All Academics

A

•  Conservation Ecology
•  Coastal Ecology
•  Mangrove Forests' Dynamics
•  Marine Reserves
•  Artisanal Fisheries
•  Gulf of California Ecoregion

•  Crustal deformation measurement and interpretation
•  Geophysical data analysis
•  Geophysical instrumentation
•  History of the Earth sciences

•  Natural Products and drug discovery. Industrial and Fermentation Microbiology. Genetics and Molecular Microbiology. Vaccine production.

•  Microbial genomics and metagenomics
•  Microbial oceanography
•  Genetic structure of microbial populations
•  Molecular genetics and ecological physiology of microbial "secondary lipid" biosynthesis (e.g., omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids)

•  Production, consumption, and burial of marine organic matter
•  Chemistry and biology of marine dissolved organic matter
•  Natural abundance 14C dating of marine organic matter
•  Natural abundance d15N measurements of marine organic matter
•  Microbial interactions with the Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles.

•  Stratified flows in the ocean, atmosphere, laboratory, and engineering applications
•  Oceanic mixing and circulation
•  Coherent vortices (meddies)

•  Emissions estimation of greenhouse and ozone depleting gases
•  Atmospheric chemistry
•  Analytical measurement methods for Earth science applications

•  Mid Ocean ridge processes
•  Oceanic crustal structure
•  Time domain elastic full waveform inversion
•  First arrival tomography
•  Reflection seismology

•  Physical and chemical processes in the space medium
•  Solid state chemistry
•  Environmental record in ocean sediments
•  Origin and early evolution of ocean-atmosphere
•  Molecular evolution toward life
•  RNA component formation by inorganic, geochemically plausible processes
•  Origin and early evolution of ocean-atmosphere
•  Molecular evolution toward life
•  RNA component formation by mineral surface reactions

•  Seismic array design and network operations of real time systems
•  Seismic noise estimates, data quality issues
•  Tectonics of Southern California and Middle America
•  Tectonis of subduction zones: deep and intermediate depth earthquakes
•  Earthquake source studies of large earthquakes
•  Temporal variations of stress fields & seismic noise
•  Site effects and seismic risk in populated areas

•  Microbial oceanography; marine biogeochemistry; coral microbiology
•  Biochemical adaptations of marine bacteria
•  Role of bacteria in marine food-web dynamics

B

•  Marine Seismology
•  Tectonics
•  Oceanic Crustal Structure
•  Continental Margins
•  Geophysical Instrumentation

•  Relativity
•  Core-mantle boundary phenomenon
•  Core fluid mechanics
•  Inversion of geomagnetic data

•  The geochemistry of amino acids with an emphasis on diagenetic reactions and their implications and applications
•  The sources and stability of organic compounds on the primitive Earth and other solar system bodies
•  The detection of possible remnants of ancient life on Mars both by in situ analyses on the planet, and from the study of Martian meteorites
•  Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic chronologies obtained from animal teeth

•  Ecology of Seabirds and Cetaceans
•  Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Management
•  Species Diversity Patterns and Trends in Space and Time (Interannual to Regime Shift Scales)

•  Biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems, especially Fe, Ni, Cu
•  Biological transformations of trace metal speciation; biological acquisition of trace metals
•  Photochemical redox cycling of trace metals
•  Metals as limiting or co-limiting micronutrients in marine planktonic systems

•  Marine mammal population dynamics
•  Marine mammal survey methods
•  Conservation biology
•  Cetacean acoustics
•  Acoustic and fisheries impacts

•  Greenhouse gas studies
•  El Niño-Southern Oscillation
•  Climate forecast model development
•  Decadal climate change

•  Deep-sea microbial diversity and ecology
•  Adaptations of deep-sea microbes to high pressure and low temperature
•  Microbial genetics, genomics, functional genomics

•  Calcium regulation in spawning Pacific salmon
•  Agricultural applications of methanol effects on plant growth
•  Arsenic metabolism in marine organisms

