Richard A. Gleeson
(Ph.D., William and Mary, 1978)

Research Coordinator, Guana Tolomato
Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve

rglee@whitney.ufl.edu

Current Project

During 2001, Rick Gleeson assumed the position of Research Coordinator for the recently designated Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTMNERR). The GTMNERR is part of a nationwide federal/state partnership program established by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop research reserves at representative biogeographic regions around the coastal United States. It is the Nation’s 25th Estuarine Research Reserve, and encompasses over 55,000 acres of coastal waters, wetlands and publicly-owned uplands to the north and south of St. Augustine, Florida.

Gleeson is responsible for developing and coordinating the broad-based research and monitoring initiatives of the GTMNERR, which will utilize technologies ranging from molecular biology to satellite remote sensing as tools to better understand the natural processes of estuarine systems.

More information about this program is available at the following websites:

http://www.gtmnerr.org/

http://nerrs.noaa.gov/GTM/welcome.html

Selected Publications

Gleeson, R.A., K. Hammar and P.J.S. Smith (2000). Sustaining olfaction at low salinities: mapping ion flux associated with the olfactory sensilla of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus. J. Exp. Biol. 203: 3145-3152.

Gleeson, R.A., L.M. McDowell, H.C. Aldrich, K. Hammar and P.J.S. Smith (2000). Sustaining olfaction at low salinities: evidence for a paracellular route of ion movement from the hemolymph to the sensillar lymph in the olfactory sensilla of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus. Cell Tissue Res. 301: 423-431.

Gleeson, R.A., M.G. Wheatly and C.L. Reiber (1997). Perireceptor mechanisms sustaining olfaction at low salinities: insight from the euryhaline blue crab, Callinectes sapidus. J. Exp. Biol. 200:445-456.

Gleeson, R.A., L.M. McDowell and H.C. Aldrich (1996). Structure of the aesthetasc (olfactory) sensilla of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus: transformations as a function of salinity. Cell Tissue Res. 284:279-288.

Renninger, G.H., L. Kass, R.A. Gleeson, C.L. Van Dover, B-A. Battelle, R.N. Jinks, E.D. Herzog and S.C. Chamberlain (1995). Sulfide as a chemical stimulus for deep-sea hydrothermal vent shrimp. Biol. Bull. 189:69-76.

Gleeson, R.A., W.E.S. Carr and H.G. Trapido-Rosenthal (1993). Morphological characteristics facilitating stimulus access and removal in the olfactory organ of the spiny lobster Panulirus argus: insight from the design. Chem. Senses 18:67-75.

Gleeson, R.A. (1991). Intrinsic factors mediating pheromone communication in the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus. In: Crustacean Sexual Biology, edited by R.T. Bauer and J.W. Martin, pp. 17-32. Columbia University Press, New York.

Carr, W.E.S., R.A. Gleeson and H.G. Trapido-Rosenthal (1990). The role of perireceptor events in chemosensory processes. Trends Neurosci. 13:212-215.