Irish Marine Institute; EU Project DG XIV 98/090. Development and validation of egg production based biomass estimates, using cod and plaice stocks in the Irish Sea. $25,640.
1999-2001 B.S. Danilowicz (PI). Irish Marine Institute/NOAA. A retrospective analysis of Ireland’s oceanography and fisheries data. $91,210.
1999-2001 B.S. Danilowicz (PI). President’s Research Award. RP173. Using otolith microchemistry to trace the movement of Atlantic herring. $4,930.
1998-2000 B.S. Danilowicz (PI). Enterprise Ireland Basic Research Grants Scheme. Relating sea-surface temperature gradients to the condition of fish larvae. $47,340.
1998-2000 J. Browne (PI). B.S. Danilowicz- (Subcontracter); EU Community Initiative Interreg IIC Atlantic Area 98/010. Diversification trials with alternate tuna fishing techniques including the use of remote sensing technology. Project funding of $4,098,370. My personal budget was $49,145.
1998 B.S. Danilowicz (PI), R. Nash (Co-PI). The ecology of larval fishes in the Irish Sea in relation to physical oceanography. Forbairt/British Council. $2,977.
1993 B.S. Danilowicz (PI). Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research. The effects of age and size on habitat selection during settlement of a damselfish. $800.
1991 B.S. Danilowicz (PI). Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research. The development of recruitment variation in the damselfish Dascyllus albisella. $450.
Smith, Cindy, Bret S. Danilowicz, Wim G. Meijer. In press. Characterisation of the bacterial community associated with the surface and mucus layer of whiting (Merlangius merlangus). FEMS Microbiology Ecology. In Press
Wilson, Bryan, Bret S. Danilowicz, Wim G. Meijer. The diversity of bacterial communities associated with Atlantic Cod Gadus morhua. Microbial Ecology. In Press
Brophy, Deirdre, Bret S. Danilowicz, Pauline King. 2006. Evidence of spawning season fidelity and natal homing in sympatric populations of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus L.). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 63(3): 607-616.
Lee, Orla, Bret S. Danilowicz, Mark Dickey-Collas. 2006. Temporal and spatial variability in growth and condition of dab (Limanda limanda) & sprat (Sprattus sprattus) larvae in the Irish Sea. Fisheries Oceanography. 15(6): 490-507.
Lee, Orla, Bret S. Danilowicz, Richard D.M. Nash. 2005. Small-scale spatiotemporal variability in ichthyoplankton and zooplankton distribution in relation to a tidal-mixing front in the Irish Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 62(6): 1021-1036. (Only revisions completed at Georgia Southern University)
Sale, Peter F., Robert K. Cowen, Bret S. Danilowicz, Geoff P. Jones, Jake P. Kritzer, Kenyon C. Lindeman, Serge Planes, Nick V.C. Polunin, Garry R. Russ, Yvonne J. Sadovy, and Robert S. Steneck. 2005. Critical science gaps impede use of no-take fishery reserves. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 20(2): 74-80.
Sale, Peter F., Bret S. Danilowicz, Peter J. Doherty, and David McB. Williams. 2005. The relation of microhabitat to variation in recruitment of young-of-year coral reef fishes. Bulletin of Marine Science. 76(1): 123–142.
Smith, Cindy, Bret S. Danilowicz, Adrian K. Clear, Fintan J. Costello, Bryan Wilson, and Wim G. Meijer. 2005. T-Align, a web-based tool for comparison of multiple terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism profiles. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 54: 375-380.
Brophy, Deirdre, Terresa M. Jeffries, and Bret S. Danilowicz. 2004. Elevated manganese concentrations at the core of clupeid otoliths: possible environmental, physiological, or structural origins. Marine Biology. 144: 779-786.
Dransfeld, Leonie, Oonagh Dwane, Catherine McCarney, Ciaron Kelly, Bret S. Danilowicz, and Julie Fives. 2004. Larval distribution of major commercial fish species in Irish waters. Irish Fisheries Investigations No. 13. Marine Institute, Galway. 39 pp.