•  Design and operation of a worldwide network of very broadband seismometers for the study of earthquake source mechanisms, Earth structure
•  Design and development of data acquisition and communication systems
•  Design and development of infrasonic sensors
•  Development of satellite telemetry for global seismic data transmission
•  Application of seismological techniques to the monitoring of nuclear weapons test limitation treaties

•  Cenozoic paleoceanography based on deep-sea sediments
•  Multidecadal climate fluctuations from marine varves and tree rings
•  Climate and ecosystem response

•  Magmatic and tectonic processes at oceanic spreading centers and evolution of ridge-transform plate boundaries, using the following methods: Morphology, gravity, drilling, computer modeling of mantle flow and melting
•  Numerical simulation of mantle deformation and seismic anisotropy
•  Hydroacoustic studies of nuclear test monitoring capabilities

•  Development of space geodetic methods-GPS and interferometric SAR
•  Crustal deformation, tectonics, and earthquake studies using space geodesy
•  Meteorological and climatological applications of GPS
•  Precise GIS and GPS, geophysical data archiving

•  Molecular biology and physiology of cyanobacteria
•  Bacterial motility and chemotaxis
•  Bacterial diversity

•  Wave climate variability in the NE Pacific, western North Atlantic, and circum-Antarctic oceans.
•  Microseismic source areas and distribution in relation to wave climate - global.
•  Inferences of climate variability from historic seismogram ambient noise studies - global.
•  Tide gauge data studies: storm surge, infragravity waves.
•  Coastal impacts of storm surge and storm waves under rising sea levels.
•  Ocean bottom ambient noise variability: wave climate associations.
•  Shear waves in marine sediments.

•  Rock mechanics laboratory experiments, high-speed friction and direct shear experiments, physical properties.
•  Theoretical developments in earthquake physics relating changes in fault rheology during the earthquake cycle and the onset of unstable slip (origins of slow and fast earthquakes etc.).
•  Long-term ocean observatory developments. Combining offshore geodetics and physical oceanography to facilitate enhanced integrated cross-disciplinary marine science.
•  Marine hydrological/geochemical instrumentation development to study the interactions between hydrology/gas hydrates/active tectonic and aqueous geochemical variations.

•  Shallow-water ocean acoustic propagation
•  Ambient noise inversions for sediment geoacoustic properties
•  3-D acoustic propagation in range-dependent channels
•  Acoustic imaging using ambient noise (acoustic daylight)
•  Volcano acoustics
•  Bubble dynamics
•  Bubble acoustics (collective oscillations)
•  Sediment acoustics
•  Waves in porous media
•  Causality and the transient solutions of partial differential wave equations
•  High Doppler airborne sources for underwater acoustics research
•  Statistical properties of sand grain shapes
•  Packing statistics of irregular particles
•  Ambient noise profiling in the deep (11 km) ocean
•  Underwater detection and modeling of sonic booms
•  Acoustic pulse propagation in dispersive media
•  Very-high-energy neutrino detection in the ocean

•  Population genetics and genomics of marine organisms
•  Evolutionary biology and molecular ecology
•  Molecular adaptations to environmental stress

C

•  Plate tectonics, global plate reorganizations, Cenozoic motion between East and West Antarctica, structure of the Ross Sea, tectonics of the South Pacific
•  Geomagnetism, geomagnetic polarity reversal timescale, magnetization of the oceanic crust, paleo-intensity variations of the geomagnetic field.

