Qualifications Summary
• Participation in several deep-sea cruises since 1961 in the North, South Atlantic, and South Pacific collecting benthic organisms. Total accumulated sea time on oceanographic cruises in excess of 2 years. Scope of work involved construction of sampling and deck gear, travel and shipping logistics, sampling plans and sample and data handling and processing.
• Analysis of deep-sea benthic samples, microphotography of deep-sea benthic invertebrates; effects of oil spills on the marine benthic environment including erosion studies, construction and design of benthic dredging equipment; research on local bay scallops – growth and reproduction studies,.
• Minerals Management Service: biological monitoring program for Georges Bank, monitoring study of biological processes on the U.S. North Atlantic Slope and Rise; served as Chief Scientist for several of these MMS cruises for WHOI.
• Cape Cod Bay Material Disposal Site Designation study; cruise leader in field collections and data assimilation of fish collections and benthic samples for draft report.

Professional Affiliations

Friends of the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge (Board of Directors)
The Coalition for Buzzards Bay (Board of Advisors)
New England Estuarine Society
Editorial Board for Environmental Cape Cod
The 300 Committee Land Trust (Board of Advisors)
Chair – Falmouth Coastal Pond Management Committee.

Higher Education

B.S., Northeastern University (1960)

Employment History

2000-Present  Woods Hole Group, Inc.
1997-Present  School of Marine Science & Technology,                        University of Massachusetts Dartmouth —                        Senior Research Associate, Benthic                        Biology
1997-Present  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; 
                       Oceanographer Emeritus
1985-1990      Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,                        Managerof Marine Personnel
1980-1997      Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; 
                        Research Specialist
1966-1980       Research Associate
1961-1965       Army and Navy Reserves
1960-1961       U.S. Army Active Duty
1956-1958       Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; 
                         Research Assistant

Publications & Presentations

Publications involving benthic population dynamics and pollution monitoring:

2000 Howes, B.L., G.R. Hampson. Water Quality and Habitat Health of the Three Bays Estuarine System: Progress Report from the 1999 Field Season Technical Report Coastal Systems Program Center for Marine School & Technology; University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

2000 Hampson, G.R. Final Report: Testing of DVO Chaff on the Health of Marine Benthic Communities Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report.

2000 Hampson, G.R. Destruction and Recovery of the Winsor Cove, Cataumet Salt Marsh 25-Year History. Environment Cape Cod. Vol. 1 No.

1999 Howes, B. L., K. Smith & G. R. Hampson. Progress Report: West Falmouth harbor: Falmouth Disposal System on the Water Quality and Health of West Falmouth Harbor.

1997 B. Howes, et al. WHOI Blue cover, final Report Nantucket Harbor Study: A quantitative Assessment of the environmental Health of Nantucket harbor for the Development of a Nutrient Management Plan.

1987 Hampson, G.R. Introduction to the Scope and Severity of Coastal Degradation. Testimony before the Subcommittee no fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment of the Committee on Merchant Marine and fisheries; House of Representatives Statement of George R. Hampson, November 18, 1987. U.S. Government Printing Office Ser. No. 100-42:57-67.

1980 Sanders, H.L., J.F. Grassel, G. R. Hampson, L. Morse, and S. Garner Price. Anatomy of an oil spill: long-term effects from the gounding of the barge FLORIDA off West Falmouth, Massachusetts. Jour. Mar. Res. 38(2):265-380.

1978 Hampson, G.R. and E.T. Moul. No. 2 fuel oil spill in Bourne, Massachusetts: immediate assessment of the effects on marine invertebrates and a 3-year study of growth and recovery of a salt marsh. Jour. Fish. Res. Bd. Canada 35(5):731-744

1977 Hampson, G.R. and E.T. Moul. Salt marsh grasses and #2 fuel oil. Oceanus 20(4):25-30.

1972 Sanders, H.L., J.F. Grassle, and G.R. Hampson. The West Falmouth Oil Spill./ WHOI Ref. No. 72-20.

1971 Blumer, M., H. L. Sanders, J.F. Grassle, and G.R. Hampson. A small oil spill. Environment 13(2):1-12.

1965 Sanders, H.L., E. M. Goudsmit, E.L. Mills, and G. R. Hampson. A study of the intertidal fauna of Barnstable Harbor, MA

1965 Sanders, H.L., R.R. Hessler, and G.R. Hampson. An introduction to the study of deep-sea benthic faunal assemblages along the Gay Head-Bermuda transect. Deep-Sea Res. 12:845-867.


Selected publications: More than 23 published papers as author or co-author and a contributor in several reports on Deep Sea and Coastal Community Studies for Science Application International Corporation (SAIC), Woods Hole Group, Inc., and SMAST (UMA Dartmouth).