OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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To search for a current CEOAS Teaching and Research Faculty member, simply type the first few letters of their last name and click the "Apply" button. For former faculty, see Emeritus Faculty. For all other CEOAS people, see Directory. Research interests in brief are listed for most faculty members.
Large-scale atmospheric circulation and dynamics, present and future climatology, and global and regional climate modeling and statistical analysis
Coastal ocean dynamics, coastal marine ecosystems, hypoxia, inner continental shelf dynamics
The gas chemistry of hydrothermal vents and methane seeps with a special interest into the carbon cycle and noble gas chemistry
Rural livelihoods, food security, and agricultural policy in the global South, with a focus on Africa
Sustainability and Resilience in Land Use Planning, Conservation GIS, Public Participation GIS, and Biomimicry
Polar zooplankton ecology
Paleoclimatology, geochemistry, ice core trace gas records, cosmogenic isotopes, extraterrestrial dust
Biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine ecosystems, with particular emphasis on the role of metal-binding ligands in the cycling of bioactive trace elements like iron and copper.
Paleoclimate, ice cores, abrupt climate change, firn processes
Fisheries oceanography, spatial ecology, fish early life stages, statistical analysis of catch and survey data
Dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets, sea level change, paleoclimatology, abrupt climate change
Microbial ecology, subsurface microbiology, geomicrobiology
Geology, Earth history, sedimentology, stratigraphy, sea-level change
Aquatic microbial ecology in marine, estuarine and freshwater ecosystems
Small to mesoscale ocean processes such as turbulence, flows over topography, internal waves and eddies
Water conflict management, integrated watershed management
Volcanology, Igneous Petrology, Aeolian geomorphology,
Atmosphere-ocean interaction, stratiform clouds, tropical meteorology
Cross-shelf exchange processes, analysis and prediction of Lagrangian transport, air-sea interaction
Sediment transport processes and rates in fluvial, coastal, and continental shelf systems, as well as event-scale to centennial-scale sediment deposition
Trace element and stable isotope geochemistry, biomineralization, and marine biology
Observational coastal physical oceanography and meteorology
Biogeography, conservation, ecological responses to climate and land-use change
Small-scale physical-biological interactions in the ocean, especially their implications for transport of plankton or sediment
Cycling of natural organic matter in the earth's surface, mainly in aquatic environments
Transformations to sustainability; biodiversity conservation; regenerative agriculture; environmental governance; water resource policy, management and law; drivers and consequences of rural land use change
Coastal ocean carbon cycles, ocean acidification, measurement and experimental manipulation technology
Plasma spectrometry
Marine geography, natural resource management and planning
Human dimensions of global change; environmental security and resource conflicts; political ecology; risk; people-reef interactions; climate justice; pedagogy and technology
Sea ice dynamics and mechanics
Atmospheric/climate science with a focus on understanding and modeling tropical convection and clouds.
Land use, climate change and disturbance effects on hydrology, geomorphology, water quality, spatio-temporal statistics
Dissolved gases, isotope biogeochemistry, marine biological pump, and marine carbon cycle
Seascape ecology, remote sensing, global change
Marine geology, igneous geochemistry
Satellite remote sensing using time series imagery, pattern and processes of landscape change, "Landtrendr"
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography
High temperature geochemistry, igneous petrology, In-situ elemental and isotopic analysis
Isotope geochemistry of hotspot volcanism, plate tectonic theory, mantle geodynamics
Coastal oceanography, shelf/deep-sea exchange processes, remote sensing, ocean acoustics, ocean circulation
Fluvial geomorphology, hydrology
The impacts of abrupt and complex bathymetry across scales on the ecology and behavior of marine animals with a special focus on the deep sea.
Coastal physical oceanography
Marine pelagic microorganisms, biogeochemical cycles, nitrogen fixation, photosynthesis, chlorophyll passive (solar-induced) fluorescence
Miocene equatorial Pacific paleoproductivity, ocean carbon cycling, geochemical tracers, seismic stratigraphy and pelagic sedimentation
Ecology and biogeochemistry of the seafloor
tropical chemical ecology, plant-insect interactions, reforestation, savanna ecology
Large-scale ocean circulation, the dynamics of western boundary currents, ocean modeling, geophysical fluid dynamics. the circulation in the Southern Ocean
Biodiversity responses to land use and climate change; avian ecology; species interactions
Science and society; marine ecology; leadership development; science communication & strategic engagement; transdisciplinarity
Using metabolomics and other techniques to understand the cycling of carbon by marine microbes
Active tectonics, tectonic geomorphology, structural geology
Regional climate modeling, the influence of climate change on western US snowpack. No longer advising Ph.D. students.