•  Vortex dynamics
•  Turbulence
•  Vortex stability

•  I study the production, storage and transport of Subglacial water beneath the Antarctic Ice sheet. Not so long ago this environment was believed to be isolated, static, of interest only to those who believed in life on other icy planets. Now subglacial

•  Petrology and isotope geochemistry of MORB and OIB
•  Petrologic and tectonic evolution of the western Pacific
•  Mantle geodynamics

•  Links between global-regional climate varability and hydrologic fluctuations in North America
•  Impacts of climate varability and climate change on California
•  Large-scale exchange of heat and water between the ocean and the atmosphere

•  Large-scale oceanic circulation and observations with lagrangian drifters
•  Development of oceanographic instruments
•  Mixed Layer dynamics
•  Vortex dynamics

•  Southern Ocean circulation
•  Mode water formation
•  Air-sea heat and freshwater fluxes
•  Eddy dynamics and parameterization
•  Rossby-wave basin-wide patterns and stability
•  Tides and seiches in shallow seas

•  Models of the oceanic general circulation
•  Convection in geophysical fluids
•  Models of climate dynamics

•  Development of seafloor geodetic techniques using GPS and precision acoustics
•  Seafloor crustal deformation at oceanic spreading centers and subduction thrust faults
•  GPS meteorology in ocean environments

•  Paleoceanography/paleoclimatology
•  Isotope tracers of climate change
•  Deep sea sediment record of biogeochemical cycling

•  Long-term change in pelagic zooplankton and fish, including climate-biota interactions
•  Role of zooplankton in the marine nitrogen cycle
•  Effects of weather and air-sea interactions on plankton and fishes
•  Ecology of marine zooplankton and fish
•  The biological pump, including the role of particles and plankton
•  Ocean acidification
•  Instrument development

•  The ocean insect Halobates
•  Marine insects in general
•  Biodiversity of aquatic insects in Southeast Asia

•  Southern Ocean
•  Wind-driven circulation
•  Eastern boundary currents
•  Acoustic Doppler techniques for direct measurement of velocity

•  Paleomagnetism and geomagnetism
•  Recent and long term secular variation and reversals of the geomagnetic field
•  Inverse problems
•  Applications of statistical techniques in geophysics
•  Electrical conductivity of the mantle
•  Paleo and rock magnetic databases

•  Electrical conductivity of crust and mantle
•  Seafloor instrumentation
•  Geophysical data analysis and inversion

•  Physical volcanology
•  Volcanic evolution of large, ignimbrite-producing calderas
•  Petrogenesis of intermediate to silicic magmas
•  Petrogenesis and geochemistry of continental, volcanic-arc systems
•  Geoscience education/pedagogy; addressing student misconceptions in geoscience classes;

•  Large-scale ocean circulation (observations and modeling)
•  Coastal and Equatorial circulation (observations and modeling)
•  Data analysis, inverse methods and data assimilation
•  Ocean acoustic remote sensing

•  Roughness of sea surface
•  Growth of wind waves
•  Thermal microstructure in the ocean
•  Generation of internal waves
•  Electrical conductivity of the ocean lithosphere
•  Electric fields generated by oceanic motions
•  Marine instrumentation

•  Tectonics and geological history of NE Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia

•  Large scale physical oceanographic and meteorological monitoring
•  Instrumentation for merchant ships
•  Air, sea, cloud interaction

D

•  Coupling between seismic fields on land and offshore underwater acoustic fields, including those created by land vehicle activity and nuclear tests.
•  Geophysical inversions with sources of opportunity.
•  Properties of naturally occurring sounds in the ocean, including surf zone activity.
•  Underwater vocalizations by marine mammals.
•  Acoustic particle velocity and other measurable physical phenomena associated with underwater acoustic fields.
•  Matched field processing.
•  Infrasonic air acoustics.
•  Interference patterns due to waveguide propagation.

•  Seismic velocity structure of the mantle
•  Topography of mantle discontinuities
•  Time series analysis
•  Sensor calibration and performance

•  Lagrangian observation of ocean currents
•  Ocean instrumentation and autonomous vehicles
•  Ocean's role in climate
•  Coastal dynamics and climate impacts on coastal ecosystems

•  My research interest is in the ecology of mesopelagic fish that inhabit the deep scattering layer. I am currently using acoustics to investigate bouyancy regulation and biomass distribution of these small fish. Information on the distribution of biomass

