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A

•  Crustal deformation measurement and interpretation
•  Geophysical data analysis
•  Geophysical instrumentation
•  History of the Earth sciences

•  Microbial genomics and metagenomics
•  Microbial oceanography
•  Genetic structure of microbial populations
•  Molecular genetics and ecological physiology of microbial "secondary lipid" biosynthesis (e.g., omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids)

•  Production, consumption, and burial of marine organic matter
•  Chemistry and biology of marine dissolved organic matter
•  Natural abundance 14C dating of marine organic matter
•  Natural abundance d15N measurements of marine organic matter
•  Microbial interactions with the Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles.

•  Stratified flows in the ocean, atmosphere, laboratory, and engineering applications
•  Oceanic mixing and circulation
•  Coherent vortices (meddies)

•  Physical and chemical processes in the space medium
•  Solid state chemistry
•  Environmental record in ocean sediments
•  Origin and early evolution of ocean-atmosphere
•  Molecular evolution toward life
•  RNA component formation by inorganic, geochemically plausible processes
•  Origin and early evolution of ocean-atmosphere
•  Molecular evolution toward life
•  RNA component formation by mineral surface reactions

•  Microbial oceanography; marine biogeochemistry; coral microbiology
•  Biochemical adaptations of marine bacteria
•  Role of bacteria in marine food-web dynamics

B

•  Relativity
•  Core-mantle boundary phenomenon
•  Core fluid mechanics
•  Inversion of geomagnetic data

•  The geochemistry of amino acids with an emphasis on diagenetic reactions and their implications and applications
•  The sources and stability of organic compounds on the primitive Earth and other solar system bodies
•  The detection of possible remnants of ancient life on Mars both by in situ analyses on the planet, and from the study of Martian meteorites
•  Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic chronologies obtained from animal teeth

•  Ecology of Seabirds and Cetaceans
•  Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Management
•  Species Diversity Patterns and Trends in Space and Time (Interannual to Regime Shift Scales)

•  Biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems, especially Fe, Ni, Cu
•  Biological transformations of trace metal speciation; biological acquisition of trace metals
•  Photochemical redox cycling of trace metals
•  Metals as limiting or co-limiting micronutrients in marine planktonic systems

•  Marine mammal population dynamics
•  Marine mammal survey methods
•  Conservation biology
•  Cetacean acoustics
•  Acoustic and fisheries impacts

•  Deep-sea microbial diversity and ecology
•  Adaptations of deep-sea microbes to high pressure and low temperature
•  Microbial genetics, genomics, functional genomics

•  Calcium regulation in spawning Pacific salmon
•  Agricultural applications of methanol effects on plant growth
•  Arsenic metabolism in marine organisms

•  Cenozoic paleoceanography based on deep-sea sediments
•  Multidecadal climate fluctuations from marine varves and tree rings
•  Climate and ecosystem response

•  Rock mechanics laboratory experiments, high-speed friction and direct shear experiments, physical properties.
•  Theoretical developments in earthquake physics relating changes in fault rheology during the earthquake cycle and the onset of unstable slip (origins of slow and fast earthquakes etc.).
•  Long-term ocean observatory developments. Combining offshore geodetics and physical oceanography to facilitate enhanced integrated cross-disciplinary marine science.
•  Marine hydrological/geochemical instrumentation development to study the interactions between hydrology/gas hydrates/active tectonic and aqueous geochemical variations.

•  Shallow-water ocean acoustic propagation
•  Ambient noise inversions for sediment geoacoustic properties
•  3-D acoustic propagation in range-dependent channels
•  Acoustic imaging using ambient noise (acoustic daylight)
•  Volcano acoustics
•  Bubble dynamics
•  Bubble acoustics (collective oscillations)
•  Sediment acoustics
•  Waves in porous media
•  Causality and the transient solutions of partial differential wave equations
•  High Doppler airborne sources for underwater acoustics research
•  Statistical properties of sand grain shapes
•  Packing statistics of irregular particles
•  Ambient noise profiling in the deep (11 km) ocean
•  Underwater detection and modeling of sonic booms
•  Acoustic pulse propagation in dispersive media
•  Very-high-energy neutrino detection in the ocean

•  Population genetics and genomics of marine organisms
•  Evolutionary biology and molecular ecology
•  Molecular adaptations to environmental stress

C

•  Plate tectonics, global plate reorganizations, Cenozoic motion between East and West Antarctica, structure of the Ross Sea, tectonics of the South Pacific
•  Geomagnetism, geomagnetic polarity reversal timescale, magnetization of the oceanic crust, paleo-intensity variations of the geomagnetic field.

