Ocean Ecology and Biogeochemistry (OEB) is the study of the ocean's biological, chemical, and geological processes, and their interplay Most broadly, Ocean Ecology and Biogeochemistry is concerned with the structure and function of ecosystems across space and time, including feedbacks between land, atmosphere and ocean. Research backgrounds of our faculty include paleo-reconstruction, population and community ecology, biogeochemical cycling, atmospheric sciences, optics, acoustics, remote sensing, hydrology, deep-biosphere, and climate science. This diversity provides opportunities to break down traditional disciplinary boundaries and explore new lines of research, and to provide students with basic core knowledge of the traditional disciplines while encouraging them to work more closely at disciplinary interfaces in an earth system science context.
OEB Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Document Version 1 March 5, 2021 (PDF on Box)
Teaching and Research Faculty
Andrew Barnard, Kim Bernard, Ed Brook, Kristen Buck, Lorenzo Ciannelli, Rick Colwell, Byron Crump, Emily Eidam, Jennifer Fehrenbacher, Miguel Goñi, Burke Hales, Brian Haley, Laurie Juranek, Maria Kavanaugh, Astrid Leitner, Ricardo Letelier, Erin McParland, Alan Mix, Clare Reimers, Andreas Schmittner, Alyssa Shiel, Yvette Spitz, Andrew Thurber, George Waldbusser, James Watson
Ocean Ecology and Biogeochemistry Seminar
Fridays from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Burt 193
(additional or updated information will be added as it becomes available)
Fall Term 2024
This information is tentative and will be updated as it is confirmed:
September 27 – Ian Black, Biophysical effects of marine heatwaves from surface to seafloor on the NH line
October 4 – Frankie Pavia title TBD (see Frankie Pavia website at University of Washington)
October 11 – Molly Keogh, It’s all downhill from here: Sediment trapping in the Arctic Basin
October 18 – Speaker TBD, title TBD
October 25 – Rachel Kaplan, Krill prey quality for humpback whales varies in time and space on the NCC foraging grounds
November 1 – Jasen Jacobsen, (virtual), Baroclinic Drivers of Marine Primary Production Idealized Numerical Models
November 8 – Miguel Goñi, Carbon sequestration in an Oregon Coast mid-shelf depocenter
November 15 – Maria Kavanaugh, Patterns and drivers of phytoplankton community composition and ecosystem functioning in the Northern California Current
November 22 – Ricardo Letelier, Temporal changes in productivity within the lower euphoric zone of the Eastern North Pacific subtropical gyre
November 29 – Thanksgiving holiday, no seminar
December 6 – George Waldbusser, Modeling multi-stressor climate change effects on oyster aquaculture in Chesapeake Bay: Linking ecosystem, organismal, and economic impacts
December 13 – AGU Fall Meeting, no seminar