Faculty Researchers
Matt Edwards
Professor of Biology
Program Area: Ecology
Research Interests: Marine ecology, scale-dependent regulation of subtidal kelp forests, recruitment processes in marine macroalgae (with emphasis on the role of dormant stages), impacts of large disturbances (El Niño-Southern Oscillations)
Gretchen Goodbody
Associate Professor of Biology; CMIL Director
Ph.D. Harvard University (2009)
Program Area: Ecology
Research Interests: Population structure, reproductive ecology, and genetic connectivity of organisms that inhabit tropical coral reef ecosystems ranging from inshore shallow reefs down to the mesophotic zone.
Brian Hentschel
Associate Professor of Biology
Program Area: Ecology
Research Interests: Marine invertebrates, benthic ecology, complex life cycles, ontogenetic niche shifts, larval ecology, deposit feeding, organism-flow interactions
Rebecca Lewison
Professor of Biology
Program Area: Ecology
Research Interests: Vertebrate conservation, population ecology, behavioral ecology, estimating the impact of anthropogenic disturbances, resource and land use
Kevin Hovel
Professor of Biology
Program Area: Ecology
Research Interests: Marine invertebrate conservation ecology: relationship between habitat structure and faunal survival and abundance; effects of habitat fragmentation on fauna in marine systems; crustacean ecology; larval dispersal and recruitment; seagrass community ecology; kelp forest ecology
Jeremy Long
Professor of Biology
Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology (2004)
Program Area: Ecology
Research Interests: Marine chemical ecology; consumer-prey interactions; ecology of planktonic, rocky shore, and salt marsh ecosystems
Luke Miller
Assistant Professor of Biology
Program Area: Ecology
Research Interests: Temperature stress and climate change; Ecophysiology; Biomechanics; Rocky intertidal ecosystems; Ocean acidification; Behavior; Predator-prey interactions; Heat budget modeling; Sensor and datalogger development
Walter Oechel
Distinguished Professor of Biology
Program Area: Ecology
Research Interests: Plant physiological ecology; ecosystem ecology, effects of global change and elevated carbon dioxide on native ecosystems, especially tundra and Mediterranean-type ecosystems
Forest Rohwer
Professor of Biology
Program Area: Cell and Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Genomic analysis of marine phage, opportunistic infections and coral disease, diversity of coral-associated bacteria
Robert Zeller
Professor of Biology
Program Area: Cell and Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Chordate development, evolution of development, evolution of genomic regulatory networks, genomics, bioinformatics
Todd Anderson
Emeritus Professor of Biology
Ph.D. University California, Santa Barbara (1993)
Program Area: Ecology
Research Interests: Marine ecology, recruitment processes, population and community ecology of coastal temperate and tropical fishes, influence of habitat structure on demographic processes