Researchers

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

•  Conservation Ecology
•  Coastal Ecology
•  Mangrove Forests' Dynamics
•  Marine Reserves
•  Artisanal Fisheries
•  Gulf of California Ecoregion

B

•  Greenhouse gas studies
•  El Niño-Southern Oscillation
•  Climate forecast model development
•  Decadal climate change

•  Design and operation of a worldwide network of very broadband seismometers for the study of earthquake source mechanisms, Earth structure
•  Design and development of data acquisition and communication systems
•  Design and development of infrasonic sensors
•  Development of satellite telemetry for global seismic data transmission
•  Application of seismological techniques to the monitoring of nuclear weapons test limitation treaties

•  Magmatic and tectonic processes at oceanic spreading centers and evolution of ridge-transform plate boundaries, using the following methods: Morphology, gravity, drilling, computer modeling of mantle flow and melting
•  Numerical simulation of mantle deformation and seismic anisotropy
•  Hydroacoustic studies of nuclear test monitoring capabilities

•  Development of space geodetic methods-GPS and interferometric SAR
•  Crustal deformation, tectonics, and earthquake studies using space geodesy
•  Meteorological and climatological applications of GPS
•  Precise GIS and GPS, geophysical data archiving

•  Molecular biology and physiology of cyanobacteria
•  Bacterial motility and chemotaxis
•  Bacterial diversity

•  Wave climate variability in the NE Pacific, western North Atlantic, and circum-Antarctic oceans.
•  Microseismic source areas and distribution in relation to wave climate - global.
•  Inferences of climate variability from historic seismogram ambient noise studies - global.
•  Tide gauge data studies: storm surge, infragravity waves.
•  Coastal impacts of storm surge and storm waves under rising sea levels.
•  Ocean bottom ambient noise variability: wave climate associations.
•  Shear waves in marine sediments.

C

•  Vortex dynamics
•  Turbulence
•  Vortex stability

•  Links between global-regional climate varability and hydrologic fluctuations in North America
•  Impacts of climate varability and climate change on California
•  Large-scale exchange of heat and water between the ocean and the atmosphere

•  Large-scale oceanic circulation and observations with lagrangian drifters
•  Development of oceanographic instruments
•  Mixed Layer dynamics
•  Vortex dynamics

•  Development of seafloor geodetic techniques using GPS and precision acoustics
•  Seafloor crustal deformation at oceanic spreading centers and subduction thrust faults
•  GPS meteorology in ocean environments

•  The ocean insect Halobates
•  Marine insects in general
•  Biodiversity of aquatic insects in Southeast Asia

•  Southern Ocean
•  Wind-driven circulation
•  Eastern boundary currents
•  Acoustic Doppler techniques for direct measurement of velocity

•  Large-scale ocean circulation (observations and modeling)
•  Coastal and Equatorial circulation (observations and modeling)
•  Data analysis, inverse methods and data assimilation
•  Ocean acoustic remote sensing

D

•  Coupling between seismic fields on land and offshore underwater acoustic fields, including those created by land vehicle activity and nuclear tests.
•  Geophysical inversions with sources of opportunity.
•  Properties of naturally occurring sounds in the ocean, including surf zone activity.
•  Underwater vocalizations by marine mammals.
•  Acoustic particle velocity and other measurable physical phenomena associated with underwater acoustic fields.
•  Matched field processing.
•  Infrasonic air acoustics.
•  Interference patterns due to waveguide propagation.

•  The propagation and scattering of underwater sound
•  Bubble acoustics
•  Energy dissipation and air entrainment by breaking gravity waves
•  Oceanic ambient noise
•  Bioluminescence from Dinoflagellates

•  Geophysical inverse problems
•  Numerical modeling methods for infrasound propagation
•  Applications of infrasound and hydroacoustics to Nuclear Monitoring

•  Bioacoustical oceanography
•  Broadbandwidth target strength estimation and taxa identification
•  Development of multi-instrumented remote monitoring systems

•  Hydroclimatology of western North America
•  Medium- to long-range hydrologic forecasting
•  Land-air interactions

•  Marine meteorology
•  Coastal meteorology
•  Air-sea interaction

•  Changes in past ocean circulation and ventilation
•  Sources and cycling of marine dissolved and particulate carbon using AMS

E

•  Fisheries ecology and management; Life history, behavior, ecology, and evolution of marine fishes; Fish spawning aggregations; Marine fish population dynamics.