•  Isotope geochemistry
•  Igneous and metamorphic petrology and volcanology
•  Mantle dynamics
•  Ore Genesis
•  Planetary differentiation processes
•  Solar System formation and evolution
•  Cosmochemistry

•  Benthic ecology
•  Marine conservation and policy
•  Evolution and natural history
•  General ecology

•  The propagation and scattering of underwater sound
•  Bubble acoustics
•  Energy dissipation and air entrainment by breaking gravity waves
•  Oceanic ambient noise
•  Bioluminescence from Dinoflagellates

•  Food web dynamics
•  Population dynamics
•  Meso- and microplankton trophic interactions
•  Molecular tools for prey detection
•  Inverse modeling
•  Stable isotope applications

•  Geophysical inverse problems
•  Numerical modeling methods for infrasound propagation
•  Applications of infrasound and hydroacoustics to Nuclear Monitoring

•  -Biochemical characterization of light producing reaction and identification of novel light producing compounds
•  -Structural coloration and hyperspectral imaging
•  -Biology of light production in invertebrates (bioluminescence and fluorescence)
•  -Environmental health assessment, development of sub-lethal bioassays
•  -Coastal management and marine pollution
•  -Marine ecotoxicology

•  Bioacoustical oceanography
•  Broadbandwidth target strength estimation and taxa identification
•  Development of multi-instrumented remote monitoring systems

•  Hydroclimatology of western North America
•  Medium- to long-range hydrologic forecasting
•  Land-air interactions

•  Ocean acidification
•  Quality control of oceanic carbon dioxide measurements
•  Biogeochemistry of the upper ocean
•  Marine inorganic chemistry
•  Thermodynamics of electrolyte solutions at high temperatures and pressures
•  Analytical chemistry of carbon dioxide in seawater

•  Marine meteorology
•  Coastal meteorology
•  Air-sea interaction

•  Seismology, especially seismic structure of the seafloor
•  Scholte waves
•  Seafloor instrument development, especially of Ocean-Bottom Seismometers (OBSs) and seismic sources
•  Current: Seismic noise and fluid flow associated with tremor and slip

•  Lithospheric deformation
•  Sea-level fluctuations
•  Sedimentation and Stratigraphy

•  Changes in past ocean circulation and ventilation
•  Sources and cycling of marine dissolved and particulate carbon using AMS

•  Ocean acoustic tomography
•  Climate monitoring via ocean acoustics

E

•  Climate dynamics
•  Sea ice
•  Paleoclimate
•  Large-scale circulation of the ocean and atmosphere

•  Fisheries ecology and management; Life history, behavior, ecology, and evolution of marine fishes; Fish spawning aggregations; Marine fish population dynamics.

•  Aerosol variability and radiative forcing
•  Land-ocean-atmosphere coupling
•  Climate variability of the tropics and tropical cyclones
•  Cloud feedbacks
•  Remote sensing

F

•  High precision satellite positioning and its applications in geophysics
•  Determinations and interpretations of global gravity field

•  Surfzone and nearshore physical oceanograpy

•  Physiology of hydrothermal vent community animals
•  Interactions between invertebrates and chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts
•  Molecular approaches to study the metabolism of bacterial symbionts

•  Chemistry of marine plants, microorganisms and invertebrate animals.
•  Utilization of marine-derived compounds for the treatment of various human diseases, in particular cancer and infectious diseases.

•  Crustal deformation
•  Space geodesy (InSAR/GPS)
•  Earthquake physics
•  Volcanology

•  Electromagnetic exploration of the oceanic lithospheric and mantle
•  Electromagnetic studies of large-scale oceanic motions, ocean, and earth tides

•  Role of aerosols on climate.
•  Sea salt, its transport and radiative forcing.
•  Light scattering by non-spherical particles.
•  Tropical cyclones and their interaction with ocean.

