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Environmental History, Historical Ecology, Marine Resources and Conservation

genomics & engineering non-model microbes to study biogeochemistry in extreme environments

Early Origins and Evolution of Microbial Life, Interaction Between Microbial Life and its Environment across Earth’s History, Evolution of Marine Bacteria and Archaea, Bioinformatics, Phylogenomics

Biological oceanography; ecology of marine gelatinous plankton; marine particulate matter and marine snow, biogeochemical cycling.

marine ecology, conservation, disturbance ecology, kelp forests, primary producers

The power of plankton.

Marine ecology, community ecology, trophic interactions, coral reefs.

Marine Bioinorganic Chemistry and Metallobiochemistry.

I am a microbial oceanographer that studies the interaction between microbes and the biogeochemical processing of marine organic matter.

Ocean dynamics across multiple scales and their interactions with marine ecosystems

The DeVries lab studies the interaction of ocean circulation, carbon cycle, and climate.

kelp forest nutrient cycling

Coastal Marine Ecologist.

Marine Geophysics, Seismology, Tectonophysics, Inverse Theory.

Gamete recognition and fertilization in marine invertebrates.

The Froehlich Lab studies the sustainability of seafood and marine ecosystems under climate change.

Marine ecology, sustainable fisheries, aquaculture, oceans and climate change.

Seascape genetics, larval dispersal, population connectivity and genetic structure in the Santa Barbara Channel

Coastal Geology and Geophysics, Sea-Level Changes and Glacial History

Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez has worked for twenty years on diversity and function in marine phytoplankton combining molecular approaches, carbon physiology and biogeochemistry in the lab and in the field.

Carbon export and biogeochemical cycling

Earth System History recorded in sediments with emphasis in Marine Geology, Paleoceanography, Climate Change and Cosmic Impacts

Professor of Applied Marine and Fisheries Ecology.

Geochemistry, Geomorphology, the Carbon Cycle

Wind energy, conductivity sensing, drag reduction using superhydrophobic surfaces, cohesive sediment.

Limnology and Coastal Oceanography, with particular emphasis on physical-biological coupling.

Ecological processes in lakes, wetlands and streams and their catchments throughout the world.

I am broadly interested in marine community ecology and benthic food webs. 

Uses mathematics, experiments, and field observations to understand how metabolic interactions between species shape the structure and function of ecological communities.

Historical Ecology, Biogeography, and Social Oceanography

Coastal physical oceanography; remote sensing; estuary flux measurements

Coastal physical oceanography and autonomous platforms.

Sulfur biogeochemistry and organic matter cycling in the ocean.

marine community ecology, benthic food webs and aquaculture.

Regulation of development and differentiation; regulation of programmed cell death and cell division; mechanisms of tumorigenesis.

Marine microbial ecology, nitrogen cycling.

Offshore dumping of DDT insecticide and related waste near the Channel Islands.

Physical oceanographic / ecological coupling, biogeochemistry and coastal spatial ecology using the tools of an applied physicist, radiative transfer and fluid mechanics.

Our lab investigates how coastlines evolve over thousands of years.

Coastal oceanography; remote sensing-based flux measurements of terrestrial materials in the inner shelf.

Climate and ocean modeling, tropical Pacific climate dynamics, and long-term variations in hydroclimate.

Ocean Resilience: biodiversity, assembly, and sustainability of harvested ocean ecosystems.

The Thurber Lab seeks to understand how the oceans work through a lens of combining biogeochemistry, microbiology and animal ecology. Much of the lab's research focuses on deep-sea and/or polar habitats, environments critical to a functioning planet and often overlooked for their importance. The lab aims to understand how these habitats function, how society benefits from them, and how this will change with our changing climate.

Ecology and evolution of marine sponges

Carbon Climate, Marine Organisms Genomics.

Our lab studies the microbial and viral ecology of marine and terrestrial species. We use a variety of high tech approaches such as genomics and informatics to discover and understand how bacteria and viruses both positively and negatively interact with their hosts. Much of our work is focused on how these interactions are altered under anthropogenic stress and how they may lead to reduced host and ecosystem resilience. We also conduct work specifically on marine conservation, aiming to better evaluate the unseen biodiversity of marine systems and to identify innovative solutions to the global declines of key marine species.

Libe Washburn is an oceanographer and professor at UCSB who studies the coastal ocean and related marine ecosystems.

Paleoclimate, paleoceanography, proxy development and refinement

I am interested how microbial interactions and tightly-coupled biogeochemical cycles drive the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of populations, with a current focus on the bacteria and archaea of marine aggregates and biofilms.