William Lawrence Silvert, Ph. D.

Rua Dr. Aresta Branco, 11, 7 Esq. 2825 Costa da Caparica PORTUGAL

Phone:  +351 91/935 59 25 E-mail: silvert@silvert.org

Scientific Background and Areas of Interest	General: Theoretical Ecology and Marine Biology Specific areas of interest: Simulation modelling of marine ecosystems Energy flows in marine food webs and marine productivity Allometry and scaling of metabolic rates Particle size distribution of aquatic organisms Ecosystem dynamics and stability properties Long-term cycles in marine populations Applications of fractal analysis to benthic community structure Benthic-pelagic coupling Environmental effects of aquaculture Phycotoxin kinetics in shellfish, including inverse modelling Applications of fuzzy logic to environmental assessment, and to systems theory in general Decision support systems for coastal zone management Neural network applications in ecology Object-oriented approaches to ecological modelling Parameter estimation for non-linear models Theory of complex systems General issues in theoretical ecology and systems theory
Personal Information	Birth Data: Born 11 December 1937 in New York City, New York. Citizenship: Both U. S. A. and Canadian (moved to Canada in 1972, naturalised in 1978). Currently resident in Portugal. Family Status: Married 9 July 1997 to Maria Emília de Freitas Mota e Cunha, a Portuguese national. Two adult children by an earlier marriage. Current Situation: Officially retired, but eager to remain active in scientific research and teaching. Permanently based in Portugal, free to travel.
Higher Education	1954 - 1958 Brown University Providence, RI Sc. B. in Physics, Magna cum Laude with Highest Honours in Physics 1958 - 1959 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Graduate study in Physics 1959 - 1964 Brown University Providence, RI Ph. D. in Physics, Thesis on theory of superconductivity with Leon N. Cooper
Professional experience	1964 - 1966 Michigan State University E. Lansing, MI Research Associate in Physics 1966 - 1969 Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, OH Assistant Professor of Physics 1969 - 1972 University of Kansas Lawrence, KS Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy 1972 - 1975 Dalhousie University Halifax, NS Associate Professor of Physics 1975 - 1978 Dalhousie University Halifax, NS Research Associate in Oceanography , Head of Fisheries Management Project 1978 - 1998 Bedford Inst. of Oceanography Dartmouth, NS Research Scientist, originally in Marine Ecology Laboratory, then in Habitat Ecology Section of Marine Environmental Sciences Division, Can. Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans. Retired 29 Sept. 1998 as SR-4 (Research Scientist level 4) 1998 - 2000 Bedford Inst. of Oceanography Dartmouth, NS Emeritus Research Scientist 2000 - now. Inst. for Fisheries & Sea Research Lisbon, Portugal Senior Research Fellow
Additional professional activities and recent teaching	1966 - 1967 NSF & Soviet Academy of Sciences Moscow, USSR Exchange Scholar, worked at solid state physics institutes for ten months Member of numerous executive and editorial boards, international working groups (e.g., ICES, SCOR), etc. Pioneer in scientific use of the Internet, established first DFO Web site and many international mailing lists 2001 - Taught a short course on Ecological Modelling (30 contact hours) at the University of the Algarve, Faro, Portugal. 2002 - Taught a short course on Fuzzy Systems, Modelling and Applications (16 contact hours) at the Unversity of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
Languages	Fluent in English, adequate French, some facility in Russian and German, currently studying Portuguese, and a smattering of other languages