Ocean Sciences
2011-12 General Catalog
A312 Earth and Marine Sciences Building
(831) 459-4730
http://oceansci.ucsc.edu/
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Kenneth W. Bruland
Chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry of trace metals and radionuclides, aquatic chemistry, geochemistry
Margaret L. (Peggy) Delaney
Paleoceanography, marine geochemistry
Robert E. Garrison (Emeritus)
Raphael M. Kudela
Ecological modeling and remote sensing, satellite oceanography, phytoplankton ecology and harmful algal blooms
Andrew M. Moore
Physical oceanography; numerical ocean modeling; air-interaction; ocean prediction
A. Christina Ravelo
Stable isotope geochemistry and chemical oceanography, paleoclimatology
Mary W. Silver (Emeritus)
Jonathan P. Zehr
Aquatic microbial ecology, biological oceanography
Associate Professor
Christopher A. Edwards
Physical oceanography, numerical modeling of coastal- and basin-scale dynamics
Matthew D. McCarthy
Organic geochemistry, marine organic geochemistry, global biogeochemical cycles
Adjunct Professor
Kenneth L. Smith
Pelagic-benthic coupling in the abyssal Eastern North Pacific
Sharon E. Stammerjohn
Polar oceanography and climate; interdisciplinary approaches to understanding environmental and ecosystem response to climate variability
Randall S. Wells
Behavioral ecology and conservation biology of small cetaceans
Associate Adjunct Professor
Steven H. Haddock
Ecology of bioluminesence and gelatinous zooplankton from blue-water and deep-sea environments
Jeffrey D. Paduan
Coastal ocean dynamics: surface currents, wave heights, wind and tidal forcing from high-frequency radar data
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Michael Beck
Marine conservation, regional biodiversity planning, habitat restoration, marine proprietary rights
John Carlos Garza
Population and ecological genetics of marine organisms
Sean A. Hayes
Behavior, ecology, genetics, and population dynamics with a particular interest in salmon and pinnipeds
Roger Linington
Marine natural products; drugs for neglected diseases; chemical biology; chemical probes
Alexandra Worden
Mechanisms and controls of microbial population dynamics with an emphasis on carbon cycling in marine ecosystems
Lecturer
Baldo Marinovic
Plankton biology, Euphausiid (krill) population biology, zooplankton ecology, pelagic food web dynamics, climate change potential impacts on zooplankton and fisheries
Adina Paytan
Biogeochemistry, paleoceanography, environmental and aquatic chemistry
Colleen Reichmuth
Pinniped cognition and perception, including cross-modal (auditory-visual) emergent learning in sea lions and behavioral and electrophysical assessment of hearing in several marine mammal species
Scott Shaffer
Links between ecology, morphology, and physiological adaptations of marine vertebrates, particularly how animals use and allocate energy
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Professor
Giacomo Bernardi (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Fish biology, phylogenetics, evolution
Mark Carr (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Marine ecology, applied marine ecology
Daniel P. Costa (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Physiological ecology of marine mammals and birds
Phillip Crews (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Marine natural products chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, organic structural analysis by NMR, natural products of marine macro- and microorganisms
Donald Croll (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Foraging ecology of marine birds and mammals, island conservation/ecology
Andrew T. Fisher (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Hydrogeology, crustal studies, coupled flows, modeling
Stanley M. Flatt (Emeritus, Physics)
A. Russell Flegal (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Anthropogenic perturbations of biogeochemical cycles, applications of isotopic tracers in anthropology and archaeology
Laurel R. Fox (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Terrestrial population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions
James B. Gill (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Igneous petrology, geochemistry of island arcs
Gary B. Griggs (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Coastal processes, hazards and engineering
Marc S. Mangel (Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Mathematical modeling of biological phenomena, especially the evolutionary ecology of growth, aging, and longevity; quantitative issues in fishery management; mathematical and computational aspects of disease
Donald C. Potts (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Coral reef ecology, genetics, evolution, and geological history; marine biodiversity; tropical biology, global change, and remote sensing
Grant H. Pogson (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Molecular population genetics, ecological genetics, marine invertebrates and fishes
Peter Raimondi (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Marine ecology, evolutionary ecology, experimental design, applied ecology
Eli A. Silver (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Marine geology and geophysics, active tectonics, remote sensing
Lisa Sloan (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Paleoclimatology, climate change, Earth system science, surficial processes
Donald R. Smith (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Neurotoxicity, cellular and organismal responses to environmental toxins
Terrie M. Williams (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Vertebrate locomotor and thermoregulatory physiology; marine biodiversity; comparative vertebrate energetics, exercise physiology
James C. Zachos (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Paleoceanography, marine stratigraphy, geochemistry
Revised: 8/13/12
