Faculty

Ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry; broad focus on how human activities influence the ability of ecosystems to retain and transform carbon, nutrients, and energy and how restoration activities may help ameliorate some of these impacts

Fish ecology and behavior, especially understanding how predation, environmental conditions, anthropogenic disturbances, and fisheries affect the behavior of fish species in marine and estuarine ecosystems

Biogeochemical cycling, coastal geomorphology, sea-level rise, saltwater intrusion, carbon stability, mangrove encroachment, surface elevation dynamics, and extreme events

Forest eco-physiology, scaling ecosystem processes, wetland CO2 fluxes, water conservation value of tidal wetlands, tidal freshwater forested wetlands, mangroves

Biological oceanography, marine biomechanics and biofluids, effects of individual scale behavior on carbon and nutrient cycling

Biogeochemistry, microbial ecology, geomicrobiology, molecular microbiology, marine deep subsurface biosphere

Biological oceanography, continental shelf ecosystems influenced by large rivers, benthic ecology, distribution and dynamics of hypoxia, eutrophication, environmental effects of habitat alterations, and integration of science and policy

Coral ecology and distribution on natural coral reefs and artificial habitats; coral reef ecology, larval dispersal and recruitment, marine chemical ecology

Ecology of biogenic habitats, food web ecology, soundscape ecology, and how human activities impact the structure, function, and provisioning of services in marine ecosystems

Climate impacts on marine ecosystems and the deltaic system, sediment-biogeochemical process coupling, phytoplankton-zooplankton dynamics, benthic-pelagic coupling, fishery species biogeography and population dynamics, coastal morphodynamics and sediment dynamics