•  Petrology and isotope geochemistry of MORB and OIB
•  Petrologic and tectonic evolution of the western Pacific
•  Mantle geodynamics

•  Models of the oceanic general circulation
•  Convection in geophysical fluids
•  Models of climate dynamics

•  Paleoceanography/paleoclimatology
•  Isotope tracers of climate change
•  Deep sea sediment record of biogeochemical cycling

•  Long-term change in pelagic zooplankton and fish, including climate-biota interactions
•  Role of zooplankton in the marine nitrogen cycle
•  Effects of weather and air-sea interactions on plankton and fishes
•  Ecology of marine zooplankton and fish
•  The biological pump, including the role of particles and plankton
•  Ocean acidification
•  Instrument development

•  Paleomagnetism and geomagnetism
•  Recent and long term secular variation and reversals of the geomagnetic field
•  Inverse problems
•  Applications of statistical techniques in geophysics
•  Electrical conductivity of the mantle
•  Paleo and rock magnetic databases

•  Electrical conductivity of crust and mantle
•  Seafloor instrumentation
•  Geophysical data analysis and inversion

•  Physical volcanology
•  Volcanic evolution of large, ignimbrite-producing calderas
•  Petrogenesis of intermediate to silicic magmas
•  Petrogenesis and geochemistry of continental, volcanic-arc systems
•  Geoscience education/pedagogy; addressing student misconceptions in geoscience classes;

•  Roughness of sea surface
•  Growth of wind waves
•  Thermal microstructure in the ocean
•  Generation of internal waves
•  Electrical conductivity of the ocean lithosphere
•  Electric fields generated by oceanic motions
•  Marine instrumentation

•  Tectonics and geological history of NE Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia

D

•  Lagrangian observation of ocean currents
•  Ocean instrumentation and autonomous vehicles
•  Ocean's role in climate
•  Coastal dynamics and climate impacts on coastal ecosystems

•  Isotope geochemistry
•  Igneous and metamorphic petrology and volcanology
•  Mantle dynamics
•  Ore Genesis
•  Planetary differentiation processes
•  Solar System formation and evolution
•  Cosmochemistry

•  Benthic ecology
•  Marine conservation and policy
•  Evolution and natural history
•  General ecology

•  Ocean acidification
•  Quality control of oceanic carbon dioxide measurements
•  Biogeochemistry of the upper ocean
•  Marine inorganic chemistry
•  Thermodynamics of electrolyte solutions at high temperatures and pressures
•  Analytical chemistry of carbon dioxide in seawater

•  Seismology, especially seismic structure of the seafloor
•  Scholte waves
•  Seafloor instrument development, especially of Ocean-Bottom Seismometers (OBSs) and seismic sources
•  Current: Seismic noise and fluid flow associated with tremor and slip

•  Lithospheric deformation
•  Sea-level fluctuations
•  Sedimentation and Stratigraphy

E

•  Climate dynamics
•  Sea ice
•  Paleoclimate
•  Large-scale circulation of the ocean and atmosphere

•  Aerosol variability and radiative forcing
•  Land-ocean-atmosphere coupling
•  Climate variability of the tropics and tropical cyclones
•  Cloud feedbacks
•  Remote sensing

F

•  Physiology of hydrothermal vent community animals
•  Interactions between invertebrates and chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts
•  Molecular approaches to study the metabolism of bacterial symbionts

•  Chemistry of marine plants, microorganisms and invertebrate animals.
•  Utilization of marine-derived compounds for the treatment of various human diseases, in particular cancer and infectious diseases.

