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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.