Graduate Students

Last Name Initial:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

•  Genetic regulation of carbon metabolism and triacylglycerol synthesis in diatoms
•  Algal biofuels

•  PhD research interests:
•  Effects of decadal climate variability and climate change on fisheries
•  Effect of ocean acidification on trophic interactions
•  Masters thesis research:
•  Impact of bottom fishing disturbance (e.g., scallop dredging and otter trawling) on the benthic megafaunal community of Georges Bank
•  Role of colonial epifauna in providing microhabitats for motile invertebrates and juvenile fishes

B

•  compound-specific isotopic analysis of organics
•  global biogeochemical carbon cycling

•  Crustal Deformation
•  Longbase Laser Strainmeters
•  Geodesy

•  Internal Waves
•  Geostatistical Methods and Time-Series Analysis

•  Ecosystem effects of recreational fishing
•  Artisanal Fisheries
•  Elasmobranchs

•  -Global measurement of atmospheric O2/Atmospheric Potential Oxygen -Air Sea Gas Exchange -C14 as a tracer of anthropogenic carbon, and human influence on the carbon cycle

•  Ocean Carbon Chemistry
•  Ocean Acidification

•  Developing chemical sensors to characterize the marine inorganic carbon system under the guidance of Prof. Todd Martz

•  Benthic community dynamics of coral reef systems
•  Spatial dynamics
•  Socio-ecological frameworks

•  Iron and copper speciation measurements
•  Microbial effects on trace metal cycling

C

•  Upper ocean dynamics Linear/nonlinear surface waves, wave-current interactions

•  Mechanisms of chemical defense and multixenobiotic resistance
•  Plasma Membrane alterations during cellular specification
•  Germline specification and migration during early embryogenesis
•  Marine invertebrate development

•  Population dynamics
•  Fisheries management and forecasting
•  Complex systems and self organization
•  Polar ecology

•  Gelatinous zooplankton (especially scyphozoans)
•  Population ecology and dynamics

•  Current research interests include cyanobacterial hydrocarbon biosynthesis. This research is focused on identifying and characterizing the genes and enzymes cyanobacteria utilize to convert fatty acids to hydrocarbons.

•  Surface gravity wave modeling in bathymetrically complex coastal regions

•  real-time GPS, geodesy, earthquake warning systems

D

•  Optical fiber sensors
•  Mechanics and acoustics
•  Algebraic topology
•  Differential geometry

E

F

•  Biogeography of springs in the Great Basin with an emphasis on thermal springs as refugia for vulnerable species.

•  Effects of changes in carbonate chemistry on the early life stage of marine invertebrates
•  Macrophyte induced variability of carbonate chemistry in the coastal ocean

G

•  Broadly: marine ecology, conservation biology, global change biology, ichthyology, plain old conservation, international development.
•  Specifically: Currently, my dissertation research focuses on the relationships between rocky reef cryptic fish communities in the Gulf of California, Gulf oceanography, and human populations.

•  Biogeochemical cycles governing air-sea exchange of particulate matter. Marine aerosol formation and CCN activation of marine matter. Phytoplankton responses to climate changes and how this affects cloud formation processes at the marine boundary layer.

•  Community assembly, successional dynamics, and food web structure on hard substrates at deep-sea chemosynthetic habitatsin the East Pacific: cold methane seeps on the Costa Rican and Oregon continental margins; Juan de Fuca hydrothermal vents.
•  How do different types of heterogeneity (geochemical, substrate, spatial), which are manifested in different scales of habitat patches, influence metacommunity dynamics at methane seeps and hydrothermal vents?
•  Marine community ecology
•  Deep-sea ecology
•  Larval dispersal and connectivity between patchy habitats
•  Rocky intertidal ecology and sea urchins
•  Anthropogenic effects on marine communities and ecosystems, especially the effects of global climate change on the deep sea.

H

•  Petrology and geochemistry of igneous rocks
•  Volatile geochemistry of igneous rocks, geothermal and volcanic fluids
•  Isotope geochemistry of mantle derived rocks and fluids

•  Geologic and Seismic Structure of Mid Ocean Ridges
•  Slow and Fast Spreading Centers
•  Oceanic Core Complexes
•  Active Source Seismics
•  Tectonics of Divergent Boundaries

•  Acquisition and assimilation of trace metals by marine bacteria
•  The biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in the marine environment

•  Phylogeny and biogeography of marine invertebrates
•  Coral reef ecology, evolution and conservation

I

J

•  Exercise and respiration physiology

•  Conservation of marine ecosystems from the perspective of seabirds, cetaceans, and fish
•  Changes in foraging ecology of tropical seabirds in the context of fisheries and climate change

K

•  Large whales and other cetaceans, regarding...
•  Their coastal ecology & acoustic behavior in coastal corridors,
•  The oceanographic bases for micro- and meso-scale habitat suitability,
•  Foraging ecology,
•  and their historical biogeography.

