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, Byron Crump, Emily Eidam, Jennifer Fehrenbacher, Miguel Goñi, Burke Hales, Brian Haley, Laurie Juranek, Maria Kavanaugh, Astrid Leitner, Ricardo Letelier, Erin McParland, 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
(Unless otherwise noted. Additional or updated information will be added as it becomes available.
Spring Term 2025
- April 4 – Burke Hales, Ocean carbon remediation and renewable energy. Will the Broligarchy save us?
- April 11 – Léo Mahieu, Iron complexation by organic matter in the South Pacific: a source of strong ligand for the global Ocean?
- April 18 – Kelly Shannon, Springtime upwelling conditions influence microbial communities and dissolved thiamin compounds in the California Current Ecosystem
- April 25 – James Watson, Machine Learning Prediction of Marine Regime Shifts, Natural Capital Asset Pricing of Marine Resources and Parametric Insurance for Marine Heatwaves
- May 2 – Rick Colwell, Title TBD
- May 9 – Anna Hughes, An intercomparison of two underway pCO2 measurement systems and lessons learned in preparation for science trials on the R/V Taani
- May 16 – Byron Crump, Title TBD
- May 23 – Erin McParland, Title TBD
- May 30 – Juan Gutierrez, Midwater anoxia disrupts the trophic structure of zooplankton and fish in an oxygen deficient zone (L&O, 2025, doi: 10.1002/lno.12813)
- June 6 – Andrew Barnard, NASA PACE satellite observations: innovations in viewing the surface oceans and the atmosphere from space
- June 13 – Astrid Leitner, Title TBD