Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

crawfordk@citadel.edu

Isolation and chemical characterizion of novel marine biotoxins. This is primarily being accomplished using bioassay-guided fractionation employing large columns, solid phase extraction (SPE) and HPLC. Once a pure product is isolated, we will determine the structure using FTIR, NMR and MS. Current efforts involve isolating maitotoxin compounds produced by the dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus.

Teaching Electron Microscopy to a Citadel Cadet

Publications:

Qualitative Analysis of Common Cations and Anions in Water Samples: An Experiment for Nonscience Majors, M. B. Ellisor and K. D. Crawford, The Chemical Educator, 8/3, 195-198 (2003).

Water Quality of the Hampton Park Pond, Charleston, SC. B. Williams, A. Miller, A. Ybarra, Kevin Crawford, Poster presentation at The Citadel Undergraduate Research Conference, Charleston, SC, March 2003.

Purification and Structural Identification of Maitotoxins Produced by the Dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus Toxicus, M. B. Ellisor, K. D. Crawford, P. D. R. Moeller, S. L. Morton, Pittcon 2003, Orlando, FL, March 2003.

Quantitative Analysis of Phthalate Esters in Artificial Sea Salts, K. D. Crawford, P. Moeller, B. Mitchell, N. Wiggins, In Preparation for submission to Toxicon, January 2002.

Raman Vibrational Evidence for the Presence of Conjugated Regions in Individual Micron Diameter Polystyrene Particles Irradiated with Visible Radiation, K. D. Crawford and K. D. Hughes, Journal of Physical Chemistry B., 102, 2325 (1998).

Rapid Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Presence of Polystyrene in Polymer Particles of Mixed Composition, K. D. Crawford and K. D. Hughes, Journal of Polymer Science Part B, Polymer Physics Edition, 36, 999 (1998).

Rapid Formation and Spectroscopic Observation of Polystyrene Conjugation in Individual Micron-Diameter Particles with Visible Radiation, K. D. Crawford and K. D. Hughes, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 101, 864-870 (1997).