Affiliates

Early Origins and Evolution of Microbial Life, Interaction Between Microbial Life and its Environment across Earth’s History, Evolution of Marine Bacteria and Archaea, Bioinformatics, Phylogenomics

Marine Bioinorganic Chemistry and Metallobiochemistry.

Main research interests: tropical climates, monsoon systems, mountain meteorology, fire weather regimes, and extremes.

Chris’ research addresses natural resource and environmental management under uncertainty and incomplete property rights.

Molecular mechanisms of self/non-self recognition in non-vertebrates; characterization of stem cells and development processes underlying regeneration and aging.

Marine Geophysics, Seismology, Tectonophysics, Inverse Theory.

Marine ecology, community ecology, species interactions.

Environmental microbiology, water quality, pollutants, soils, urban and protected areas.

Geochemistry and Igneous Petrology.

Climate variability and change, monsoons, extreme events, predictability, wildfires and regional modeling.

Bruce is an ecological theoretician and modeler who applies population ecology to problems in conservation and fisheries management.

The mission of our research group is to reveal the role of infectious diseases in ecosystems. We investigate parasite ecology, disease ecology, food web dynamics, ecology and evolution of infectious strategies, and control of human parasites.

USGS ecologist studying food webs (and parasites) in kelp forests, estuaries, coral reefs and beaches.

Geochemistry, Geomorphology, the Carbon Cycle

Wind energy, conductivity sensing, drag reduction using superhydrophobic surfaces, cohesive sediment.

Limnology and Coastal Oceanography, with particular emphasis on physical-biological coupling.

Understanding the ecology of communities and ecosystems in a rapidly changing world.

Ecological processes in lakes, wetlands and streams and their catchments throughout the world.

Uses mathematics, experiments, and field observations to understand how metabolic interactions between species shape the structure and function of ecological communities.

I count photons and herd phytoplankton.

Synthetic biology; cellular and biomolecular engineering; sustainability and bioremediation; membrane proteins; genetic regulation.

Physical Oceanography

Pulver's research focuses broadly on the intersection of economic action and environmental harm and seeks to integrate theoretical frameworks related to global governance, organizational theory, and economic and environmental sociology.

Regulation of development and differentiation; regulation of programmed cell death and cell division; mechanisms of tumorigenesis.

Population and community ecology, marine ecology.

Developmental genetics and morphogenesis of the primitive chordate Ciona.

The Thurber Lab seeks to understand how the oceans work through a lens of combining biogeochemistry, microbiology and animal ecology. Much of the lab's research focuses on deep-sea and/or polar habitats, environments critical to a functioning planet and often overlooked for their importance. The lab aims to understand how these habitats function, how society benefits from them, and how this will change with our changing climate.

Ecology and evolution of marine sponges

Our lab studies the microbial and viral ecology of marine and terrestrial species. We use a variety of high tech approaches such as genomics and informatics to discover and understand how bacteria and viruses both positively and negatively interact with their hosts. Much of our work is focused on how these interactions are altered under anthropogenic stress and how they may lead to reduced host and ecosystem resilience. We also conduct work specifically on marine conservation, aiming to better evaluate the unseen biodiversity of marine systems and to identify innovative solutions to the global declines of key marine species.

Structure-properties relationships in loadbearing marine biomolecular materials, e.g. from mussels, squid and whelks, at different length and time scales to design new materials.