Paul V. Zimba

Dr. Zimba is Director of the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Center for Coastal Studies. He is an internationally renowned expert in aquatic culturing and biology He is an adjunct at the University of Mississippi and the State University of New York SUNY and has also served as an Adjunct Faculty member at Loyola University of New Orleans. His research interests include aquatic ecosystem ecology algal toxin assessment, harmful algae wetlands aquaculture, micro-algal taxonomy and physiology carbon fixation assessment. He also studies remote sensing aquatic ecosystem stressors and cyanobacteria secondary metabolites. Dr. Zimba earned his Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences at Virginia Wesleyan College; a Masters in Biology from Old Dominion University; and a PhD from Mississippi State University. Dr. Zimba has presented at the Gordon Conference on Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins and served on the editorial board of two international journals as well as the Board of Trustees of the Phycological Society of America.