1979 B.S. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, (VA Tech) Biology/Chemistry
1985 Ph.D. The University of Georgia, Microbiology (Bacterial Lipid Geochemistry)

Professional Background

Fall 2000: Fulbright Senior Scholar - FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics Amsterdam - The Netherlands
2000-Present: Professor, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, UMCES
1995-2000: Associate Professor, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, UMCES
1989-1995: Assistant Professor, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, UMCES
1985-1988: Postdoctoral Fellow, Organic Geochemistry, Univ. of Bristol, (with G. Eglinton)
1982: Summer Research Fellow, NASA Ames Laboratory, Santa Clara, CA

Research Interests

Organic Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry. Sources, transformation and fate of organic compounds in aquatic environments and their linkages with climate. Natural product biogeochemistry.

Selected Publications over the last few years (among 62)

Dyda, R.Y., M.T. Suzuki, M.Y. Yoshinaga, and H.R. Harvey, 2007. The response of microbial communities to diverse organic matter sources in the Arctic Ocean. Deep Sea Research II (in press).

Harvey, H.R., 2006. Sources and Cycling of Organic Matter in the Marine Water Column. In: Volkman, J. (ed.), The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. Marine Organic Matter: Biomarkers, Isotopes, and DNA. Chapter 1. Springer, pp. 1-27.

Harvey, H.R., R.Y. Dyda, and D.L. Kirchman, 2006. The impact of DOM composition on bacterial lipids and community structure in estuaries. Aquatic Microb. Ecol. 42:105-117.

Roth, L.C. and H.R. Harvey, 2006. Intact protein modification and degradation in estuarine environments. Marine Chem. 102: 33-45.

Ju, S.-J., H.R. Harvey, J.G. Gutierrez, and W. R. Peterson, 2006. The role of lipids during embryonic development of the euphausiids Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa spinifera. Limnol. Oceanogr. 51: 2398-2408.

Grebmeier, J.M., and H.R. Harvey, 2005. The western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions Program: an overview. Deep Sea Res. II, 52:3109-3115.

Yunker, M.B., L.L. Belicka, H.R. Harvey, and R.W. Macdonald, 2005. Tracing the inputs and fate of marine and terrigenous organic matter in Arctic Ocean sediments: a multivariate analysis of lipid biomarkers. Deep-Sea Res. II, 52:3478-3508.

Ju, S.-J. and H.R. Harvey, 2004. Lipids as markers of nutritional condition and diet in the Antarctic krill Euphausia superba and Euphausia crystallorophias during austral winter. Deep-Sea Res. II (Southern Ocean GLOBEC Special Issue), 51:2199-2214.

Belicka, L.L., R.W. Macdonald, M.B. Yunker and H.R. Harvey 2004 The role of depositional regime on carbon transport and preservation in Arctic Ocean sediments. Marine Chem. 86:65-88.

Ju, S.-J., K. Solardi, K.L. Daly, and H.R. Harvey, 2004. Understanding the trophic role of the Antarctic ctenophore, Callianira antarctica, using lipid biomarkers. Polar Biol. 27: 782-792.

Mannino, A. and H.R. Harvey, 2004. Black Carbon in estuarine and coastal ocean dissolved organic matter. Limnol. Oceanogr. 49: 735-740.

Ju, S.-J., D.H. Secor, and H.R. Harvey, 2003. Demographic assessment of the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) in Chesapeake Bay using extractable lipofuscins as age markers. Fish. Bull., 101:312-320.

Nguyen, R.T. and H.R. Harvey, 2003. Preservation via macromolecular associations during Botrycoccus braunii decay: proteins in the Pula kerogen. Org. Geochem. 34:1391-1403.

Belicka, L.L., R.W. Macdonald and H.R. Harvey, 2002. Sources and transport of organic carbon to shelf, slope and basin surface sediments of the Arctic Ocean. Deep Sea Res. 49: 1463-1483.

Ju, S.-J., D.H. Secor, and H.R. Harvey, 2001. Growth rate variability and lipofuscin accumulation rates in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 224: 197-205.

Nguyen, R.T. and H.R. Harvey, 2001. Preservation of protein in marine systems: Hydrophobic and other non covalent associations as major stabilizing forces. Geochem. Cosmochim Acta. 65:1467-1482.

