Core Faculty

Environmental History, Historical Ecology, Marine Resources and Conservation

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

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

Ocean dynamics across multiple scales and their interactions with marine ecosystems

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

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

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

Coastal physical oceanography and autonomous platforms.

Proterozoic and Cambrian paleontology; origins of biomineralization; early eukaryote evolution; early animal evolution.

Sulfur biogeochemistry and organic matter cycling in the ocean.

Marine microbial ecology, nitrogen cycling.

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.

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.

Carbon Climate, Marine Organisms Genomics.

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.