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Faculty
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Alice L. Alldredge,
Ph.D. UC Davis.
Biological oceanography; ecology of marine gelatinous plankton; marine particulate matter and marine snow, biogeochemical cycling.
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Cherie Briggs,
Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara
Theoretical ecology; disease ecology; population dynamics; systems biology. |
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Mark A. Brzezinski,
Ph.D. Oregon State University.
Phytoplankton ecology and physiology; phytoplankton cell cycles; elemental cycling in surface ocean. |
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Bradley J. Cardinale,
Ph.D. University of Maryland.
Community and ecosystems ecology, freshwater biology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. |
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Craig Carlson,
Ph.D. University of Maryland.
Marine microbial ecology, bacterioplankton, dissolved organic carbon, marine biogeochemistry. |
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James F. Case,
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University.
Professor Emeritus.
Bioluminescence and vision in marine animals, and its role in marine ecosystems; invertebrate neurobiology and behavior. |
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David J. Chapman,
Ph.D., D.Sc. UC San Diego.
Biochemistry, physiology and general biology of macroalgae and phytoplankton; biosynthesis and function of algal natural products; evolution of biochemical systems. |
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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. |
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Peter M. Collins,
Ph.D. University of London.
Endocrinology; hormone regulation of reproduction in vertebrates. |
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Joseph H. ConnellPh.D. University of Glasgow.
Professor Emeritus.
Population and community ecology, coral reef ecology, ecology of tropical forests. |
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Scott D. Cooper,
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin.
Freshwater biology; stream ecology. |
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Carla D'Antonio,
Ph. D., UC Santa Barbara.
Plant and ecosystem ecology, invasive species, species affects on ecosystem processes, restoration ecology. |
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Thomas Even, Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara.
Lecturer PSOE.
Population and community ecology, river ecology, predator-prey interactions, science education. |
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Steven D. Gaines,
Ph.D. Oregon State University.
Population and community ecology; dispersal; marine biogeography; biostatistics.
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Scott A. Hodges,
Ph.D. UC Berkeley.
Plant evolutionary biology; molecular approaches to population biology, ecological genetics, and systematics.
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Gretchen Hofmann,
Ph.D. University of Colorado.
Ecological physiology of marine organisms.
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Sally J. Holbrook,
Ph.D. UC Berkeley.
Community ecology; marine vertebrate predation and competition.
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Robert S. Jacobs,
Ph.D. Loyola University.
Cellular and molecular mechanism of action of marine natural products and toxins.
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Armand M. Kuris,
Ph.D. UC Berkeley.
Parasite population and community ecology; marine ecology; crustacean biology.
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John Latto,
Ph.D. Imperial College, London.
Population and community ecology; host-parasitoid interactions.
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Jonathan Levine,
Ph.D. UC Berkeley.
Controls over the success and impacts of exotic plant invasions; species diversity
and ecosystem function; mechanisms underlying rare plant persistence; determinants
of commonness, rarity, and coexistence.
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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.
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Bruce E. Mahall,
Ph.D. UC Berkeley.
Physiological plant ecology; phenology, water relations, productivity, root dynamics, controls of community structures and plant distributions.
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Susan Mazer Professor and Vice Chair
Ph.D. UC Davis.
Quantitative genetics of plant life-history characters and ecological significance of life-history variation; molecular applications in evolutionary ecology; evolutionary ecology of seeds and reproductive characters in plants; tropical rain forest ecology; comparative biology.
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John M. Melack,
Ph.D. Duke University.
Limnology of tropical, saline, and alpine lakes; phytoplankton and zooplankton ecology; biogeochemistry; wetland ecology; remote sensing.
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William W. Murdoch,
Ph.D. Oxford University.
Population ecology; regulation of populations; predator-prey relationships.
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Roger M. Nisbet, Professor and Vice Chair
Ph.D. University of St. Andrews.
Theoretical ecology; population dynamics; dynamic energy budget theory.
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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.
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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.
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Stephen Proulx,
Ph.D. University of Utah.
Gene network evolution; evolution of gene regulation; evolution in varying environments; canalization and robustness; sexual selection; sex allocation; niche evolution.
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William R. Rice,
Ph.D. Oregon State University.
Genetic basis of evolution; speciation, adaptive significance of sexual recombination, intersexual antagonistic coevolution, Interlocus Contest Evolution (ICE), sex chromosomes.
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Steve I. Rothstein,
Ph.D. Yale University.
Behavioral ecology; evolution; vertebrate biology; ornithology.
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Josh P. Schimel,
Ph.D. UC Berkeley.
Soil ecology; microbial controls of ecosystem processes; terrestrial biogeochemistry.
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Russell J. Schmitt,
Ph.D. UC Los Angeles.
Population and community ecology; applied ecology; consumer-resource interactions; marine invertebrates and reef fishes.
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Raul K. Suarez,
Ph.D. University of British Columbia.
Comparative biochemistry and physiology; energetics of animal locomotion; evolutionary design of functional capacities; ecological physiology.
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Samuel S. Sweet,
Ph.D. UC Berkeley.
Vertebrate systematics and evolutionary morphology; herpetology.
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Robert Warner, Department Chair
Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Evolutionary ecology, population and conservation biology; ecology and behavior of reef fishes.
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