Harvey, H.R. and A. Mannino, 2001. The chemical composition and cycling of particulate and macromolecular dissolved organic matter in temperate estuaries as revealed by molecular organic tracers. Org. Geochem. 32:527-542.

Mannino, A. and H.R. Harvey, 2000. Terrigenous dissolved organic matter along an estuarine gradient and its flux to the coastal ocean. Org. Geochem., 31:1611-1625.

Ju, S.-J., D.H. Secor, and H.R. Harvey, 1999. Use of extractable lipofuscin for age determination of blue crab Callinectes sapidus. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 185: 171-179.

Recent Invited Talks and Synergistic Activities

Invited Participant: AMAP Arctic Carbon Cycle assessment workshop, Seattle, WA, March 2007

Invited Seminar: Molecular biomarkers as tracers of organic carbon sources and their cycling in a changing Arctic Ocean. University of Delaware College of Marine Science, Lewes, October 2006.

Invited Oral Presentation: Proteins at Sea: tracing the sources and cycling of organic matter in marine systems. Federation of Analytical Chemistry Societies National Meeting, Orlando, FL, September 2006.

Invited Oral Presentation: Applying Proteomics to Geochemistry: tracking individual proteins and their degradation products by LC-MS. Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, Plymouth, NH, August 2006.

Invited Oral Presentation: An Ocean Basin of Dirt? Using Molecular Biomarkers and Radiocarbon to Identify Organic Carbon Sources and Their Preservation in the Arctic Ocean. AGU Fall Conference, San Francisco, December 2005..

Invited Session Panelist: Arctic Margins and Gateways. ICARP II (International Conference on Arctic Research Planning), Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2005.

Invited Participant: NSF-SEARCH (Study of Environmental Arctic Change) Implementation Workshop, Lansdowne, VA, May 2005.

Session Organizer and Discussion Leader: Microbial Contributions to Organic Matter in the Water Column and Recent Sediments. Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, Plymouth, NH, August 2004.

Invited Participant: LTER Planning Workshop, An Initiative for McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, San Jose, CA, April 2004.

H.R. Harvey, L. Belicka, and R.M. Macdonald. Molecular biomarkers as tracers of carbon cycling along the shelf-basin boundary of the Arctic Ocean. ASLO Research Conference, Honolulu, February 2004.

Session Chair and Speaker: H.R. Harvey and S.-J. Ju. Age Determination of Euphausiids using extractable biochemical markers. AGU Ocean Sciences Conference, Portland, Oregon, January 2004.

H.R. Harvey, R. Rearick, and D.L. Kirchman. Linking lipid biomarkers and community structure analysis to trace the role of bacteria in aquatic environments. International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Krakow, Poland, September 2003.

Invited Participant: Friday Harbor Symposium: New Approaches in Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, Friday Harbor Laboratory, August 2003.

Teaching and Training

Member, University of Maryland Graduate Faculty, 1991-present
MD Sea Grant-NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Selection Committee, 1995-2005
MD Sea Grant Fellowship Advisor, 1991-2006 (14 Undergraduate Students)
MEES - Chair of Graduate Admissions Committee for Environmental Chemistry, 1997-2004
MEES - Oceanography Program Committee Co-Chair (graduate curriculum), 2004-present

Selected Peer Review and Service Activities (Recent)

National Research Council (Canada) and NERC (U.K.) - program and proposal review
National Science Foundation - Proposal Evaluation Panels, 5 in recent years
University of Maryland-System Wide Task Force on Long Distance Education
Associate Editor, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta - 2004 to present
American Geophysical union - Nominations committee - 2003 to present
Guest Editor - Deep Sea Research II (SBI Program Special Volume with J. Grebmeier) - 2004/2005
Scientific Program Committee, 2007 International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Torquay, UK
Geochemical Society - Member of Executive Committee, president-elect of Organic Geochemistry Division (2008-2010)

Selected University of Maryland Service Activities

UMCES Campus Faculty Senate Chair: 2005 ongoing to 2008
CBL Computer Services Committee Chair: 1996 - present
UMCES Faculty Senate: 1994 - 1998
CBL Faculty Search Committee Chair: 1997, 2001, 2004, and 2006
MEES Graduate Program Internal Review Committee: 2000
UMCES Integration and Applications Center Advisory Committee: 2004 - present
USM Council of System Faculty, UMCES Representative: 2006 through 2008