| Ambrose, Richard F. |
Professor, Public Health / Environmental Health Sciences / Enviro |
UCLA |
(310) 825-6144 |
Estuaries/Bays/Coastal Watersheds |
Restoration ecology for coastal environments such as wetlands, ecology of coastal wetlands, estuaries, artificial and natural reefs, and riparian habitats; long-term ecological monitoring assessment of changes in marine communities, especially rocky intertidal communities; environmental impact assessment; development and scientific evaluation of mitigation techniques. |
| Ambrose, Richard F. |
Professor & Director of Environmental Science & Engineering Prog |
UCLA |
(310) 206-6144 |
Nearshore Biology/Ecology |
Restoration ecology for coastal environments such as wetlands, ecology of coastal wetlands, estuaries, artificial and natural reefs, and riparian habitats; long-term ecological monitoring assessment of changes in marine communities, especially rocky intertidal communities; environmental impact assessment; development and scientific evaluation of mitigation techniques. |
| Arnold, Jeanne E. |
Professor of Anthropology |
UCLA |
(310)206-5801 |
Paleoceanography/Paleoclimatology and Global Change |
Archaeology of the California Islands and North American Pacific Coast; ancient human uses of marine resources, ancient American watercraft, paleoenvironmental reconstruction |
| Brunk, Clifford F. |
Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, Co-chair, Biology |
UCLA |
(310)825-3114 |
Marine Biotechnology/Molecular Marine Biology/Marine Microbiology |
Characterization of marine microbial populations using molecular techniques; quantitative polymearse chain reaction analysis of coastal marine bacteria including species distributions and dynamics of population change. |
| Buth, Donald G. |
Professor of Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution |
UCLA |
(310)206-6084 |
Fish/Fisheries/Aquaculture/Marine Resources |
Systematics of fishes, use of allozymes and comparative morphometry in studies of population structure and phylogenetic relationships; helminth parasitology of intertidal fishes. |
| Fong, Peggy M. |
Assistant Professor of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution |
UCLA |
(310)825-5444 |
Nearshore Biology/Ecology |
Macroalgal, seagrass, and coral reef community structure; simulation modeling at the population, community and ecosystem process levels; nutrient dynamics; disturbance ecology; restoration ecology; experimental design and statistical analysis. |
| Ghil, Michael |
Professor, Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physical/Atmospheric Science |
UCLA |
(310)206-1651 |
Physical Oceanography/Meteorology/Climatology |
Physical oceanography; low frequency variability of the oceans' wind-driven and thermohaline circulation, from months to millennia; oceanic fronts and eddies; model assimilation of satellite and in situ data. |
| Gonzalez, Elma L. |
Professor of Organisms Biology, Ecology and Evolution |
UCLA |
(310)835-3922 |
Physiology |
Cell physiology and biochemistry of biocalcification in the coccolithophorids and other marine algae; genetics and expression of carbon concentrating mechanisms in calcifying algae. |
| Gordon, Malcolm S. |
Professor of Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution |
UCLA |
(310)825-4579 |
Fish/Fisheries/Aquaculture/Marine Resources |
Ecological physiology of marine animals, especially fishes; biofluid dynamics of swimming and adaptations of amphibious fishes for life out of water. |
| Halpern, David |
Adjunct Professor of Atmospheric Science |
UCLA |
(310)825-1217 |
Physical Oceanography/Meteorology/Climatology |
Physical oceanography and ocean-atmosphere interactions, emphasizing how physical and biological ocean dynamics respond to wind forcing. |
| Hamner, William M. |
Professor of Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution Director: Marine Scien |
UCLA |
(310)825-9302 |
Biological Oceanography |
Behavior of pelagic animals;dynamics of animal aggregations at sea. Fine-scale physical and chemical structure of the sea via SCUBA and submersibles. |
| Heying, John E. |
Adjunct Associate Professor of Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution |
UCLA |
(213)763-3367 |
Marine Mammal/Vertebrate Biology |
Evolution, morphology, natural history, and conservation of marine mammals. |
| Jacobs, David K. |
Assistant Professor of Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution |
UCLA |
(310)206-7885 |
Biological Oceanography |
Developmental genetics and the evolution of marine invertebrate morphology, speciation in the sea, impact of climate and oceanographic change of faunal evolution, and marine functional morphology. |
| Jacobs, David K. |
Assistant Professor of Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution |
UCLA |
(310)206-7885 |
Nearshore Biology/Ecology |
Developmental genetics and the evolution of marine invertebrate morphology, speciation in the sea, impact of climate and oceanographic change of faunal evolution, and marine functional morphology. |
| Jacobs, David K. |
Assistant Professor of Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution |
UCLA |
(310)206-7885 |
Physiology |
Developmental genetics and the evolution of marine invertebrate morphology, speciation in the sea, impact of climate and oceanographic change of faunal evolution, and marine functional morphology. |
