Professional Activities

Professional Experience:

  • 2012 - present Adjunct Professor of Zoology, Michigan State University, 203 Natural Sciences Building, 288 Farm Lane, East Lansing, MI 48854-1115
  • 2005 - 2012 Assistant Professor of Marine Biology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, USA
  • 2003-2005 Sir Izaak Walton Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada (overlapped with EPA Post-Doc for one year)
  • 2003-2004 Lecturer in Habitat Conservation and Management, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • 2002-2004 EPA Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Connecticut, Groton, USA
  • 2002-2003 Lecturer in Biology, University of Connecticut, Groton, USA
  • 1997 (summer) Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant for Invertebrate Physiology, University of New Brunswick, Canada
  • 1996 (summer) Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant for Microbiology / Mycology, University of New Brunswick, Canada
  • 1987 - 1995 Commercial/Saturation Diver, Alberta, Canada

Awards/Honors/Distinction:

2014

Keynote speaker for Oceanography 2014, held in Las Vegas July 2 1-23.

2013

Tourism Goodwill Ambassador for Israel, Presented in Appreciation by Dr. Uzi Landau, Minister of Tourism, Israel

2011

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Recognition (Poster Presentation requested to be used for NOAA advertisement). Poster Presented at “Linking Science to Management: A conference and workshop on the Florida Keys marine ecosystem”. October 19-22, 2010. Duck Key, Florida. Ref: Dr. Nancy Diersing, Florida Keys NMS.

2009

Texas A&M System Teaching Excellence Award. Class taught was “The Biology of Corals”. Online at: http://kanga.tamucc.edu/Coastlines/2009/august/index.html

2009

Best Paper/Oral Presentation. Australian Coral Reef Society, Darwin, Australia. September 25th – 27th.

2007

Best Paper/Oral Presentation. 15th International Conference on Environmental BioIndicators, Hong-Kong.

2005 - 2007

National Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada Fellowship Nominee, Canada (declined to accept position at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi)

2003 - 2005

Sir Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dalhousie University, Canada

2002 - 2005

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut, CT.

2001 - 2002

Central Queensland University, Queensland, Honorary Research Fellow, Australia

2000

Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Award, Australia

2000

Best Paper/Oral Presentation. The Australian Society for Microbiology, Australia

1999

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Award, Queensland, Australia

1998 - 2003

Commonwealth Central Queensland University International Postgraduate Research Scholarship

1998

Best Paper/Oral Presentation. National Shellfisheries Association Conference Award, Florida, USA

1997

Vaughan Scholarship. University of New Brunswick, Canada.

1997

Best Paper/Oral Presentation. Nova Scotia Aquaculture Conference, Nova Scotia, Canada

 

Kevin B Strychar

Associate Professor of Climatology
Annis Water Resources Institute
Grand Valley State University
USA