BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY FACULTY

Lawrence J. Buckley, marine biochemistry, aquaculture
Jeremy S. Collie, quantitative marine ecology
Edward G. Durbin, marine planktonic food chains, zooplankton, and fish ecology
Paul E. Hargraves, phytoplankton systematics, morphology, and biogeography
Scott W. Nixon, estuarine and wetland ecosystems
Stephen B. Olsen, coastal management
Candace A. Oviatt, marine ecology
Charles T. Roman, coastal ecosystems, ecology of estuaries and salt marshes
Theodore J. Smayda, phytoplankton ecology and physiology
David C. Smith, marine microbial ecology, food web dynamics
Jennifer Specker, fish endocrinology, adaptation and development
Elijah Swift, marine phytoplankton, oceanic bioluminescence
Karen Wishner, maine zooplankton ecology, deep-sea biology
James A. Yoder, biological oceanography, remote sensing

Biological Oceanography Marine Research Scientists

Robert G. Campbell, zooplankton physiology and ecology
Mary-Lynn Dickson,biogeochemical tracers, carbon and nitrogen cycling
Percy Donaghay, zooplankton physiology and population dynamics in changing environments.
Dian J. Gifford, planktonic protozoa, grazing processes in oceanic ecosystems
Robert D. Kenney, distributional biology, behavior of mammals
Grace Klein-MacPhee, early life history of marine fishes
William K. Macy III, physiological ecology of cephalopods
Lucie Maranda, ecology, life history and physiology of dinoflagellates
Barbara L. Nowicki, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling in coastal waters
Jan Rines, phytoplankton systematics and ecology
Petra M. Stegmann, dynamics of biological and physical interactions
Barbara K. Sullivan, predator-prey interactions of medusae and ctenophores.

Emeriti Faculty

H. Perry Jeffries, stability and pattern of distribution in marine communities.
Theodore A. Napora, physiology and adaptive morphology of zooplankton
Saul B. Saila, fish population dynamics
John Seiburth, planktonic methanogenesis and sulfate-reduction

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 CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY FACULTY

Brian Heikes, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric oxidants, heterogeneous processes
Craig McNeil, air-sea gas exchange, upper-ocean process and interactions
John T. Merrill, atmospheric transport, atmospheric waves
S. Bradley Moran, trace element and radionuclide geochemistry, ocean particle dynamics
James G. Quinn, marine organic chemistry
Kenneth A. Rahn, atmospheric chemistry in the Arctic and mid- latitudes

Chemical Oceanography Marine Research Scientists

Alfred K. Hanson, Jr., marine biogeochemistry and photochemistry
Kenneth R. Hinga, fates and effects of chemicals in the marine environment

Emeriti Faculty

Michael E. Q. Pilson, chemistry of seawater, experimental biogeochemistry and ecology

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GEOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY FACULTY

Robert D. Ballard, geology of continental margins, volcanic, and hydrothermal processes at the mid-ocean ridge, development of ROV systems
Steven N. Carey, volcanology and marine volcaniclastic sedimentation
Steven D'Hondt, geobiology, paleoceanography
Christopher Kincaid, geophysical fluid dynamics, mantle dynamics, estuarine circulation
John King, paleomagnetism, rock magnetism, palynology
Roger L. Larson, marine geophysics, plate tectonics
Margaret Leinen, sediment geochemistry, mineralogy and paleoceanography
Kate Moran, marine geotechnics
Jean-Guy Schilling, volcanology, isotope and trace element geochemistry, mantle dynamics
Yang Shen, marine geophysics, seismology
Haraldur Sigurdsson, petrology of igneous rocks, ocean ridge and island arc volcanism
Arthur Spivack, geochemistry, dynamics and evolution of the chemistry of the ocean, atmosphere and sediments

Geological Oceanography Marine Research Scientists

Elizabeth L. Laliberte, geochemistry, analysis of sediment for trace metal contamination
Robert Pockalny,tectonics and fault geophysics

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PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY FACULTY

Peter Cornillon, ocean engineering, remote sensing oceanography
David Farmer, acoustical oceanography
Isaac Ginis, structure and dynamics of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system
Tetsu Hara, surface waves, air-sea interaction
David L. Hebert, small-scale mixing processes
Hans Thomas Rossby, ocean circulation and instrumentation
Lewis Rothstein, geophysical fluid dynamics, equatorial dynamics
D. Randolph Watts, dynamics and variability of ocean currents and water masses
Mark Wimbush, turbulence, tides and waves, Kuroshio

Physical Oceanography Marine Research Scientists

Igor Belkin, ocean fronts
Kathleen Donohue, ocean circulation
Mark D. Prater, upper ocean processes
Georgi Sutyrin, theoretical geophysical dynamics
David S. Ullman, dynamics of ocean fronts

Emeriti Faculty

John A. Knauss, ocean circulation, marine affairs: U.S. marine policy

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