F

•  Surfzone and nearshore physical oceanograpy

•  Electromagnetic exploration of the oceanic lithospheric and mantle
•  Electromagnetic studies of large-scale oceanic motions, ocean, and earth tides

•  Role of aerosols on climate.
•  Sea salt, its transport and radiative forcing.
•  Light scattering by non-spherical particles.
•  Tropical cyclones and their interaction with ocean.

•  Regional shore processes
•  Beach erosion
•  Waves, climate, tides and sea level
•  Coastal development impacts
•  Tidal boundaries and mean-high-tide-lines

•  Radiation transfer theory; Satellite remote sensing, Inverse problems related to light scattering; Air-sea interactions; Ocean color; Carbon cycle; Climate change

G

•  Climate dynamics
•  Meteorology and hydroclimate
•  Climate and weather extremes
•  Climate - society interactions

•  Inverse problems in ocean acoustics, seismology, and electromagnetics
•  Sequential filtering (particle filters)
•  noise and signal processing in seismology and ocean acoustics.
•  Seismic imaging with noise.
•  Origin of Microseisms.
•  Tropospheric electromagnetic propagation and environmental parameter inversions.
•  Matched-field processing and full-field inversions for water column and seafloor geoacoustic parameters.

•  Innate Immunity
•  Genomics
•  Drug Discovery
•  Zebrafish

•  Physiological ecology of phytoplankton
•  Ecology of the tropical and subtropical open ocean
•  Isotopic tracers in marine systems

H

•  Rifting of continental lithosphere
•  Ridge Crest Processes
•  Oceanic Crustal structure
•  Three-D tomographic study of the Clipperton Transform
•  Modeling and evolution of Moho at oceanic ridges
•  Reflection seismic processing

•  Analysis of acoustic signals from large-scale atmospheric phenomena
•  Reduction of noise due to atmospheric turbulence
•  Use of seismic and acoustic energy for nuclear test ban verification
•  Structure of Earth's crust and mantle

•  Bubble nucleation in gas supersaturated liquids
•  Gas bubble disease in animals
•  Respiratory and cardiovascular functions in fishes

•  High resolution geological repositories of the variability of coastal circulation along the western shores of the Americas
•  High resolution studies of Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate
•  Interaction and evolution of eastern boundary currents with global climate
•  Sensitivity of calcitic and opaline phyto and zooplancton to ocean circulation changes

•  Diatom silicon metabolism and silica cell wall synthesis
•  Diatom nanotechnology
•  High resolution imaging
•  Diatom genomics/transcriptomics and transgenics
•  Microalgal lipid metabolism for biofuels production
•  Algal biofuels

•  Chordate evolutionary relationships
•  Developmental genetics of amphioxus
•  Evolution and development

•  Biological and biochemical studies in polar sea
•  Phytoplankton photoadaptation
•   Effects of solar ultraviolet radiation on phytoplankton
•  Macro- and micro-element nutrition

J

•  Three-dimensional acoustic and optical imaging of phytoplankton and zooplankton
•  Development of in situ remote sensing devices for ocean exploration

•  Microbial distributions and interactions with marine plants and invertebrates
•  Sequence-based approaches to the discovery of natural products from marine microbes.
•  Comparative genomics.
•  Microbial chemical ecology.
•  The distributions, biogeography, and molecular evolution of marine bacteria.

