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.
Fall Term 2025
- September 26 – Kristen Buck, Insights into nickel biogeochemistry from measurements of nickel speciation
- October 3 – No seminar
- October 10 – Julia Fontana, Impacts of Climate-Driven Food-Web Dynamics on the Early Winter Physiology of Antarctic Krill
- October 17 – Nick Baetge, Wildfire ash and the ocean: Microbial responses and organic matter bioavailability
- October 24 – Clare Gaffey, Phytoplankton phenology in the Pacific Arctic region
- October 31 – Fabian Wittmers, Title TBD
- November 7 – Nick Bouskill, From Microbes to Catchments: Landscape regulation of Nitrogen retention and release in mountainous ecosystems
- November 14 – Joshua Stewart, The future of baleen whales: Recoveries, environmental constraints, and climate change
- November 21 – Jennifer Wong-Ala, Title TBD
- November 28 – No seminar, Thanksgiving week
- December 5 – Molly Keogh, Title TBD
- December 12 – Jennifer Fehrenbacher, Title TBD