Heffernan, Olive A., Bret S. Danilowicz, and Steven P. Milligan. 2004. Determination of species-specific spawning distributions of commercial finfish in the Irish Sea using a biochemical protein-based method. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 284:279-291.
Brophy, Deirdre and Bret S. Danilowicz. 2003. The influence of pre-recruitment growth on subsequent growth and age at first spawning in Atlantic Herring (Clupea harengus L.). ICES Journal of Marine Science. 60(5):1103-1113.
Brophy, Deirdre, Bret S. Danilowicz and Teressa M. Jeffries. 2003. The detection of elements in larval otoliths from Atlantic herring, (Clupea harengus L.) using laser ablation ICP-MS. Journal of Fish Biology. 63: 990-1007.
Brophy, Deirdre and Bret S. Danilowicz. 2002. Tracing populations of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus L.) in the Irish and Celtic Seas using otolith microstructure. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 59: 1305-1313.
Danilowicz, Bret S., Nicholas Tolimieri, and Peter F. Sale. 2001. Meso-scale habitat features affect recruitment of reef fishes in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. Bulletin of Marine Science. 69(3): 1223-1232.
O'Brien, Rory, Bret S. Danilowicz, Louise Bailey, O. Flynn, E. Costello, D. O'Grady, and Mark Rogers. 2000. Characterisation and of the Mycobacterium bovis restriction fragment length polymorphism DNA probe pUCD and performance comparison with standard methods. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 38:1-8.
Danilowicz, Bret S. and Peter F. Sale. 1999. Modelling settlement in open populations of reef fishes. Ecological Modelling. 121: 261-276.
Danilowicz, Bret S. and Peter F. Sale. 1999. Relative intensity of predation on the French grunt, Haemulon flavolineatum, during diurnal, dusk, and nocturnal periods on a coral reef. Marine Biology. 133(2): 337-343.
Danilowicz, Bret S. 1997. The effects of age and size on habitat selection during
settlement of a damselfish. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 50: 257-265.
Danilowicz, Bret S. 1997. A potential mechanism for episodic recruitment of a coral
reef fish. Ecology. 78(5): 1415-1423.
Masterson, Colleen, Bret S. Danilowicz, and Peter F. Sale. 1997. Yearly and inter-island
variation in the recruitment dynamics of Thalassoma bifasciatum. Journal of
Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 214: 149-166.
Danilowicz, Bret S. 1996. Choice of coral species by naive and field caught
damselfish. Copeia. 1996(3): 735-739.
Danilowicz, Bret S. 1995. The role of temperature in spawning of the damselfish Dascyllus
albisella. Bulletin of Marine Science. 57(3): 624-636.
Danilowicz, Bret S. 1995. Spatial patterns of spawning in the coral reef damselfish
Dascyllus albisella. Marine Biology. 122: 145-155.
Losey, George S., Jeffery L. Mahon, and Bret S. Danilowicz. 1995. Innate recognition by host fish of their cleaning symbiont. Ethology. 100(4): 277-283.
Danilowicz, Bret S. and Christopher L. Brown. 1992. Rearing methods for two damselfish species: Dascyllus albisella (Gill) and D. aruanus (L.). Aquaculture. 106:141-149.
Shannon, Patrick, and the First Year Committee. 2002. Supporting Students with Difficulties: Guidelines for Academic Staff. 24p. University College Dublin.
Periodic Reviewer for: Advances in Marine Biology, Animal Behaviour, Australian Journal of Freshwater and Marine Science, Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, Bulletin of Marine Science, Coral Reefs, Current Biology, Ecology, Ecological Monographs, Fisheries Management, Fisheries Management and Ecology, Fisheries Oceanography, Journal of Fish Biology, Marine Biology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Nature, Oceanologica Acta, Oecologia, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Sarsia, Science,
American Fisheries Society
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences
Council on Undegraduate Research
Fisheries Society of the British Isles
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