institute of marine sciences

Faculty and researchers by primary area of focus:

Coastal Biology

Mark Carr, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Marine ecology, applied marine ecology

Phillip Crews, Professor of Chemistry: Marine natural products chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, organic struc-tural analysis by NMR, natural products of marine macro and microorganisms

Laurel Fox, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Terrestrial population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions

Roger Linington, Assistant Professor of Chemistry: Marine natural products; drugs for neglected diseases; chemi-cal biology; chemical probes

Ingrid Parker, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Plant ecology, plant-pathogen interactions, biological invasions

John Pearse, Professor Emeritus of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Repro-ductive ecology of marine inverte-brates and nearshore ecology

Grant Pogson, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Molecular population genetics, ecological genetics, marine invertebrates and fishes

Donald Potts, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Coral reef ecology, genetics, evolution, and geological history; marine biodiversity; tropical biology, global change, and remote sensing

Peter Raimondi, Chair & Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Marine ecology, evolutionary ecology, experimental design, applied ecology

Fisheries and Fishery Management

Giacomo Bernardi, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Fish biology, phylogenetics, evolution

Carlos Garza, Adjunct Professor of Ocean Sciences: Population and ecological genetics of marine organisms

Marc Mangel, Professor of Applied Mathematics & Statistics: Mathematical modeling of biological phenomena, especially quantitative issues in fishery management

Eric Palkovacs, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Freshwater ecology, eco-evolutionary dynamics, fisheries and fish ecology

Marine and Coastal Geology

Andrew Fisher, Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences: Hydrogeology, crustal studies and fluid flow, hydro-logic modeling

James Gill, Professor Emeritus of Earth & Planetary Sciences: Chemical evolution of continental and oceanic crust, and short-lived radionuclides in young volcanic rocks

Gary Griggs, Director of IMS, Profes-sor of Earth & Planetary Sciences: Coastal processes, hazards and engineering, effects of sea-level rise

Casey Moore, Professor Emeritus of Earth & Planetary Sciences: Structural geology, accretionary prisms, faulting

Eli Silver, Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences: Marine geology and geophysics, active tectonics, remote sensing

Marine & Coastal Policy

Zdravka Tzankova, Assistant Profes-sor of Environmental Studies: Environ-mental and marine policy

Marine Vertebrate Biology

Daniel Costa, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Physiological ecology of marine mammals and birds

Donald Croll, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Ecology and conservation of islands and seabirds

James Estes, Adjunct Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Community ecology, species interactions

Burney LeBoeuf, Professor Emeritus Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Marine mammal behavior

Rita Mehta, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Comparative marine physiology

Shawn Noren Kramer, Associate Researcher: Comparative physiological ecology of marine vertebrates

Colleen Reichmuth, Associate Researcher: Pinniped cognition and perception, including cross-modal (auditory-visual) emergent learning in sea lions and assessment of hearing in marine mammal.

Scott Shaffer, Assistant Researcher: Links between ecology, morphology, and physiological adaptations of marine vertebrates.

Terrie Williams, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Large mammal physiology, bioenergetics, exercise and environmental physiology

Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology

Russell Flegal, Professor of Microbiol-ogy & Environmental Toxicology: Anthropogenic perturbations of biogeo-chemical cycles, applications of isotopic tracers in anthropology and archaeology

Karen Ottemann, Professor of Microbiology & Environmental Toxicol-ogy: Environmental responses of pathogenic bacteria

Chad Saltikov, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Environmental Toxicol-ogy: Microbial anaerobic respiratory processes that influence biotransfor-mation of pollutants.

Donald Smith, Professor of Microbiol-ogy & Environmental Toxicology: Neurotoxicity, cellular and organismal responses to environmental toxins

Fitnat Yildiz, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Environmental Toxicol-ogy: Microbiology, molecular genetics, genomics; the mechanism of persis-tence of survival of Vibrio cholerae

Oceanography & Ocean Processes

Kenneth Bruland, Professor of Ocean Sciences: Chemical oceanog-raphy, biogeochemistry of trace metals and radionuclides, aquatic chemistry, geochemistry

Patrick Chuang, Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences: Clouds, aerosols and climate

Christopher Edwards, Associate Professor of Ocean Sciences: Physical oceanography, numerical modeling of coastal- and basin-scale dynamics

Jerome Fiechter, Assistant Researcher: Physical-biological interactions in the ocean using coupled models of ocean circulation and marine ecosystems

Tom Guilderson, Associate Researcher: Climate variability and the carbon cycle; past, present, and future

Raphael Kudela, Professor of Ocean Sciences: Ecological modeling and remote sensing, satellite oceanography, phytoplankton ecology and harmful algal blooms

Zbigniew Kolber, Researcher: Mechanisms of photosynthesis in marine algae, in photosynthetic bacteria, and in terrestrial plants; development of scientific and commercial instrumentation to characterize photosynthetic perfor-mance in these organisms

Baldo Marinovic, Associate Researcher: Plankton biology, Euphau-siid (krill) population biology, zooplank-ton ecology, pelagic food web dynam-ics, climate change potential impacts on zooplankton and fisheries

Matthew McCarthy, Associate Professor of Ocean Sciences: Organic geochemistry, marine organic geo-chemistry, global biogeochemical cycles

Cecile Mioni, Assistant Researcher: Environmental factors controlling aquatic microbial communities, structure and function

Andrew Moore, Professor of Ocean Sciences: Physical oceanography, numerical ocean modeling; air-sea interactions; ocean prediction

Gregory Rau, Researcher Recalled: Carbon/CO2 cycling, management, mitigation, and use; policy and societal actions

Mary Silver, Professor Emeritus of Ocean Sciences: Toxic phytoplankton and food webs; pelagic detrital communities; particle dynamics; plankton ecology

Jonathan Zehr, Chair & Professor of Ocean Sciences: Aquatic microbial ecology, biological oceanography

Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology, & Global Change

Matthew Clapham, Assistant Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences: Paleobiology, geobiology

Margaret Delaney, Professor of Ocean Sciences: Paleoceanography, marine geochemistry

Paul Koch, Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences: Isotope geochem-istry, paleobiology and ecology

Adina Paytan, Researcher: Biogeo-chemistry, paleoceanography, environ-mental and aquatic chemistry

Christina Ravelo, Professor of Ocean Sciences: Stable isotope geochemistry and chemical oceanography, paleoclimatology

Lisa Sloan, Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences: Past and future climate change, climate modeling, Earth system science

James Zachos, Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences: Paleoceanog-raphy, marine stratigraphy