•  Crustal deformation
•  Space geodesy (InSAR/GPS)
•  Earthquake physics
•  Volcanology

•  Physical-biological coupling from microscale to mesoscale
•  Analytical and numerical models of coupled physical-biological systems
•  Phytoplankton production at fronts, internal waves, and in turbulence
•  Red tides and harmful algal blooms

•  Glaciology of ice shelves and ice streams
•  Antarctic ice sheet mass balance
•  Satellite radar and laser altimetry

G

•  Microbial Genome Annotation; Comparison of whole genomes in closely related organisms and identification of laterally transferred genes using comparative operon structure for gene function and assignment
•  Alternative Splicing in Eukaryotic Genes in humans, mice and rats. Impact on protein structure, emphasis on transcription factors. Impact in cancer related genes and genes expressed in embryonic development
•  Regulation of RNA; Comparative identification of microRNA genes, prediction of mRNA targets of microRNA genes, prediction of pre-mRNA targets of RNA binding proteins, reconstruction of regulatory networks for RNA expression

•  Processes of remanence acquisition in igneous rocks and the origin of associated magnetic anomalies
•  Application of paleomagnetic/anomaly data to crustal accretionary processes
•  Quantitative analysis of silicate and magnetic fabrics in cumulate rocks
•  Studies of past geomagnetic field variations, particularly intensity fluctuations

•  Hydrology
•  Hydroclimatology
•  Hydrometeorology
•  Water Resources Planning and Management

•  Biosynthesis of Marine Natural Products
•  Biofuel Production by Cultured Marine Microalgae
•  Anticancer, Antiinflammatory, Tropical Disease Drug Discovery
•  Marine Natural Products Drug Discovery
•  Molecular Genetics of Cyanobacterial Natural Products Biosynthesis
•  Molecular Evolution of Natural Product Pathways in Marine Cyanobacteria
•  Elicitation of Natural Products Biosynthesis
•  Cyanobacterial Phylogenetics

•  Development of fossil turbulence theory.
•  Analysis of towed microstructure data.
•  Fluid dynamics of hot/cold/fresh water discharges into the coastal ocean.
•  Studies of mixed layer development and oceanic diffusive phenomena by towed small-scale sensors.
•  Theory of turbulent mixing.
•  Measurement of fluxes of heat, momentum, and moisture over the open ocean from FLIP and aircraft.
•  Theory and laboratory measurements of turbulent properties.
•  Laboratory studies of stratified turbulence.
•  Theoretical and experimental study of beamed zombie turbulence maser action mixing chimney mechanism of vertical transport of information and hydrophysical fields in the ocean and in astrophysical systems.
•  Big bang turbulence theory. Hydrogravitational dynamics. New cosmology.

•  Chemistry of methane seeps
•  Geochemistry of interstitial waters in marine sediments

•  Normal mode theory
•  Inverse problems
•  Earthquake source mechanisms
•  Deep aspherical structure
•  Anelasticity in the earth
•  Low-frequency networks
•  Seismic ray imaging

•  Satellite oceanography
•  Southern Ocean dynamics, eddy mixing, air-sea interaction
•  Ocean response to bathymetry

•  Pollution transport and dilution in the surf zone
•  Beach and cliff erosion
•  Regional wave networks

H

•  Structure, function and dynamics of the plasma membrane during embryonic development.
•  Live cell and and super resolution imaging of embryos.
•  ABC transporters in development and environmental toxicology.
•  Emerging marine pollutants and methods for predicting pollutant persistence.

•  Systematics & evolution of fishes
•  Biogeography
•  Evolution of behavior
•  Marine conservation
•  Behavioral ecology of fishes

•  Evolution of convergent plate margins of western Pacific, and origin of back-arc basins such as Parece Vela Basin, Lau Basin, and Mariana Trough
•  Origin and emplacement of ophiolites on convergent plate margins
•  Crustal evolution, western Pacific Basin, and western North America

•  Research: Antarctic fish antifreeze proteins and nucleation
•  Administrative: strategic research planning, partnerships, and safety issues, especially in field and laboratory work

•  Solution of Laplace's tidal equations for deep-sea tides including solid Earth loading
•  Mean circulation of the Adriatic Sea
•  Continental-shelf circulation
•  Two-dimensional and quasi-geostrophic turbulence
•  Internal waves and fine structure
•  Tides and ocean normal modes
•  Large-scale ocean circulation

