The Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, SOEST

Faculty Member’s Principal Research Interests

Marlin Atkinson Professor, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology	Coral physiology, coral reef biogeochemistry, coral reef airborne and satellite remote sensing. Development and testing of coastal sensor technologies.
Whitlow Au Researcher, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology	Bioacoustics and ecological acoustics of the marine evironment.
Janet M. Becker Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics	Geophysical fluid dynamics, coastal processes and the general ocean circulation.
Robert Bidigare Professor, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology	Bio-optical oceanography, nutrient cyclying, phytoplankton pigment biochemistry, intermediary metabolism in marine plankton.
Glenn Carter Assistant Professor	Physical oceanography, ocean mixing, tides, internal waves.
Michael Cooney Hawaii Natural Energy Institute	Isolation of antifouling compounds from marine algae, bioreactor design, and continuous clutivation of marine bacteria and copepods.
Matthew J. Church Assoc. Professor	Microbial oceanography and biogeochemistry, plankton biomass and production, ocean ecosystem dynamics.
Antony D. Clarke Research Professor	Sea-salt and marine aerosols, global pollution, atmospheric optics, aerosol-cloud studies, biogeochemical cycles.
James P. Cowen Research Professor	Marine microbial geochemistry, deep sub-seafloor biosphere, biogeochemistry, deep subseafloor biosphere, deep-sea hydrothermal processes, water quality issues particle dynamics.
Eric H. DeCarlo Research Professor	Aquatic geochemistry, environmental geochemistry, ocean observation systems, trace element geochemistry.
Jeffrey C. Drazen Assoc. Professor	Physiological ecology of deep-sea fishes, energetic strategies, trophodynamics, deep sea fisheries.
Eric Firing Professor	Equatorial circulation, general circulation, physical oceanographic technology.
Pierre J. Flament Professor	Dynamics of the surface layer, water-types formation, subduction and thermocline ventilation, mixing processes, mesoscale structures, remote sensing.
Eric Gaidos Assoc. Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics	Molecular evolutionary biology and genomics, microbiology of reefs and rainforests, global change and earth history.
Ruth Gates Associate Researcher, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology	Regulation and de-stabilization of coral/dinoflagellate symbioses, evolution and development of animal sensory systems.
Brian T. Glazer Assoc. Professor	Biogeochemical cycling, redox transition zone geomicrobiology, in situ electrochemical techniques.
Erica Goetze Assistant Professor	Marine zooplankton ecology; dispersal and gene flow in marine plankton populations; evolution; behavioral ecology and systematics of marine calanoid copepods.
David T. Ho Professor	Air-water gas exchange; tracer oceanography; carbon cycle, and environmental geochemistry.
David M. Karl Professor	Microbiological oceanography, oceanic productivity, biogeochemical fluxes.
Chris Kelley Researcher	Deep water habitats, ecology & fisheries, seafloor mapping, GIS
Paul F. Kemp Specialist	Growth, activity and diversity of marine microbes; biosensor applications in microbial oceanography; molecular ecology of marine bacteria.
Rudolf C. Kloosterziel Assistant Researcher	Geophysical fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic, hydromagnetic stability.
Petra Lenz Associate Researcher, Pacific Biosciences Research Center.	Neuroecology of zooplankton sensory systems.
Roger Lukas Professor	Equatorial circulation, air-sea interaction, climate variability, and ocean observing systems.
Douglas S. Luther Professor	Oceanic waves from infragravity to Rossby, mesoscale variability, eddy-mean flow interaction, topography-catalyzed mixing, instrumentation.
Julian P. McCreary Professor	Equatorial ocean dynamics, coupled ocean-atmosphere modelling, general ocean circulation, coastal ocean dynamics, ecosystem modelling.
Margaret Anne McManus Professor	Coastal circulation, mesoscale processes, physical-biological interactions in the ocean.
Gary McMurtry Associate Professor	Geochemistry of marine deposits, seafloor venting processes, chemical volcanology, stable and radioisotope geochemistry, geochronology, in situ instrumentation development.
Christopher Measures Professor	Global distributions of trace elements, quantifying atmospheric deposition to the surface ocean, trace element biogeochemistry, fractional solubility of atmospheric aerosols.
Mark A. Merrifield Professor	Physical oceanography, waves, currents, sea level variability
Michael J. Mottl Professor	Submarine hydrothermal processes, geochemical cycles, sea-water-sea-floor chemical interaction.
Peter K. Muller Professor	Theoretical physical oceanography, foundations of complex system theories.
Brian N. Popp Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics	Stable isotope biogeochemistry, marine organic geochemistry, isotopic biogeochemistry of individual biomarkers and gases.
Brian Powell Assistant Professor	Numerical Modeling, variational data assimilation, ocean predictability, ocean dynamical modes, and ocean ecosystem dynamics.
Bo Qiu Professor	Large-scale ocean circulation, ocean atompshere internation, satellite observations, and numerical modeling of ocean circulation.
Michael Rappé Associate Researcher, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology	Phylogenetic, genomic, and metabolic diversity of microorganisms including marine plankton, coral reef, and deep subsurface ecosystems.
Kelvin Richards Professor	Ocean mixing processes, circulation and dynamics, ocean-atmosphere interaction, ecosystem modeling.
Kathleen Ruttenberg Associate Professor	Biogeochemsitry of phosphorus and associated bioactive elements in freshwater and marine aqueous and sedimentary systems, sediment diagenesis, organic matter reactivity and mineral authigenesis, effect of redox chemistry on element cycling, global biogeochemical cycles.
Frank Sansone Professor	Biogeochemistry of permeable (sandy) sediments, coastal processes, trace-gas biogeochemistry, hydrothermal geochemistry.
Niklas Schneider Associate Professor	Decadal climate variability, tropical air-sea interaction, coupled modeling.
Jane Schoonmaker Specialist & Undergraduate Chair	Sedimentary geochemistry and diagenesis, interpretation of paleoenviroment and paleoclimate sedimentary records.
Karen Selph Associate Specialist	Biological oceanography, microbial ecology, protistan grazer feeding dynamics, phytoplankton distributions, use of flow cytometry in ecological research.
Craig R. Smith Professor	Benthic ecology, deep-sea biology, sediment biogeochemistry, climate-change effects on Antartic ecosystems, marine conservation.
Grieg F. Steward Associate Professor	Marine bacteria and viruses, microbial genomics, molecular ecology and biogeochemical cycles.
Florence Thomas Associate Researcher, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology	Coral reef and coastal ecology, reproductive biology, hydrodynamics and biomechanics.
Axel Timmermann Professor	Tropical climate variability, large-scale ocean circulation, paleoceanography, Earth-system modeling.
Robert Toonen Associate Researcher, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology	Larval ecology, coral reef biology, evolution, phylogeography and conservation genetics of marine invertebrates.
Kevin Weng Assistant Researcher	Behavior, migration and habitat use of sharks and fishes, oceanography of key habitats of pelagic nekton, fishery management and conservation.
Richard Zeebe Professor	Global biogeochemical cycles, carbon dioxide system in seawater and interrelations with marine plankton, paleo-oceanography, stable isotope geochemistry.

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