•  Small-scale dynamics in the coastal and open ocean:
•  - Internal tide scattering from midocean topography
•  - Internal tide generation and propagation
•  - Fronts
•  - Transition layer

K

•  Satellite oceanography
•  Remote sensing and optics of phytoplankton
•  Red tides and harmful algal blooms

•  Physics approach to sensory biology
•  Electric and magnetic field detection
•  Hydrodynamic and acoustic field detection
•  Mathematical-physical principles of sensory systems
•  Behavioral, electrophysiological, and biophysical experiments
•  Animal-inspired detection systems for autonomous robotic devices

•  Reflection Seismology
•  Mid-ocean ridge processes
•  Immersive visualization
•  Rifted margins
•  Walker Lane tectonics
•  Paleoseismology

•  Marine magnetotelluric and controlled-source EM exploration
•  Electromagnetic modeling with finite elements
•  Electromagnetic inversion
•  Mid-ocean ridges
•  Subduction zones
•  Hydrocarbon exploration
•  Mantle dynamics
•  Marine geophysical instrumentation design

•  Equatorial ocean circulation and dynamics
•  Acoustic remote sensing of ocean circulation

•  40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of Intra-plate Volcanism
•  Forward Modeling of the Geochemical Diffentiation of the Earth
•  Studying the Paradigm between Fixed and Moving hotspots
•  Cyberinfrastructure Development for Earth Science Research

•  Ecosystem-based fishery management
•  Impacts of climate variability and change
•  Fisheries oceanography: ecology of krill, mesopelagic and small pelagic fishes
•  Acoustics and ocean observation systems

L

•  Fish cardiovascular physiology
•  Chronic heart failure in mammals
•  Fish locomotion and energetics

•  Phytoplankton (diatoms)
•  Transport to the seafloor
•  Burial in the sediment
•  Time-series
•  Laminated sediments

•  Using interdisciplinary approaches involving biology, chemistry, and physics to investigate how marine organisms interact with their ocean environment.
•  Ecology of bioluminescence in the ocean
•  Physiological ecology of marine organisms
•  Ecotoxicology of marine organisms
•  Role of bioluminescent and fluorescent molecules

•  Satellite remote sensing of Earth's polar regions
•  Application of global climate model simulation to the polar regions
•  New instrumentation and techniques for space-based remote sensing
•  Stellar astrophysics related to solar variability and climate

•  Ocean Sensing, physical biological interactions, nutrient fluxes in coastal physical flows, high frequency coastal physical dynamics

•  Origin and evolution of the solar system
•  Isotope Geo- and Cosmochemistry
•  Early solar system timescales using extinct radionuclides
•  Isotope tracer studies on terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials
•  Nucleosynthesis

M

•  Large-scale general circulation numerical modeling of the ocean and sea-ice.
•  Climate change and variability in the ocean/sea-ice system
•  Tropical ocean dynamics

•  Ocean modeling, data assimilation, and predictability
•  Coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling and predictability
•  California Current System dynamics and ecosystem response
•  Pacific Ocean decadal variability and ecosystem response
•  Long-period tides and barotropic normal modes

•  Phytoplankton photosynthetic physiology and ecology
•  Ocean optics and satellite remote sensing of phytoplankton biomass and primary production
•  Effects of UV-B on marine microorganisms
•  Commercialization of algae biofuels

N

O

P

•  Adsorption of metals by microbes and polysaccharides
•  Oxidation and reduction of metals by microbes
•  Biology of cyanobacteria
•  Manganophores

•  Coastal shelf ecology
•  Interactions of physical and biological processes on coastal shelf ecosystems
•  Anthropogenic disturbance of coastal shelf ecosystems
•  Marine protected areas

•  Diving physiology and behavior

R

•  Ecology, paleoecology, and geochemistry of deep-sea environments
•  Biogeochemistry of cold methane seeps
•  Responses of microfauna to changes in productivity and dissolved oxygen

•  Aerosol chemistry and physics
•  Cloud condensation nuclei (CCN)
•  Aerosol-clouds-radiometric interactions and climate
•  Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles in atmospheric sciences
•  Miniaturized instrumentation

S

•  Ocean technology: robotic work systems, composite materials, wave measurement instrumentation
•  Wave mechanics: wave generation, wave groups, extreme wave statistics
•  Wave climatology: seasonal, spatial and long-term variability in North Pacific Basin, extreme storm events
•  Nearshore processes: sediment transport mechanisms, cross-shore transport, shoreline erosion
•  Ocean-based renewable energy technology, undersea compressed air energy storage

