Peter Tango, Chesapeake Watershed Monitoring Coordinator

Education and Experience

Education

A.S.

Pre-environmental science

B.S.

Forest Biology

M.S.

Wildlife Ecology and Management

Ph.D.

Fisheries Science

Experience
MD DNR -Chief of Quantitative Ecological Assessment, MD DNR - 2004-2007

March 2005. State Representative to IOC Harmful Algae International database record group under the National Representative, Don Anderson.

Jan 2005. National contact for the US Maryland/Mid-Atlantic region for CYANONET, a Global Network for the Hazard Management of Cyanobacterial Blooms and Toxins in Water Resources. This project is part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) International Hydrology Program.

Project Leader for Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring, MD DNR - 2003
Natural Resource Planner, MD DNR - 1998-2002
Environmental Research Statistician - MD DNR, 1997-98.
Biostatistician - MD DNR, 1995-97.
Assistant Statistician - SUNY CESF, 1995.
Biotechnician - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1990-91

Associations/ Memberships

Estuarine Research Federation

Research or professional focus / current projects

• Ecology of Eutrophication
• Ecosystem Restoration
• Harmful algal blooms/phytoplankton ecology
• Statistics

Current projects - Organizing and conducting a large scale monitoring program review, grant work.

Focus - understanding ecosystem linkages and trajectories in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Defining monitoring needs in order to improve monitoring networks and assist managers in their needs for guiding restoration implementation.

Spare time - Cleaning up the world, developing a solution for world peace and human population sustainability, the usual things that keep us all awake at night.

Selected Bibliography

Tango, P. and W. Butler. (In press for Autumn 2008). Cyanotoxins in tidal waters of Chesapeake Bay. Northeast Naturalist.

Tango, P., W. Butler, and B. Michael. 2008. Cyanotoxins in the tidewaters of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay: The Maryland experience. Pp 179-180 in Hudnell, K. (Ed.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms, Research Triangle Park, Raleigh, North Carolina: State of the Science and Research Needs. Springer.

Burch, M., Dietrich, D., Donohue, J, Hawkins, B, Lloyd, A., Munns, W.R., Orme-Zavaleta, J., Steevens, J., Steffensen, D., Stone,D. and Tango, P. 2008. Risk assessment of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms. Chapter 35 in Hudnell, K. (Ed.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms, Research Triangle Park, Raleigh, North Carolina: State of the Science and Research Needs. Springer.

Tango, P., R. Magnien, D. Goshorn, H. Bowers, B. Michael, R. Karrh and D. Oldach. 2006. Associations between fish health and Pfiesteria spp. in Chesapeake Bay and mid-Atlantic estuaries. Harmful Algae. 5:352-362.

Tango, P., R. Magnien, W. Butler, R. Lacouture, M. Luckenbach, C. Poukish and C. Luckett. 2005. Impacts and potential effects due to Prorocentrum minimum blooms in Chesapeake Bay. Harmful Algae. 4:525-531.

Other Information

Hobbies and Activities
President of Deale Beach Citizens Association
Member of Deale Beach Garden Club

When I am not at work or dealing with the community or spending time with my dear wife in our wonderful gardens (it's peak iris bloom as I write today and we have about 20 varieties in bloom - yard looks and smells wonderful) or traveling, THEN it's Fishing (flyfishing for big salmonids in particular), Hunting, Hiking, Biking, Kayaking, Canoeing, Golf (about a 10 hndcp, if only I had more time to play maybe I could earn solid single digits :), Volleyball (throughout college and most of the last decade or so since), played softball many years but on hiatus now - got to take a break someplace or else my dear wife will be someone elses dear wife probably!