•  Marine mammal population census using acoustics
•  Impact of anthropogenic sound on marine mammals
•  Field studies in: southern California, Gulf of California, Hawaii, offshore Washington, Bering Sea, Arctic, Southern Ocean, Pacific Islands, Gulf of Mexico

•  Noble gas geochemistry of mantle-derived rocks and fluids
•  Volatile mass balance of subduction zones
•  Stable isotope-noble gas isotope and relative abundance relationships in oceanic basalts
•  Hydrogeological applications of noble gases

•  Adaptive digital signal processing and time series analysis with applications to adaptive array processing
•  Time-evolving spatial distribution and statistical characterization of ambient ocean noise
•  Propagation of acoustic energy through the water column and its interaction with the surface and bottom
•  Matched-field processing and full-field inversions for water column and seafloor geoacoustic parameters
•  Acoustic communications
•  Tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation and environmental parameter inversions
•  Wireless sensor networks
•  Software defined radio

•  Developmental evolution (using comparative molecular genetics to establish body part homologies between distantly related animals), with attention to the origin of the vertebrates from the invertebrates

•  Marine Microbial Natural Products
•  Natural Product Target Identification
•  Natural Product Total Synthesis and Semisynthesis

I

•  Upper bound theory
•  Turbulence and stability

•  Coastal processes: transport of sediment by winds, waves, and currents and application to coastal morphology
•  Wave climate and coastal evolution
•  Water quality; sediment and sorbed contaminents in runoff
•  Paleocoastlines and marine archaeology

J

•  Paleobiology and macroevolution
•  Speciation and extinction
•  Ecology and paleoecology of coral reefs
•  Marine conservation
•  Bryozoans and mollusks

K

•  The role of fluids in the transport of heat and solutes and into the ocean, atmosphere, and mantle in subduction zones
•  Gas hydrates and global change
•  Chemical paleoceanography
•  Sedimentary geochemistry and diagenesis: mineralogical, chemical, and isotopic studies of recent and older sediments
•  Processes responsible for the formation of submarine hydrothermal deposits
•  The origin of present day and ancient phosphorites, dolomites, and cherts

•  Measurements of variations in atmospheric oxygen
•  Recent perturbations to the global carbon cycle
•  Air-sea gas exchange
•  Detection of ocean heat storage and transport using atmospheric gases
•  Paleoclimate theory

•  Global environmental science
•  Science Policy
•  Astrophysics
•  Space plasma physics
•  Earth Observations

•  Marine biodiversity
•  Ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics of coral reef organisms
•  Speciation
•  Marine conservation

•  Diving behavior in marine vertebrates, especially emperor penguins.
•  Population trends and conservation of marine reptiles, birds, and mammals.

•  Global acoustic propagation
•  Noise and signal processing
•  Inversion and time reversal acoustics
•  Seismic imaging with noise

L

•  Food-web interactions involving micro- and mesozooplankton
•  Population and community ecology of plankton
•  Physical-biological coupling

•  evolution and seismic imaging of the Hawaiian mantle plume, volcanic chain and swell
•  seismic anisotropy and mantle dynamics, on land and in the oceans
•  regional and global seismology
•  analysis methods for seismic surface waves and free oscillations
•  reference earth models
•  seismic noise and the development and propagation of storms
•  natural disasters and global change

•  Ecology and oceanography of coastal systems
•  Longterm environmental and climate variability
•  Internal waves, nutrient dynamics, and larval transport
•  Marine conservation ecology

•  Invertebrate and fish life histories, dispersal, demography, and evolution
•  Community ecology of soft-bottom assemblages in deep-sea and intertidal habitats
•  Animal-sediment interactions
•  Ecology of methane seeps, oxygen minimum zones
•  Biodiversity of sediment ecosystems
•  Connectivity in coastal ecosystems

•  Fluid mechanics.
•  Asymptotic methods.
•  Applied and industrial mathematics.