| McWilliams, James C. |
Professor of Earth Sciences |
UCLA |
(310)206-2829 |
Physical Oceanography/Meteorology/Climatology |
Physical oceanography: the theory and computational modeling of the earth's oceans and atmosphere. |
| Orme, Antony R. |
Professor of Geography |
UCLA |
(310)825-1516 |
Coastal Processes/ Coastal and Ocean Engineering |
Coastal and nearshore geomorphology, hydrodynamics, and sedimentology, with special focus on relative sea-level change, coastal erosion and mass movement, barrier-lagoon systems, and estuarine and wetland morphodynamics. Regional focus on Pacific North America, Africa, and Northwest Europe. |
| Orme, Antony R. |
Professor of Geography |
UCLA |
(310)825-1516 |
Marine Geology/Geophysics/Tectonics |
Coastal and nearshore geomorphology, hydrodynamics, and sedimentology, with special focus on relative sea-level change, coastal erosion and mass movement, barrier-lagoon systems, and estuarine and wetland morphodynamics. Regional focus on Pacific North America, Africa, and Northwest Europe. |
| Raustiala, Kal |
Acting Professor |
UCLA |
(310)794-4856 |
Marine Law Policy /Planning |
International environmental law and politics, multilateral regulatory cooperation, environmental protection, institutional designs and questions of compliance, implementation and effectiveness. |
| Runnegar, Bruce N. |
Professor of Earth & Space Sciences and Director, IGPP center for Astrobiol |
UCLA |
(310)206-1738 |
Paleoceanography/Paleoclimatology and Global Change |
Paleontology, geobiology, and astrobiology focusing on the early evolution of life on Earth and long-term changes in ocean chemistry governed by orbital dynamics and the evolution of carbon cycling. |
| Stenstrom, Michael K. |
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering |
UCLA |
(310)825-1408 |
Coastal Processes/ Coastal and Ocean Engineering |
Environmental engineering; wastewater treatment technologies; storm water management and BMP development. |
| Stolzenbach, Keith D. |
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering |
UCLA |
(310)206-7624 |
Chemical/Geochemical/Biogeochemical Oceanography |
Integrated modeling of the southern California coastal ocean: biogeochemistry and particulate dynamics; integrated urban watershed analysis; measuring and modeling atmospheric deposition on Santa Monica Bay and its watershed. |
| Stolzenbach, Keith D. |
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering |
UCLA |
(310)206-7624 |
Estuaries/Bays/Coastal Watersheds
Estuaries/Bays/Coastal Watersheds
Estuaries/Bays/Coastal Watersh |
Integrated modeling of the southern California coastal ocean: biogeochemistry and particulate dynamics; integrated urban watershed analysis; measuring and modeling atmospheric deposition on Santa Monica Bay and its watershed. |
| Suffet, Irwin (Mel) |
Professor of Environmental Science & Engineering Program |
UCLA |
(310)206-8230 |
Chemical/Geochemical/Biogeochemical Oceanography |
Estuary and marine chemistry of trace organics and metals: Bioavailability and transport chemistry of humic substances (colloids, suspended solids and sediments); developing analytical techniques for trace organics. |
| Suffet, Irwin (Mel) |
Professor of Environmental Science & Engineering |
UCLA |
(310)206-8230 |
Estuaries/Bays/Coastal Watersheds
Estuaries/Bays/Coastal WatershedsEstuaries/Bays/Coastal Watershed |
Estuary and marine chemistry of trace organics and metals: bioavailability and transport chemistry of humic substances (colloids, suspended solids and sediments); developing analytical techniques for trace organics. |
| Turco, Richard P. |
Professor of Atmospheric Science & Director of Institute of the Environment |
UCLA |
(310)825-6936 |
Estuaries/Bays/Coastal Watersheds |
Integrated urban watershed analysis; southern California Center for Airborne Particulate Matter; methods for developing and evaluating computer models used in integrated assessment; campuswide initiative for interdisciplinary study of the environment with remote sensing. |
| Vance, Richard R. |
Associate Professor of Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution |
UCLA |
(310)825-2685 |
Estuaries/Bays/Coastal Watersheds |
Ecology and restoration of salt marshes in southern California; ecology of marine benthic communities; mathematical and computer models of ecological processes. |
| Venkatesan, M. Indira |
Associate Professor of Geophysics & Planetary Physics |
UCLA |
(310)206-2561 |
Chemical/Geochemical/Biogeochemical Oceanography |
Chemical oceanography, marine biogeochemistry and carbon cycle, measuring trace organic compounds and stable isotopes to infer source, transport and fate of environmental pollutants in marine waters. |
| Zimmer, Richard K. |
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Neurosciences Pr |
UCLA |
(310) 206-4981 |
Biological Oceanography |
Ecology and sensory biology of aquatic organisms; chemical signals and
communication |
| Zimmer, Richard K. |
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Neurosciences Pr |
UCLA |
(310) 206-4981 |
Chemical/Geochemical/Biogeochemical Oceanography |
Ecology and sensory biology of aquatic organisms; chemical signals and
communication. |
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