- Jack Barth, Professor, Executive Director of the Marine Studies Initiative
Coastal ocean dynamics, coastal marine ecosystems, hypoxia, inner continental shelf dynamics - Kim Bernard, Professor
Polar zooplankton ecology - Lorenzo Ciannelli, Professor and Director of Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Program
Fisheries oceanography, spatial ecology, fish early life stages, statistical analysis of catch and survey data - Rick Colwell, Professor
Microbial ecology, subsurface microbiology, geomicrobiology - Byron Crump, Professor and Program Head for Oceanography
Aquatic microbial ecology in marine, estuarine and freshwater ecosystems - Simon de Szoeke, Professor
Atmosphere-ocean interaction, stratiform clouds, tropical meteorology - Ed Dever, Professor
Cross-shelf exchange processes, analysis and prediction of Lagrangian transport, air-sea interaction - Emily Eidam, Associate Professor
Sediment transport processes and rates in fluvial, coastal, and continental shelf systems, as well as event-scale to centennial-scale sediment deposition - Jennifer Fehrenbacher, Associate Professor
Tracer oceanography - Melanie Fewings, Professor
Observational coastal physical oceanography and meteorology - Jonathan Fram, Associate Professor (Senior Research)
Ocean Observatories Initiative - Jessica Garwood, Assistant Professor
Small-scale physical-biological interactions in the ocean, especially their implications for transport of plankton or sediment - Miguel Goñi, Professor
Cycling of natural organic matter in the earth's surface, mainly in aquatic environments - Burke Hales, Professor
Coastal ocean carbon cycles, ocean acidification, measurement and experimental manipulation technology. - Merrick Haller, Professor
Nearshore remote sensing, surface wave transformation, rip currents, sediment transport. - Michael Harte, Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs
Marine geography, natural resource management and planning - Jenny Hutchings, Professor
Sea ice dynamics - Laurie Juranek, Professor
Dissolved gases, isotope biogeochemistry, marine biological pump, and marine carbon cycle - Maria Kavanaugh, Associate Professor
Seascape ecology, remote sensing, global change - Mike Kosro, Professor
Coastal oceanography, shelf/deep-sea exchange processes, remote sensing, ocean acoustics, ocean circulation - Astrid Leitner, Assistant Professor
The impacts of abrupt and complex bathymetry across scales on the ecology and behavior of marine animals with a special focus on the deep sea. - Jim Lerczak, Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Coastal physical oceanography - Ricardo Letelier, Professor
Marine pelagic microorganisms, biogeochemical cycles, nitrogen fixation, photosynthesis - Ricardo Matano, Professor
Large-scale ocean circulation, the dynamics of western boundary currents, ocean modeling, geophysical fluid dynamics. the circulation in the Southern Ocean - Erin McParland, Assistant Professor
Using metabolomics and other techniques to understand the cycling of carbon by marine microbes - Jonathan Nash, Professor
Physics of turbulence and ocean mixing - Larry O'Neill, Associate Professor
Air-sea interactions, satellite meteorology and oceanography, atmospheric boundary layer and ocean mixed layer dynamics - Tuba Özkan-Haller, Dean and Professor
Near-shore circulation modeling, data assimilation in the near-shore region, time-series analysis techniques - Brodie Pearson, Assistant Professor
Physics of mixing processes (i.e. turbulence) in the ocean - Clare Reimers, Distinguished Professor of Ocean Ecology and Biogeochemistry
Benthic biogeochemistry; chemical sensor development; redox conditions in natural waters and sediments, carbonate chemistry - Peter Ruggiero, Professor
Coastal geomorphology, coastal hazards, nearshore processes - Roger Samelson, Professor
Fluid dynamics and thermodynamics of the ocean and atmosphere, coastal and arctic meteorology, nonlinear dynamics of geophysical fluids - Andreas Schmittner, Professor
Climate change, ocean biogeochemical cycles, interactions in the climate system, paleoclimate, ocean circulation - Kipp Shearman, Professor
Physical processes in coastal ocean, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) - Alyssa Shiel, Associate Professor
Geochemical tracer development, transport and fate of metals/metalloids - Emily Shroyer, Professor
Small-scale ocean dynamics, such as turbulent mixing, internal gravity waves, and upper ocean processes - Eric Skyllingstad, Professor
Upper ocean turbulence, mesoscale coastal internal waves, ocean-atmosphere coupling - William Smyth, Professor
Turbulence in geophysical flows, thermohaline processes, nonlinear waves - Yvette Spitz, Professor
The main pathways in marine ecosystems, coupled physical-biological models - Joe Stoner, Professor
Sediments magnetism, paleomagnetism, environmental magnetism, geomagnetism, sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleoclimatology. - Andrew Thurber, Associate Professor
Microbe-metazoan Interactions, deep-sea and polar ecology, food web dynamics, deep-sea habitats, annelid ecology - Mo Walczak, Assistant Professor
Application of foraminiferal stable isotopes in marine sediments for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions and sediment depositional histories - George Waldbusser, Professor
Ocean acidification effects on bivalves, benthic ecology and sediment biogeochemistry, tidal flat ecology - Greg Wilson, Associate Professor
physics of the nearshore coastal ocean including waves, currents, and sediment transport - Seth Zippel, Assistant Professor
How the ocean and the atmosphere interact using field measurements from a diverse set of regions including estuaries, the open ocean, and the Arctic