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Christopher D'Elia

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Portrait photograph from 2014

Christopher Francis D'Elia is an American marine scientist and biologist, known for his research on nutrient pollution by nitrogen.[1] He is currently Dean and Professor at Louisiana State University College of the Coast and Environment[2][3] and since 1992 has been an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[4]

D'Elia holds a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.[2] In 1989 he joined the University of Maryland faculty where he was director of the Sea Grant program and president of the Sea Grant Association.[5] He led the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation from 1991 to 1993, and in 1999 moved to the University of Albany as vice president of research.[1] He later worked at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg where in 2007 D'Elia was appointed regional vice chancellor of students affairs and was in charge of all academic programs[6] and stayed until 2009 when he joined the faculty at Louisiana State University.[7]

In 2014 the University of Georgia Graduate School gave D'Elia their Alumni of Distinction Award.[8]

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  1. ^ a b "Marine Ecologist is New Vice President for Research". University at Albany. 1999. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
  2. ^ a b "Christopher D'Elia". Faculty profiles. Louisiana State University College of the Coast & Environment. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  3. ^ Basken, Paul (12 October 2016). "Universities Seek Smaller, Modernized Fleet of Research Vessels". The Chronicle of Higher Education. ISSN 0009-5982.
  4. ^ "D'Elia, Christopher". Fellows. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Archived from the original on 2017-08-12. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
  5. ^ Research, Committee on Environmental (1993). Research to Protect, Restore, and Manage the Environment. National Academies. ISBN 9780309049290.
  6. ^ Tampa Bay Magazine. Tampa Bay Publications, Inc. July 2007. p. 79.
  7. ^ Winchester, Donna (January 29, 2009). "More valued faculty members leaving USF St. Petersburg". Tampa Bay Times. Archived from the original on August 12, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
  8. ^ "D'Elia, PhD '74, receives 2014 Alumni of Distinction Award from UGA Graduate School". University of Georgia, Odum School of Ecology. 2014. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
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