Researchers
Todd Anderson
Professor of Biology
CMIL Director
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
Elizabeth Dinsdale
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D. James Cook University (2005)
Program Area: Ecology
Research Interests: Microbial and viral community dynamics in coral reef, kelp forests and oxygen minimum zones
Matt Edwards
Professor of Biology
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz (2001)
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)
Robert Edwards
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D. University of Sussex, England (1994)
Program Area: Cell and Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Annotation of microbial genomes; bioinformatics of random community genomes (metagenomes)
Richard Gersberg
Professor of Environmental Health
Ph.D. University of California, Davis (1977)
Program Area: Graduate School of Public Health
Research Interests: Water quality research and limnology; chemical and microbiological pollutants and risk assessments
Brian Hentschel
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D. University of Washington (1995)
Program Area: Ecology
Research Interests: Marine invertebrates, benthic ecology, complex life cycles, ontogenetic niche shifts, larval ecology, deposit feeding, organism-flow interactions
Eunha Hoh
Associate Professor of Environmental Health
Ph.D. Indiana University (2006)
Program Area: Public Health
Research Interests: Environmental pollutants and their impact on human health
Kevin Hovel
Professor of Biology
Ph.D. Virginia Institute of Marine Science (1999)
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
Arielle Levine
Assistant Professor of Geography
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (2006)
Program Area: Geography
Research Interests: Coastal and marine spatial planning; socioeconomic assessment and monitoring for marine and coastal management; marine protected area policy and implementation (particularly in coral reef ecosystems)
Rebecca Lewison
Professor of Biology
Ph.D. University of California, Davis (2002)
Program Area: Ecology
Research Interests: Vertebrate conservation, population ecology, behavioral ecology, estimating the impact of anthropogenic disturbances, resource and land use
Jeremy Long
Associate 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
Jillian Maloney
Assistant Professor of Geology
Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2013)
Program Area: Geology
Research Interests: Sequence stratigraphy and sediment processes; neotectonics, paleoseismology, earthquake hazard; subaqueous landslides; coastal geomorphology; geologic controls on habitats
Walter Oechel
Distinguished Professor of Biology
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside (1970)
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
Ph.D. San Diego State University (1997)
Program Area: Cell and Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Genomic analysis of marine phage, opportunistic infections and coral disease, diversity of coral-associated bacteria
Stephen Schellenberg
Associate Professor of Geology
Ph.D. University of Southern California (2000)
Program Area: Geology
Research Interests: Paleobiology and paleoecology of invertebrates and protists, Mesozoic and Cenozoic paleoceanography, applications of isotopic and elemental chemistry to biological, ecological, and environmental research
Robert Zeller
Professor of Biology
Ph.D. University of Southern California (2000)
Program Area: Cell and Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Chordate development, evolution of development, evolution of genomic regulatory networks, genomics, bioinformatics