Research

Marine Biology / Biological Oceanography

Biological oceanography and marine biology are closely aligned areas with considerable overlap. In general, biological oceanographers investigate the ecology of marine organisms in the context of the physical, chemical, and geological characteristics of the ocean environment in which they live. Many marine biologists are primarily interested in the biology of marine organisms themselves including their physiology, behavior, feeding biology, biochemistry, or reproduction. EEMB offers a broad array of research in these areas ranging from marine pharmacology and physiology to coral reef, coastal, deep sea, and open ocean ecology.

Faculty Research

Alice L. Alldredge, Ph.D. UC Davis. Biological oceanography; ecology of marine gelatinous plankton; marine particulate matter and marine snow, biogeochemical cycling.

Mark A. Brzezinski, Ph.D. Oregon State University. Phytoplankton ecology and physiology; phytoplankton cell cycles; elemental cycling in surface ocean.

Craig Carlson, Ph.D. University of Maryland. Marine microbial ecology, bacterioplankton, dissolved organic carbon, marine biogeochemistry.

James J. Childress, Ph.D. Stanford University. Ecological physiology of invertebrates and fishes; biological oceanography; physiology of deep-sea animals; metabolic adaptations of hydrothermal vent animals; chemoautotrophic endosymbioses.

Peter M. Collins, Ph.D. University of London. Endocrinology; hormone regulation of reproduction in vertebrates.

Steven D. Gaines, Ph.D. Oregon State University. Population and community ecology; dispersal; marine biogeography; biostatistics.

Gretchen Hofmann, Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder. Ecological physiology of marine organisms; environmental regulation of gene expression in fish and invertebrates; understanding organismal response to changing thermal environments by integrating ecology, physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology.

Sally J. Holbrook, Ph.D. UC Berkeley. Community ecology; marine vertebrate predation and competition.

Robert S. Jacobs, Ph.D. Loyola University. Cellular and molecular mechanism of action of marine natural products and toxins.

Armand M. Kuris, Ph.D. UC Berkeley. Parasite population and community ecology; marine ecology; crustacean biology.

Sally MacIntyre, Ph. D. Duke University. Physical-biological coupling; physical limnology and oceanography; tropical, temperate and arctic lakes; flow in kelp forests and coral reefs.

Todd Oakley, Ph.D. Duke University. Macroevolution; phylogenetics; molecular systematics; evolution of development; molecular evolution; evolution of eyes and vision - especially in the marine environment.

Barbara B. Prézelin, Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Primary productivity of phytoplankton in marine environments; biooptical modeling; molecular, cellular, and environmental regulation of marine photosynthesis.

Russell J. Schmitt, Ph.D. UC Los Angeles. Population and community ecology; applied ecology; consumer-resource interactions; marine invertebrates and reef fishes.

Robert Warner, Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Evolutionary ecology and population biology; ecology and behavior of coral reef fishes.