Staff Profile

Bruce Keafer

Preferred Name: Bruce A Keafer

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE III

BIOLOGY

Email: bkeafer@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2509

Office: LOSOS BLDG 

Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 57
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Education

B.S. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1977, Biology

Research Interests

Ecology of marine toxic dinoflagellates and other harmful algal bloom phenomena; distribution, transport, and delivery of toxic Alexandrium sp. blooms to shellfish sites; development of rapid and quantitative species-specific antibody probes for identification of harmful algae; utilization of satellite imagery for the early detection of harmful algal blooms.