Dennis Powers, Marine Biologist, 65

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Dennis A. Powers, a former director of Stanford University's Hopkins
Marine Station, died, December 8, 2003, in New Smyrna Beach, Florida,
after a long illness, at the age of 65.

Powers headed the Pacific Grove-based facility from 1988 to 2000 and
also was the Harold A. Miller Professor of Biological Sciences.

"Dennis Powers was a creative force who was instrumental in catalyzing
the development of the fields of integrative biology and adaptational
biochemistry," Stanford biological sciences professor George N.
Somero, director of Hopkins Marine Station since 2000, said in a
statement released by Hopkins.

Powers, who was born in Dearborn, Michigan, served in the Marine Corps
before earning his bachelor`s degree from Ottawa University in Ottawa,
Kan., in 1963. He completed his doctorate at the University of Kansas
in 1970. He conducted postdoctoral research at State University of New
York-Stony Brook and at the Marine Biology Laboratory at Woods Hole,
Massachusetts, from 1970 to 1972.

Before joining the Hopkins Marine Station, Powers was a member of the
Johns Hopkins University faculty from 1972 to 1988, where he served as
chairman of the biology department, director of the McCollum-Pratt
Institute for Biochemistry and acting director of the Chesapeake Bay
Institute.

"During his tenure as director, Hopkins became one of the world's
leading centers for the study of molecular marine biology," Somero
said.

While at the Pacific Grove marine facility, Hopkins worked with
colleagues at the neighboring Monterey Bay Aquarium and helped launch
the Tuna Research and Conservation Center — the only facility in North
America where tuna can be studied in captivity.

Powers also served on the editorial boards of two journals —
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology and Biological Oceanography —
and was founding editor of the journal Marine Molecular Biology and
Biotechnology.