•  Kinematics and dynamics of rip currents
•  Generation of Langmuir circulation (mixed layer dynamics)
•  Interactions between waves, currents, and bottom topography
•  Mutual influences between wind stress and directional surface wave characteristics

•  Sonar array processing
•  Time-reversal acoustics
•  Underwater acoustic communications

•  Interocean exchange of the Indonesian Throughflow and its relationship to climate.
•  Southern Ocean climate and dynamics.
•  Large-scale general circulation of mass and heat.
•  Long-term monitoring of the heat and transport in the upper ocean.

•  Ocean remote sensing
•  Data assimilation
•  Ocean modeling

•  Geochemical transfer between ocean-crust, biosphere, seawater, and mantle
•  Geochemical Earth Reference Models
•  Volcanology, geochemistry, microbiology and geophysics of seamounts and the oceanic crust
•  Earth Science Education and Outreach

•  Air-sea gas exchange via bubble formation
•  High pressure gas sensing
•  Polar biology, Reef biology
•  Sensor technology and development
•  Optical image processsing

•  Arctic physical oceanography
•  Global thermohaline circulation
•  Ocean measurement and interpretation

•  Climate variability and change; response of upper trophic-level predators
•  Predator-prey relationships
•  Seabirds and marine mammals as biological indicators and sampling devices

T

•  Mass Spectrometry of Biomolecules, Proteomics and Peptidomics
•  Polypeptides with unusual post-translational modifications from marine invertebrates, structure, function, and application
•  Biochemical mediators of innate immunity in invertebrates: Cytotoxicity and antimicrobial activity
•  Marine bioinorganic chemistry of metal binding proteins from marine invertebrates

•  Marine mammal acoustics
•  Advanced acoustic signal processing
•  Geoacoustic imaging, inversion, and tomography

•  Physical processes associated with the structural evolution of convergent margins.
•  Seafloor instrument development.
•  Physical, hydrologic, and geochemical consequences of gas hydrate formation and destruction.
•  Physical, hydrologic, and chemical processes associated with cold seeps and mud volcanoes.
•  Physical, hydrologic, and chemical processes associated with active submarine fault zones

•  Bioluminescence
•  Aequorin
•  Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)
•  Energy Transfer
•  Calcium Ion

V

•  Climate
•  Atmospheric radiative transfer
•  Solar system exploration
•  Astrophysics

•  Tsunamis, in the ocean and on the Moon
•  Explosion-generated waves and coastal interaction
•  Human endurance, heat production, and cold water physiology

•  Phytoplankton ecology with emphasis on community structure and temporal variability
•  Applied statistics and sampling design

•  Dynamics of marine ecosystems
•  Ocean circulation and biogeochemistry
•  Mathematical ecology

•  Phytoplankton Ecology and Physiology
•  Phytoplankton Photosynthetic Pigments
•  Antarctic Marine Ecosystems Structure and Function
•  Effect of Climate Variability on Lower Trophic Levels

•  Earthquake seismology
•  Real-time environmental sensor networks
•  Time-series analysis
•  Ocean Observatories

W

•  Planetary wave dynamics
•  Global climate change
•  Coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction

•  Computational fluid dynamics, high-order methods
•  Internal waves & mixing, stability, transition to turbulence
•  Coastal ocean processes, dispersion
•  Parallel algorithms, large-scale scientific computation

•  Application of acoustic remote sensing techniques to studying large-scale ocean circulation and temperature structure

Z

•  Global climate modeling
•  Convection and cloud parameterization
•  Atmosphere-ocean interaction
•  Convective transport of momentum

•  Microstructure of ocean surface, air-sea exchange
•  Boundary layer dynamics
•  Remote sensing

•  Electroanalytical chemistry of seawater
•  Trace metal speciations in seawater and metal-organism interactions
•  Water Quality Models
•  The seawater CO2 system

•  Development of marine gravity techniques
•  Optical fiber sensors for geophysical applications
•  Marine geodesy
•  Infrasound