•  Structural geomorphology of plate boundary zones
•  Tectonic history of the Pacific basin
•  Geology of seamounts and guyots

M

•  Internal waves
•  Turbulence and mixing
•  Coastal dynamics

•  Chemical sensor development
•  Aqueous carbon dioxide chemistry
•  Marine chemistry & biogeochemistry

•  The study the fine structure of the earth and the 3-D structure of the mantle and core using body waves, surface waves, and free oscillations
•  Development of reference Earth models and the integration of mineral physics, geodynamics, and geochemistry into Earth models

•  Large scale patterns in space and time and the California El Niño
•  Diversity maintenance
•  Biogeography
•  Time-series in coastal California

•  Fluid Mechanics
•  Air-sea interaction
•  Nonlinear surface and internal waves
•  Upper ocean turbulence and mixing
•  Optical, acoustic and microwave remote sensing

•  Propagation and attenuation of seismic waves
•  Nuclear monitoring by geoohysical means
•  Applications of space geodesy to the study of plate motions and deformation
•  Mass balance of polar ice sheets
•  Intermediate-term earthquake prediction
•  Precise airborne and spaceborne laser altimetry and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)
•  Numerical modeling of Earthquakes and their effects in a grid framework

•  Atmospheric Chemistry
•  Physical Chemistry (Gas Phase Chemical Kinetics; Photochemistry; Heterogeneous Chemistry)
•  Urban, Regional and Global Air Pollution
•  Climate Change: Science and Policy Issues

•  Apoptosis
•  Cell Cycle Regulation
•  Marine Natural Products
•  Medicinal Chemistry
•  NMR
•  Organic Synthesis

•  Marine Microbial Biosynthesis and Bioengineering
•  Marine Microbial Genomes
•  Marine Microbial Natural Product Discovery

•  Marine mammal population genetics and phylogeography
•  Genomics and genetics technologies for conservation biology
•  Conservation genetics

•  Global acoustics
•  Greenhouse warming
•  Tides
•  Air-sea boundary

N

•  Systematics of Cirripedia
•  Origin and evolution of crustaceans
•  Biogeography
•  Past and present oceanic islands.

•  Cloud feedbacks and global warming
•  Coupled atmosphere-ocean variability
•  Effects of climate change on California
•  Boundary-layer cloud processes
•  Aerosol-cloud interactions
•  Solar dimming and brightening

•  Paleoceanography of Paleogene and Cretaceous warm climates
•  Role of plankton evolution in biogeochemical cycles
•  Origins of deep-sea unconformities
•  Oceanographic control on plankton distributions
•  Structure and dynamics of large-scale diversification in the history of life

•  Evolutionary neurobiology
•  Evolution of vertebrates
•  Changes in central nervous system characters that have occurred during vertebrate evolution, the functional significance of these changes, and the phylogenetic relationships that exist. CNS evolution

O

•  Computational Geosciences
•  Explosive Volcanic Eruptions
•  Computational Fluid Dynamics
•  Fluid-Structure Interactions

•  Population ecology of marine zooplankton, especially planktonic copepods
•  Mortality estimation and other demographic techniques
•  Zooplankton prey-predator interactions
•  Climate change effects on California Current pelagic food webs
•  California Current Ecosystem LTER site
•  Autonomous measurement methods (Spray ocean gliders, moorings)

•  Internal structure of ocean spreading centers; genesis of the oceanic lithosphere
•  Structure of the elastic earth using seismology, synthetic seismograms, and geophysical inverse theory
•  Ocean seismo-acoustics including rough seafloor scattering, acoustic-elastic interactions, and the use of small arrays
•  Cyberinfrastructure applications in geophysics including sensor networking, visualization, cloud computing and workflows
•  Nuclear test-ban verification methods.

•  History of Science
•  Science Policy
•  Women in Science

P

•  Marine genomics and metagenomics
•  Phytoplankton diversity and evolution
•  Adaptations of phytoplankton to their physical and chemical environments, especially nutrient limitation and metal toxicity
•  Algal biofuels

•  Geophysical inverse theory
•  Geomagnetism
•  Spectral methods for potential theory
•  Gravity interpretation
•  Electromagnetic sounding

•  Population dynamics
•  Ecology and evolution of marine mammals

•  The energy cascade in the ocean
•  The space-time geography of ocean mixing
•  Oceanic internal waves, wave generation and wave breaking
•  Arctic oceanography
•  Tropical oceanography
•  Ocean observation techniques, instrumentation, sensors
•  Zooplankton interaction with the physical environment

