TITLE:Professor of Marine Environmental Biology
ACADEMIC INSTITUTION: University of Southern California

David A Caron is a professor in the Marine Environmental Biology section of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California. He has degrees in Microbiology (B.S.) and Oceanography (M.S.) from the University of Rhode Island, and in Biological Oceanography (Ph.D.) conferred jointly by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research interests involve marine and freshwater microbial ecology. Ongoing research programs include studies of harmful bloom-forming species of microalgae and investigations of the biodiversity and physiology of tropical, temperate, and polar microbial communities. He has authored or co-authored approximately 150 scientific articles and book chapters. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a member of the American Society for Microbiology, the International Society of Protistologists, The Oceanography Society, the International Society of Microbial Ecology, and the Estuarine Research Foundation.