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William Ellis

Contact Information

Phone:
(207) 581-4360

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Address:
360 Aubert Hall, UMaine
Orono, ME 04469-5706

Education

Ph.D. University of Rhode Island (Chemical Oceanography) - 1992, AB Bowdoin College (Chemistry) - 1986

Description

Associate Professor of Oceanography

Associate Director

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Dr. Ellis is responsible for the day-to-day management of the School of Marine Sciences. He also serves as the Undergraduate Program Coordinator and the advisor for all first-year and transfer students. In addition to his administrative duties, he teaches introductory courses in marine science and chemistry.

Research interests

Please see publications below.

Publications

Townsend, D. W., and W. G. Ellis, Primary Production and Nitrogen Cycling on the Northwest Atlantic Continental Shelf in Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins: A Global Synthesis, Lui, K. K., L. Atkinson, R. Quinones, and L. Talaue-McManus (eds). Springer-Verlag New York, in press, 2009.
King, T. A., and W. G. Ellis, Jr., Development of a high quality natural gamma data set from the Ceara Rise: Critical groundwork for core and log data integration, Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 154: College Station TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 117-134, 1997.
King, T. A., W. G. Ellis, Jr., D. W. Murray, N. J. Shackleton, and S. Harris, Miocene evolution of carbonate sedimentation at the Ceara Rise: A multivariate data/proxy approach, Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 154: College Station TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 349-365, 1997.
Stenchikov, G., R. Dickerson, K. Pickering, W. Ellis, B. Doddridge, S. Kondragunta, O. Poulida, J. Scala, and W.-K. Tao, Troposphere-stratosphere exchange in a mid latitude mesoscale convective complex: Part 2, numerical simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 6837-6851, 1996.
Ellis, W. G., Jr., A. M. Thompson, S. Kondragunta, K. E. Pickering, G. Stenchikov, R. R. Dickerson, and W.-K. Tao, Potential ozone production following convection based on future emission scenarios, Atmos. Environ., 30, 667-672, 1996.
Arimoto, R., R. A. Duce, B. J. Ray, W. G. Ellis, Jr., J. D. Cullen, and J. T. Merrill, Trace elements in the atmosphere over the North Atlantic, J. of Geophys. Res., 100, 1199-1213, 1995.
Ellis, W. G., Jr., and J. T. Merrill, Trajectories for Saharan dust transported to Barbados using Stokes's Law to describe gravitational settling, J. Appl. Meteor., 34, 1716-1726, 1995.
Thompson, A. M., K. E. Pickering, R. R. Dickerson, W. G. Ellis, Jr., D. J. Jacob, J. R. Scala, W.-K. Tao, D. P. McNamara, and J. Simpson, Convective transport over the central United States and its role in the regional CO and ozone budgets, J. of Geophys. Res., 99, 18,703-18,711, 1994.
Ellis, W. G., Jr., R. Arimoto, D. L. Savoie, J. T. Merrill, R. A. Duce, and J. M. Prospero, Aerosol selenium at Bermuda and Barbados, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 12,673-12,685, 1993.
Galloway, J. N., J. M. Prospero, H. Rodhe, R. S. Artz, C. S. Atherton, Y. J. Balkanski, H. G. Bingemer, R. A. Brost, S. Burgermeister, G. R. Carmichael, J. S. Chang, R. J. Charlson, S. Cober, W. G. Ellis, Jr., C. J. Fischer, J. M. Hales, D. R. Hastie, T. Iversen, D. J. Jacob, K. John, J. E. Johnson, P. S. Kasibhatla, J. Langner, J. Lelieveld, H. Levy, II, F. Lipschultz, J. T. Merrill, A. F. Michaels, J. M. Miller, J. L. Moody, J. E. Penner, J. Pinto, A. A. P. Pszenny, P. A. Spiro, L. Tarrason, S. M. Turner, and D. M. Whelpdale. Sulfur and nitrogen cycling in the North Atlantic Ocean's atmosphere: A Synthesis of field and modeling results, NOAA Tech. Memo, Air Resour. Lab., Environ. Res. Lab., Silver Spring, Md., 1992.
Galloway, J. N., J. E. Penner, C. S. Atherton, J. M. Prospero, H. Rodhe, R. S. Artz, Y. J. Balkanski, H. G. Bingemer, R. A. Brost, S. Burgermeister, G. R. Carmichael, J. S. Chang, R. J. Charlson, S. Cober, W. G. Ellis, Jr., C. J. Fischer, J. M. Hales, D. R. Hastie, T. Iversen, D. J. Jacob, K. John, J. E. Johnson, P. S. Kasibhatla, J. Langner, J. Lelieveld, H. Levy, II, F. Lipschultz, J. T. Merrill, A. F. Michaels, J. M. Miller, J. L. Moody, J. Pinto, A. A. P. Pszenny, P. A. Spiro, L. Tarrason, S. M. Turner, and D. M. Whelpdale, Sulfur and nitrogen levels in the North Atlantic Ocean's atmosphere: A Synthesis of field and modeling results, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 6, 77-100, 1992.
Duce, R. A., P. S. Liss, J. T. Merrill, E. L. Atlas, P. Baut-Menard, B. B. Hicks, J. M. Miller, J. M. Prospero, R. Arimoto, T. M. Church, W. G. Ellis, J. N. Galloway, L. Hansen, T. D. Jickells, A. H. Knap, K. H. Reinhardt, B. Schneider, A. Soudine, J. J. Tokos, S. Tsunogai, R. Wollast, and M. Zhou, The Atmospheric Input of Trace Species to the World Ocean, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 5, 193-259, 1991.
Duce, R. A., P. S. Liss, J. T. Merrill, E. L. Atlas, P. Baut-Menard, B. B. Hicks, J. M. Miller, J. M. Prospero, R. Arimoto, T. M. Church, W. G. Ellis, J. N. Galloway, L. Hansen, T. D. Jickells, A. H. Knap, K. H. Reinhardt, B. Schneider, A. Soudine, J. J. Tokos, S. Tsunogai, R. Wollast, and M. Zhou, The Atmospheric Input of Trace Species to the World Ocean, World Meteorological Organization, Reports and Studies (GESAMP) No. 38, 1989.
Gilfillan, E. S., D. S. Page, A. E. Bass, P. M. Fickett, J. C. Foster, W. G. Ellis, S. Rusk, and C. Brown, Petroleum Effects on Osmoregulation in the Marine Halophytes Spartina alternaflora and Rhizophora mangle. In: J. Kuiper and W. J. van den Brink (eds.). Oil Pollution: Fate and Effects of Oil in Marine Ecosystems. Martinius Nijhoff and Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 1987.

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