•  Health effects of air pollution
•  Air-sea exchange
•  Air pollution in developing countries
•  Climate change
•  Heterogeneous chemistry
•  Aerosol-cloud interactions
•  On-line analysis of aerosol mixing state
•  Radiative forcing of aerosols
•  Development of analytical methods for particle analysis

R

•  Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABC)
•  Air-sea interactions
•  Climate Change Mitigation
•  Clouds, aerosols, greenhouse gases, and climate
•  Earth radiation budget measurements
•  Lightweight Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles as Research Platforms

•  General circulation of world oceans and distribution of water characteristics including temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, and isotopes
•  Zooplankton
•  California Current
•  Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans
•  Geostrophic shear and isopycnal extensions

•  Role of the oceans in climate and climate variability
•  General circulation of the oceans
•  The California Current System

•  Fishes of the eastern tropical Pacific
•  Biochemical genetics of fishes
•  Bathypelagic fish fauna of the North Pacific
•  Functional morphology of fishes

•  Animal phylogeny, biodiversity and taxonomy, particularly annelids and echinoderms
•  Evolution of life history strategies in marine animals
•  Evolution of whalefall, hydrothermal vent and methane seep fauna
•  Seadragon (Syngnathidae) phylogeny and phylogeography

•  Physical and biological dynamics of the upper ocean
•  Fronts and eddies
•  Air-sea interaction

•  Aerosol chemistry and physics
•  Aerosol-cloud interactions
•  Air-sea exchange
•  Organic aerosols
•  Atmospheric nanoparticles

S

•  Theory of the ocean's general circulation
•  Geophysical fluid dynamics

•  Conservation biology
•  Mathematical ecology
•  Coral reef ecology

•  Geodynamics
•  Satellite Remote Sensing and Geodesy
•  Charting the Remote Ocean Basins

•  Tectonic History of the Southwest Indian Ridge with emphasis on the Andrew Bain Mega-transform Fault.
•  Thermal models of old ocean floor
•  History of science
•  Heat flow and subsidence of the continental margins of the Gulf of California

•  Quantitative ecology, stable isotope analysis, stock assessment, marine ecology, conservation biology, coral reef ecology, fisheries management

•  Thermohaline circulation (Atlantic MOC, Mediterranean)
•  Water mass formation and effects
•  Boundary current observations
•  Coastal circulation and processes
•  Ocean-climate interaction, CO2 uptake, acidification
•  Physical-biogeochemical and ecosystem interactions
•  Multi-disciplinary timeseries observations
•  Global and coastal ocean observing systems
•  Ocean observing techniques

•  Quantification of abrupt temperature changes using measurements of nitrogen and argon isotopes in ice cores
•  Mechanisms of millennial-scale climate oscillations and climate bifurcations
•  Pleistocene global carbon cycle variations deduced from oxygen and noble gas measurements in ice cores
•  Reconstructing changes in atmospheric noble gas composition over the past million years from air trapped in glacial ice
•  Radiocarbon of methane in late glacial-age ice as a test of the sedimentary methane clathrate degassing hypothesis.
•  Isotopic fractionation of air in polar firn (snow) due to gravitational settling and thermal diffusion, with implications for gas age-ice age differences and leads and lags of climate versus greenhouse gases in ice core records

•  Structure of Earth's mantle and core
•  Earthquake properties
•  Seismicity of southern California
•  Seismic processing methods

•  Coral Reef Ecology
•  Conservation Biology
•  Invasion Biology
•  Phycology
•  Human Impacts on Marine Communities
•  Ocean Acidification

•  Geophysical fluid dynamics
•  Thermal convection
•  Computational methods
•  Predictability
•  Atmospheric modeling
•  Numerical weather prediction
•  Radiative transfer
•  Cloud physics
•  Climate

