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.
Winter Term 2025
- January 10 – Mo Walczak, Location, location, location: could a small ice sheet impact global thermohaline circulation?
- January 17 – Alyssa Shiel, Hidden Danger in Plain Sight: Uncovering Lead Sources in Urban Environments
- January 24 – Jennifer Fehrenbacher, Ecological Mysteries of Non-Spinose Foraminifera Revealed Through Geochemistry and Observations
- January 31 – Asmita Banerjee, Novel oxygen isotopes and tales of atmospheres past
- February 7 – Laura Moore, Title TBD
- February 14 – Emily Eidam, Arctic permafrost coasts are eroding—but where does all the mud go?
- February 21 – Julia Marks Peterson, Old ice from cold places: insights into Earth’s greenhouse gas history through the Pleistocene
- February 28 – Natasha Christman, Title TBD
- March 7 – Kelsey Lane, Title TBD
- March 14 – Laurie Juranek, Title TBD
- March 21 – Burke Hales, Ocean carbon remediation and renewable energy. Will the Broligarchy save us?