GES Faculty
Janet M.
Becker Geophysical fluid dynamics, nonlinear waves and stability,
coastal processes, general ocean circulation
Robert
R. Bidigare Bio-optical oceanography, pigment biochemistry,
plankton metabolism
Steven
Businger Mesoscale and synoptic meteorology
Glenn S. Carter
Physical oceanography, ocean mixing, internal tides, underwater ocean gliders
Matthew J. Church
Microbial oceanography, aquatic nitrogen cycling, and microbial physiology Antony
D. Clarke Physical and chemical properties of aerosol in remote
troposphere, aircraft studies of aerosol in free troposphere
James
P. Cowen Microbial geochemistry, particle aggregation dynamics,
hydrothermal systems
Eric H.
DeCarlo Aquatic chemistry, metals and their anthropogenic inputs,
transformations, fate and transport, sedimentary geochemistry, marine
minerals
Steven J. Dollar Biogeochemistry, nearshore processes
and effects of human activity on the coastal zone
Jeffrey C. Drazen
Physiological ecology of marine fishes, energetics and tropodynamics, deep-sea biology, adaptations of fishes to the deep-sea
Aly
El-Kadi Hydrogeology, modeling groundwater systems
R. Cengiz
Ertekin Hydrodynamics, computational methods, offshore and coastal
engineering, oil-spill spreading, fishpond circulation
Eric
Firing Ocean circulation and currents on all scales, with emphasis
on observation sand dynamics
Pierre J.
Flament Surface ocean layer dynamics, mesoscale circulation
structures of the ocean, remote sensing of the sea surface
Charles
H. Fletcher Quaternary and coastal marine geology, sea-level
history, coastal sedimentary processes
Patricia Fryer Marine geology, petrology, tectonics
Eric Gaidos Molecular evolution; microbiology of
extreme environments; biosphere-climate feedbacks; critical intervals in
Earth history; exobiology; biological networks
Michael
O. Garcia Volcanology, igneous petrology, geochemistry
Thomas W.
Giambelluca Department of Geography. Interactions between the
atmosphere and the land surface, including influences of land use and land
cover change on climate and surface hydrology and effects on global
climate change on hydrologic processes and terrestrial ecology
Brian T. Glazer
Biogeochemical processes in marine environments; use of molecular methods to characterize and understand synergy of geomicrobiology
Craig R. Glenn
Paleoceanography, marine geology, sedimentology, sediment diagenesis
Erica Goetze
Marine zooplankton ecology; dispersal and gene flow in marine plankton populations; evolution, behavioral ecology and systematics of marine calanoid copepods
E. Gordon
Grau
Environmental physiology and comparative endocrinology of
fish
David T. Ho
Air-water gas exchange, tracer oceanography, carbon cycle, and environmental geochemistry
Denise Eby Konan
Department of Economics. International trade, microeconomics,
computational economics
Kem Lowry
Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
Design, planning and evaluation of ocean and coastal management programs. Experience in Hawaii, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Thailand Roger Lukas
Physical oceanography, interannual and decadal climate variability.
Fred
T. Mackenzie
Geochemistry, biogeochemical cycling, global
environmental change, Program Coordinator for GES
John
J. Mahoney
Isotope geochemistry of oceanic and continental crust
and mantle
Stephen
J. Martel Engineering and structural geology
Margaret A. McManus
Descriptive physical oceanography, coupled physical-biological numerical models; development of ocean observing sytems
Gary
M. McMurtry Geochemistry, geology and geophysics
Christopher
Measures Trace element geochemistry, hydrothermal systems,
elemental mass balances
Mark D. Merlin
Biogeography, natural history of the Pacific
Mark A.
Merrifield
Physical oceanography, coastal circulation, sea level
variability, current flows and mixing in the vicinity of coral reefs,
islands and seamounts
Gregory
Moore Marine geophysics, structural geology
Michael
J. Mottl Hydrothermal processes, geochemical cycles
Peter Mouginis-Mark
Volcanology from space, remote sensing of natural hazards
Peter
K. Müller Ocean circulation, waves and turbulence
Brian
N. Popp Isotope biogeochemistry, organic geochemistry
John N.
Porter Atmospheric science, use of satellites to study aerosol and
cloud forcing, ship measurements of aerosol and cloud optical properties
Brian S. Powell
Numerical modeling and variational data assimilation, ocean predictability, ocean circulation and ecosystem dynamics
Michael Rappe
Ecology of marine microorganisms; genomics; coral-associated microorganisms; ecology of microorganisms in the deep subsurface
Greg Ravizza
Paleoceanography and environmental chemistry; geologic history of chemical weathering; geochemistry of recent and ancient metalliferous sediments; anthropogenic influences on the geochemical cycles of the platinum group elements; chemical signatures of extra terrestrial matter in marine sediments; biogeochemistry of molybdenum in the marine environment Mark A.
Ridgley Resource management and human-environment system analysis
James
Roumasset Department of Economics. Environmental economics and
sustainable growth
Ken
Rubin Isotope geochemistry, chronology
Kathleen
Ruttenberg Biochemistry of phosphorus and phosphorus cycling in
the ocean, rivers, and lakes; nutrient limitation of aquatic primary
productivity; effects of redox chemistry on nutrient cycling; early
diagenesis in marine sediments with focus on authigenic mineral formation
and organic matter mineralization
Francis J.
Sansone Suboxic/anoxic diagenesis in sediments, hydrothermal
geochemistry, lava-seawater interactions, trace gas geochemistry
Niklas Schneider
Decadal climate variability, tropical air-sea interaction, coupled modeling
Jane
Schoonmaker
Sedimentary geochemistry and diagenesis;
paleoenvironment and paleoclimate sedimentary records
Shiv
K. Sharma Atmospheric instrumentation and remote sensing, Lidar,
Raman, and infrared spectrometry and fiber-optic environmental sensors
Craig R. Smith
Benthic and ecology, deep-sea biology, sediment geochemistry, climate-change effects on Antarctic ecosystems, marine conservation
Grieg F. Steward
Aquatic microbial ecology, molecular ecology and diversity of viruses and bacteria
Axel L. Timmermann
Coral bleaching, stability of the thermohaline circulation, stochastic climate modeling, nonlinear statistics, detection of greenhouse warming
Bin
Wang Atmospheric and climate dynamics
Bruce Wilcox Population biology; human-ecosystem
interaction; ecological and human health linkages
John Wiltshire
Marine minerals, mine tailings,
disposal and remediation and submersible engineering and operations
Richard Zeebe
Global biogeochemical cycles, carbon dioxide system in seawater and interrelations with marine plankton, paleoceanography, stable isotope geochemistry
Global
Environmental Science Program Department of
Oceanography
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