Carl Boyd

Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
1355 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax NS  B3H 4R2

Room 2640 LSC

Phone: (902) 494-2413
   Fax: (902) 494-3877
Email: carl.boyd@dal.ca

Education Background

• BSc - Zoology, Indiana University
• MSc - Zoology, Indiana University
• PhD - Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Awards and Honours

• Editorial Board, Limnology and Oceanography, 1980-1983.
• Associate Editor, Progress in Oceanography, 1981-1983.
• Advisory Editor, Polar Biology, 1981-1987.
• Comite de la Redaction; Le Naturaliste Canadien, 1981-1992.

Research Interests

• Membrane transport and nutrient uptake of marine phytoplankton
• Electrophysiology of marine diatoms
• Ionic regulation of marine phytoplankton
• Regulation of buoyancy of marine phytoplankton

Boyd, J.M., Gradmann, D., and Boyd, C.M. - 2003 - Transinhibition and voltage-gating in a fungal nitrate transporter - Journal of Membrane Biology, 195, 109-120.

Boyd, C.M., and Gradman, D. - 2002 - Impact of osmolytes on the buoyancy of marine phytoplantkon. - Marine Biology, Published online July 5, 2002, 29 pages.

Boyd, C.M., and Gradmann, D. - 2002 - Impact of osmolytes on the buoyancy of marine phytoplankton. - Marine Biology, 141, 605-618.

Gradmann, D., and Boyd, C.M. - 2000 - Three types of membrane excitations in the marine diatom Coscinodiscus wailesii. - Journal of Membrane Biology, 175, 149-160.

Gradmann, D., and Boyd, C.M. - 2000 - Three types of membrane excitations in the marine diatom Coscoinodiscus wailesii. - J. Membrane Biol., 175, 149-160.

Boyd, C.M., and Gradmann, D. - 1999 - Electrophysiology of the marine diatom Coscinodiscus wailesii. I: Endogenous changes of membrane voltage and resistance. - Journal of Experimental Botany, 50, 445-451.

Gradmann, D., and Boyd, C.M. - 1999 - Electrophysiology of the marine diatom Coscinodiscus wailesii. II: Potassium currents. - Journal of Experimental Botany, 50, 452-459.

Boyd, C.M., and Gradmann, D. - 1999 - Electrophysiology of the marine diatom Coscinodiscus wailesii. III: Uptake of nitrate and ammonium. - Journal of Experimental Botany, 50, 461-467.

Gradmann, D., and Boyd, C.M. - 1999 - Electrophysiology of marine diatom Coscinodiscus wailesii. IV: Types of non-linear current-voltage-time relationships recorded with a single saw-tooth voltage clamp. - European Biophysics Journal, 28591-599.

Gradmann, D., and Boyd, C.M. - 1999 - Electrophysiology of the marine diatom Coscinodiscus wailesii.  IV: Types of non-linear current-voltage-time relationships recorded with a single saw-tooth voltage clamp.  - European Biophysics J., 28, 591-599.

Boyd, C.M., and Gradmann, D. - 1999 - Electrophysiology of the marine diatom Coscinodiscus wailesii.  I: Endogenous changes of membrane voltage and resistance. - J. of Experimental Botany, 50, 445-451.

Gradmann, D., and Boyd, C.M. - 1999 - Electrophysiology of the marine diatom Coscinodiscus wailesii.  II:  Potassium currents. - J. Experimental Botony, 50, 452-459.

Boyd, C.M., and Gradmann, D. - 1998 - Electrophysiology of the marine diatom Coscinodiscus wailesii.  III: Uptake of nitrate amonium - J. Experimental Botany, 50, 461-467.

Gradmann, D., and Boyd, C.M. - 1995 - Membrane voltage of marine phytoplankton, measured in the diatom Coscinodiscus. - Marine Biology, 123, 645-650.