•  Marine biodiversity and conservation
•  Ecosystem resilience and recovery from disturbance
•  Interactions among algae, coral, and herbivores
•  Impacts and distribution of invasive algae
•  Human decision-making and policy

•  Climate impacts of aerosols
•  Atmospheric chemistry
•  Instrumentation development

L

•  The importance of trophic dynamics for the persistence and function of marine ecosystems.
•  The indirect effects of anthropogenic food-web alterations (e.g. overfishing) on habitat-forming species (e.g. seagrasses, kelps, corals) and the communities they support.

•  Ocean optics
•  Optical remote sensing
•  Global climate change

•  Lithosphere properties and rheology
•  Crustal deformation
•  Geodesy (InSAR, GPS)
•  Earthquake physics

M

•  sedimentation and tectonic evolution of the Southern California coast and shelf
•  links between geology and habitats at the coast, specifically San Diego Bay and offshore La Jolla
•  mapping the seafloor and sub-seafloor using geophysical techniques

•  Seismology
•  Deep earth structure, specifically core-mantle boundary

•  Earthquake seismology, real-time seismology, rapid source imaging spaceborne geodetic methods,tectonics of subduction zones.

•  Bioacoustics, marine mammal ecology

•  Fish population dynamics and connectivity
•  Fish/coral associations and responses to climate change
•  Influence of fishing on ecosystem structure and function
•  Marine protected areas
•  Marine conservation biology
•  Fisheries management and policy

•  Stratified flow over topography

N

•  Marine and global conservation
•  Marine fisheries ecology
•  Algal biofuels and products

•  Mesopelagic community dynamics
•  Global climate change impacts on ocean chemistry
•  Ecosystem-based management
•  Marine conservation
•  Acoustics

O

P

•  Satellite remote sensing of ice sheets, climate change, ice dynamics, sea ice
•  Radar and laser altimetry, InSAR and imagery

•  Marine microbial food web dynamics
•  Distribution and diversity of marine protists
•  The role of heterotrophic protists in carbon biogeochemical cycling

•  Microbial Oceanography & Biogeochemistry
•  Marine Microbial Ecology
•  Bacterial-viral interactions
•  Bacterial chemical communication

R

•  Carbon cycle
•  Using oxygen isotopes to measure oceanic primary production

•  Potential Fields in Geophysics
•  Electromagnetic Imaging Methods

•  Trace metal incorporation into diatom frustules
•  Paleonutrient records, particularly in the Southern Ocean

•  sea bird ecology
•  physiological and biochemical effects of pollutants
•  natural capital concepts
•  behavioral, genetic and physiological traits allowing adaptability to human stressors
•  physiological and behavioral effects of light

S

•  Thus far, my research interests have been in the field of environmental chemistry, investigating pollutant interactions, and distributions in the environment. I am now curious as to the ubiquity of certain natural analogs to these anthropogenic pollutants

•  cellular mechanisms of xenobiotic transport during development
•  environmental toxins and physiology of marine organisms
•  developmental biology of the sea urchin

•  Paleobiology
•  Biological Oceanography
•  Paleoceanography
•  Evolutionary Biology

•  Glaciology
•  Ice dynamics
•  Remote sensing of ice sheets
•  GPS applications on ice

•  Geomagnetism
•  Geomagnetic depth sounding
•  Time Series methods
•  Geomagnetic Hazards
•  Geomagnetic Storms

•  Marine Ecology, Fish Behavior, Reproductive Ichthyology, Fisheries Ecology and Management, Marine Reserves, Conservation Biology.

T

•  Size spectra of the microbial community
•  Epifluorescence microscopy
•  Flow Cytometry

U

•  Microbial Ecology
•  Bioinformatics
•  Molecular Biology

V

W

•  I am interested in the effects of ocean acidification on the behavior and ecology of fishes.

•  Dissertation: "Linking Ecosystem-Based Management to Conservation: Understanding and Mitigating Bycatch of Small Cetaceans in Artisanal Fisheries." My fieldwork focuses on four populations of Irrawaddy dolphins in the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia
•  Proximate and ultimate explanations for how human activity and marine megafauna overlap in space and time, including ecological, socioeconomic, and cultural factors.
•  Conservation of marine tetrapods, with a focus on coastal species in tropical developing nations.
•  Behavioral ecology, with a focus on habitat use and ecological determinants of sociality of marine tetrapods.
•  Ecosystem-based management of artisanal fisheries in tropical developing nations.
•  Macroecology of open-ocean ecosystems

•  Oceanic Carbon Cycle
•  Bubble Spectroscopy
•  Topographic Rectification
•  Bio-optical measurements of Phytoplankton mass

X

Y

•  Ecosystem stability
•  Ecological network (food-web) structure
•  Nonlinear dynamics & forecasting
•  Fisheries management
•  Ecosystem spatial structure

•  Underwater acoustics, ambient noise, signal processing, scattering problems

Z

•  Southern Ocean dynamics
•  Pseudo-Lagrangian observations
•  Physical-Biological Interactions
•  The general circulation of the ocean