Oceanography Faculty

  • 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