The physics of turbulence, mixing and other small-scale processes in the ocean and near ice.
We also develop new technologies (like autonomous vehicles and sensor systems) to measure glacier ice melt, internal waves, submesoscale instabilities, and use these observations to better understand ocean dynamics.
Remote sensing, GIS, automated visualization and analysis tools
Air-sea interactions, satellite meteorology and oceanography, atmospheric boundary layer and ocean mixed layer dynamics
Near-shore circulation modeling, data assimilation in the near-shore region, time-series analysis techniques
Physics of mixing processes (i.e. turbulence) in the ocean
Disasters, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, community health, social justice and inclusion, humanitarian and conflict-affected contexts
Glacier and ice sheet dynamics, ice/ocean interactions, ice rheology and deformation, ice-core climate history
Snow, mountain, and forest hydrology; remote sensing; numerical modeling; data assimilation; machine learning; streamflow forecasting; hydroclimate interactions, extremes, disturbance, and change
Benthic biogeochemistry; chemical sensor development; redox conditions in natural waters and sediments, carbonate chemistry
Coastal geomorphology, coastal hazards, nearshore processes
Climate variability, anthropogenic influences on climate and hydrology, streamflow processes
Fluid dynamics and thermodynamics of the ocean and atmosphere, coastal and arctic meteorology, nonlinear dynamics of geophysical fluids
Wetlands ecology, biogeography
Climate change, ocean biogeochemical cycles, interactions in the climate system, paleoclimate, ocean circulation
Geophysical imaging to study the structure and composition of Earth’s interior
Nature of structure and strain along major faults making up the southern California plate boundary
Physical processes in coastal ocean, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)
Climate dynamics, general circulation of the atmosphere, interactions between radiative transfer and the dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean, climate modeling
Geochemical tracer development, transport and fate of metals/metalloids
Small-scale ocean dynamics, such as turbulent mixing, internal gravity waves, and upper ocean processes
Mountain precipitation and hydrology, global hydrologic cycle, regional climate change and variability
Upper ocean turbulence, mesoscale coastal internal waves, ocean-atmosphere coupling
Turbulence in geophysical flows, thermohaline processes, nonlinear waves
Low-temperature thermochronology, field geology, and applications of remote sensing date to geology mapping
The main pathways in marine ecosystems, coupled physical-biological models
Sediment magnetism, stratigraphy, paleoclimatology
Ecohydrology; interactions of climate, vegetation and geology
Mineral deposits, Igneous petrology, volcanology, experimental petrology
Igneous petrology, isotope geochemistry, electron probe microscopy
Critical GIS, Critical Cartography, Political Ecology, and geocomputation
Microbe-metazoan Interactions, deep-sea and polar ecology, food web dynamics, deep-sea habitats, annelid ecology
Community resilience to chronic and acute hazards; equitable adaptations for hazard mitigation; wildland-urban interface social vulnerability and resilience; food-energy-water nexus decision-making; green infrastructure; stakeholder engagement and outreach
Paleoceanography, ocean circulation, ocean-glacier interactions
Ocean acidification effects on bivalves, benthic ecology and sediment biogeochemistry, tidal flat ecology
GIS, metadata, digital libraries and coastal atlases
Complex adaptive systems, environmental science, social-ecological systems, quantitative analyses, seascape ecology, marine spatial planning, coastal vulnerability
Using cave formations and polar ice cores to study Earth's climate history
Large-scale and long-term climate and atmospheric dynamics, climate variability and change, climate impacts and responses in natural and human-managed systems
Physics of the nearshore coastal ocean including waves, currents, and sediment transport.
Transboundary water conflicts and conflict resolution
Climate hazards, climate change adaptation, social vulnerability, migration, and political ecology
Distance and online education, paleoclimatology
Ocean modeling and data assimilation, satellite altimetry, and geophysical fluid dynamics
How the ocean and the atmosphere interact using field measurements from a diverse set of regions including estuaries, the open ocean, and the Arctic