•  Regional shore processes
•  Beach erosion
•  Waves, climate, tides and sea level
•  Coastal development impacts
•  Tidal boundaries and mean-high-tide-lines

•  Physical-biological coupling from microscale to mesoscale
•  Analytical and numerical models of coupled physical-biological systems
•  Phytoplankton production at fronts, internal waves, and in turbulence
•  Red tides and harmful algal blooms

•  Glaciology of ice shelves and ice streams
•  Antarctic ice sheet mass balance
•  Satellite radar and laser altimetry

•  Turbulent phenomena in fluids and plasmas
•  Global change
•  Sustainability

•  Radiation transfer theory; Satellite remote sensing, Inverse problems related to light scattering; Air-sea interactions; Ocean color; Carbon cycle; Climate change

G

•  Microbial Genome Annotation; Comparison of whole genomes in closely related organisms and identification of laterally transferred genes using comparative operon structure for gene function and assignment
•  Alternative Splicing in Eukaryotic Genes in humans, mice and rats. Impact on protein structure, emphasis on transcription factors. Impact in cancer related genes and genes expressed in embryonic development
•  Regulation of RNA; Comparative identification of microRNA genes, prediction of mRNA targets of microRNA genes, prediction of pre-mRNA targets of RNA binding proteins, reconstruction of regulatory networks for RNA expression

•  Processes of remanence acquisition in igneous rocks and the origin of associated magnetic anomalies
•  Application of paleomagnetic/anomaly data to crustal accretionary processes
•  Quantitative analysis of silicate and magnetic fabrics in cumulate rocks
•  Studies of past geomagnetic field variations, particularly intensity fluctuations

•  Hydrology
•  Hydroclimatology
•  Hydrometeorology
•  Water Resources Planning and Management

•  Climate dynamics
•  Meteorology and hydroclimate
•  Climate and weather extremes
•  Climate - society interactions

•  Inverse problems in ocean acoustics, seismology, and electromagnetics
•  Sequential filtering (particle filters)
•  noise and signal processing in seismology and ocean acoustics.
•  Seismic imaging with noise.
•  Origin of Microseisms.
•  Tropospheric electromagnetic propagation and environmental parameter inversions.
•  Matched-field processing and full-field inversions for water column and seafloor geoacoustic parameters.

•  Innate Immunity
•  Genomics
•  Drug Discovery
•  Zebrafish

•  Biosynthesis of Marine Natural Products
•  Biofuel Production by Cultured Marine Microalgae
•  Anticancer, Antiinflammatory, Tropical Disease Drug Discovery
•  Marine Natural Products Drug Discovery
•  Molecular Genetics of Cyanobacterial Natural Products Biosynthesis
•  Molecular Evolution of Natural Product Pathways in Marine Cyanobacteria
•  Elicitation of Natural Products Biosynthesis
•  Cyanobacterial Phylogenetics

•  Development of fossil turbulence theory.
•  Analysis of towed microstructure data.
•  Fluid dynamics of hot/cold/fresh water discharges into the coastal ocean.
•  Studies of mixed layer development and oceanic diffusive phenomena by towed small-scale sensors.
•  Theory of turbulent mixing.
•  Measurement of fluxes of heat, momentum, and moisture over the open ocean from FLIP and aircraft.
•  Theory and laboratory measurements of turbulent properties.
•  Laboratory studies of stratified turbulence.
•  Theoretical and experimental study of beamed zombie turbulence maser action mixing chimney mechanism of vertical transport of information and hydrophysical fields in the ocean and in astrophysical systems.
•  Big bang turbulence theory. Hydrogravitational dynamics. New cosmology.

