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
Winter Term 2026
Information will be updated as it becomes available.
- January 9 – Miguel Goñi, Tracing Biogeochemical Processes in Alaskan Arctic Waters during the Open Water Season (Part I): Hydrography and dissolved chemical tracers
- January 16 – Miguel Goñi, Tracing Biogeochemical Processes in Alaskan Arctic Waters during the Open Water Season (Part II): Particulate organic matter cycling
- January 23 – Astrid Leitner, Incorporating higher trophic level sampling into seagoing oceanography with PICA, A New Pelagic and Benthopelagic Towed Camera and Environmental Sensing Array
- January 30 – Samara Haver, From soundscapes to solutions: listening to a changing ocean
- February 6 – Zhaozhong Zhuang, Broadband acoustic characterization of the deep scattering layers in a shark-occupied anticyclonic eddy
- February 13 – TBD
- February 20 – Manuel Garcia-Jaramillo, Topic TBD
- February 27 – Lorenzo Ciannelli, Archeology, vulcanology, fisheries, tourism, conservation - can we take our students there?
- March 6 – Cheng Li, Long distance electron transfers of cable bacteria and their potential environmental applications
- March 13 – Annette Govindarajan, Topic TBD
- March 20 – Léo Mahieu, Topic TBD