Students

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

Optical oceanography and the development of bio-optical algorithms to retrieve the global phytoplankton and particle size distributions.

Microbial metabolisms relevant to oil biogeochemistry.

Microbial oceanography, focused on linking marine bacterioplankton to the cycling the elements through their consumption of dissolved organic matter.

Machine learning approaches to instrumental and sampling biases in the global oceans.

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

Investigating water mass sources and transport of materials to kelp forests

Phytoplankton biophysics across time and space scales

Biological oceanography, coastal phytoplankton diversity from genomics, pigment, optical perspectives.

My research focuses on linkages between dissolved organic carbon utilization and microbial community structure surrounding coral reefs.

kelp forest nutrient cycling

Using remote sensing technology to aid in the development of net primary productivity and demographic models of kelp forests

My research focus is on how organic matter subsidies structure communities and regulate ecosystem functions on sandy beaches.

Graduate student researcher investigating DOM/bacterioplankton dynamics in the open and coastal ocean.

genetics of rock scallops

Carbon uptake in the global ocean

Phytoplankton community structure in the surface ocean using in-water measurements and satellite remote sensing.

Biological oceanography, with focuses on anthropogenic influences on the physiology and community composition of marine phytoplankton.

Polar climate change, ocean heat content, ocean-atmosphere interaction.

Interactions between microbes and the environment.

I am studying oceanography, organism physiology and ecology across systems such as the open ocean and coral reefs.

Coastal marine ecology, community ecology

Sea urchin ecology, focusing on the impact of fishing and marine reserves on dominant urchin species in the Santa Barbara Chanel.

I develop molecular tools for marine conservation and management and use them to study human impacts on marine biodiversity.

Marine community ecology, invasion ecology, larval transport.

I study changes in marine socio-ecological systems that result from conservation and development initiatives. My current research focuses on the impacts of rural coastal tourism development on small-scale fisheries.

Carbon export and biological pump modeling.

particle-attached marine microbes

Carbon Climate, Marine Organisms Genomics.

I am interested in the functioning and efficiency of the ocean’s biological carbon pump.

fish and invertebrate communities associated with offshore energy, comparing survey methodology for subsea pipelines

My research involves creating a simple box model of ocean circulation in order to better constrain spatial gradients in the delta O 18 of seawater during past time periods.

Population and community ecology

Jon loves looking at how microbes are adapted to low energy lifestyles and talking in the third person.

Precambrian Micropaleontology

physical oceanography

Accelerated evolution, biofuels, cyanobacteria, protein engineering, and synthetic biology.

open ocean carbon cycle, biological pump, carbon modeling