•  Computational geodynamics
•  Dynamics of the lithosphere
•  Achieving a fully dynamical theory for plate tectonics
•  Global tectonics and the history plate motions
•  Mantle dynamics
•  Subduction processes
•  Tectonic evolution of western North America
•  Planetary geophysics: thermal and tectonic evolution of icy and terrestrial planets and moons
•  Rotational stability of planets
•  Core-mantle boundary interactions
•  Archean geodynamics
•  Formation and dispersal of supercontinents
•  Application of high-performance computing and advanced visualization systems to geodynamics
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•  Ocean optics
•  Radiative transfer in the ocean
•  Particle optics
•  Ocean optical properties
•  Light fields within and leaving the ocean
•  Optics of air-sea interface
•  Optical remote sensing of marine environments
•  Optical-biological interactions in the ocean
•  Ocean carbon stocks and dynamics
•  Coastal oceanography
•  Monitoring and observational work in the marine environment
•  Optical methods in oceanography
•  Development of optical instrumentation

•  Developing derivatives markets and by-catch avoidance incentives for fisheries
•  Systemic risk in the financial sector
•  Market mechanisms for marine conservation
•  Complexity theory
•  Nonlinear dynamics
•  Landscape ecology
•  Food-web structure
•  Species abundance patterns
•  Conservation biology/biological control
•  Neuroscience and behavior
•  Cardiology
•  Empirical climate modeling
•  Fisheries forecasting
•  Quantitative finance

T

•  General circulation
•  Climate change in the oceans
•  Hydrography and water masses

•  The behavior of the ancient geomagnetic field: How long has the geomagnetic field been essentially dipolar? Why does the magnetic field reverse? How strong can the magnetic field get? How fast can it change?
•  Statistical analysis of paleomagnetic data.
•  Applications of paleomagnetic data to geological problems such as: The use of paleomagnetic data for geochronological control. The use of paleointensity variations as an additional magnetostratigraphic tool. The use of rock magnetic tools for recognizin
•  Rock fabrics: The use of paleomagnetic data in structural and tectonic problems

•  Physiology of aquatic organisms
•  pH, carbon dioxide and bicarbonate sensors
•  Intracellular signaling
•  Ion transport and acid/base regulation
•  Epithelial physiology
•  Ocean Acidification

V

•  Fertilization in marine invertebrates
•  Molecular biology of gamete recognition proteins in marine invertebrates
•  Invertebrate immunity
•  Function of homologs of polycystin in sea urchins

W

•  Reconstruction of paleoatmospheres from ice core records in Greenland and Antarctica back to > 500,000 years covering at least 5 glacial/interglacial cycles; main emphasis is to reconstruct atmospheric CO2 and d13CO2.
•  Global biogeochemical cycles of radiatively important atmospheric trace gases; biosphere-atmosphere interaction.
•  Stable isotopes in atmospheric CO2 (d13C and d18O) to arrive at improved global carbon cycle budgets (in collaboration with C. D. Keeling).
•  Stable isotopes of Cl and Br in aerosols to determine if Cl and Br radicals are produced in the troposphere.
•  Investigations on CO2, CH4, 85Kr and N2O in the stratosphere (and their isotopic species 13C and 18O in CO2, 13C, D and 14C and CH4, 15N and 18O in N2O) to determine the troposphere/stratosphere air exchange rate.
•  Process-oriented studies to determine the significance of 18O in atmospheric CO2.

•  Distributions of trace gases in the global and regional atmosphere and in the oceans, with emphasis on halocarbons, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and methane.
•  Geochemical tracers of circulation, mixing, chemical and biological processes in the atmosphere, world oceans and deep lakes.

•  Complex systems, self-organization, geophysical pattern formation, Arctic landscapes and permafrost.
•  Human-landscape interactions, urban geomorphology, theory of modeling, models for science, human consciousness/free will, environmental management, social and economic human behavior, resistance and the Mexico-US border.

•  Circulation in lagoons and estuaries
•  Descriptions of coastal circulation
•  Wind-forced coastal circulation
•  Mixing and dispersion

•  Geologic history of the Pacific, including stratigraphy, sedimentation, seamount chains and tectonics
•  Comparisons between oceanic pelagic sediments and their analogues in folded mountain belts
•  Plate stratigraphy and the subsidence of ocean crust, oceanic atolls, and continental margins
•  Origin of atolls and barrier reefs

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•  Deep-sea biology
•  High pressure molecular biophysics
•  Radiation biology

•  Internal gravity waves
•  Two-dimensional and geostrophic turbulence
•  Tracer dispersion in fluid flows
•  The general circulation of the ocean

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