•  Chemistry of methane seeps
•  Geochemistry of interstitial waters in marine sediments

•  Normal mode theory
•  Inverse problems
•  Earthquake source mechanisms
•  Deep aspherical structure
•  Anelasticity in the earth
•  Low-frequency networks
•  Seismic ray imaging

•  Satellite oceanography
•  Southern Ocean dynamics, eddy mixing, air-sea interaction
•  Ocean response to bathymetry

•  The Argo program
•  Oceanic general circulation
•  Heat transport variability
•  Altimetry

•  Physiological ecology of phytoplankton
•  Ecology of the tropical and subtropical open ocean
•  Isotopic tracers in marine systems

•  Ocean Modeling and Data Assimilation, Observational oceanography

•  Physical and analytical chemistry of inorganic carbon in seawater
•  Time series measurements of total dissolved inorganic carbon in seawater
•  High precision gas analyses and manometry
•  Thermodynamics of the carbonic acid system in seawater

•  Pollution transport and dilution in the surf zone
•  Beach and cliff erosion
•  Regional wave networks

H

•  Structure, function and dynamics of the plasma membrane during embryonic development.
•  Live cell and and super resolution imaging of embryos.
•  ABC transporters in development and environmental toxicology.
•  Emerging marine pollutants and methods for predicting pollutant persistence.

•  Rifting of continental lithosphere
•  Ridge Crest Processes
•  Oceanic Crustal structure
•  Three-D tomographic study of the Clipperton Transform
•  Modeling and evolution of Moho at oceanic ridges
•  Reflection seismic processing

•  Systematics & evolution of fishes
•  Biogeography
•  Evolution of behavior
•  Marine conservation
•  Behavioral ecology of fishes

•  Evolution of convergent plate margins of western Pacific, and origin of back-arc basins such as Parece Vela Basin, Lau Basin, and Mariana Trough
•  Origin and emplacement of ophiolites on convergent plate margins
•  Crustal evolution, western Pacific Basin, and western North America

•  Research: Antarctic fish antifreeze proteins and nucleation
•  Administrative: strategic research planning, partnerships, and safety issues, especially in field and laboratory work

•  Analysis of acoustic signals from large-scale atmospheric phenomena
•  Reduction of noise due to atmospheric turbulence
•  Use of seismic and acoustic energy for nuclear test ban verification
•  Structure of Earth's crust and mantle

•  Glacial Seismicity
•  Glacial Dynamics
•  Earth Structure
•  Continental Dynamics

•  Bubble nucleation in gas supersaturated liquids
•  Gas bubble disease in animals
•  Respiratory and cardiovascular functions in fishes

•  Solution of Laplace's tidal equations for deep-sea tides including solid Earth loading
•  Mean circulation of the Adriatic Sea
•  Continental-shelf circulation
•  Two-dimensional and quasi-geostrophic turbulence
•  Internal waves and fine structure
•  Tides and ocean normal modes
•  Large-scale ocean circulation

•  High resolution geological repositories of the variability of coastal circulation along the western shores of the Americas
•  High resolution studies of Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate
•  Interaction and evolution of eastern boundary currents with global climate
•  Sensitivity of calcitic and opaline phyto and zooplancton to ocean circulation changes

•  Marine mammal population census using acoustics
•  Impact of anthropogenic sound on marine mammals
•  Field studies in: southern California, Gulf of California, Hawaii, offshore Washington, Bering Sea, Arctic, Southern Ocean, Pacific Islands, Gulf of Mexico

•  Diatom silicon metabolism and silica cell wall synthesis
•  Diatom nanotechnology
•  High resolution imaging
•  Diatom genomics/transcriptomics and transgenics
•  Microalgal lipid metabolism for biofuels production
•  Algal biofuels

•  Noble gas geochemistry of mantle-derived rocks and fluids
•  Volatile mass balance of subduction zones
•  Stable isotope-noble gas isotope and relative abundance relationships in oceanic basalts
•  Hydrogeological applications of noble gases

•  Adaptive digital signal processing and time series analysis with applications to adaptive array processing
•  Time-evolving spatial distribution and statistical characterization of ambient ocean noise
•  Propagation of acoustic energy through the water column and its interaction with the surface and bottom
•  Matched-field processing and full-field inversions for water column and seafloor geoacoustic parameters
•  Acoustic communications
•  Tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation and environmental parameter inversions
•  Wireless sensor networks
•  Software defined radio

•  Chordate evolutionary relationships
•  Developmental genetics of amphioxus
•  Evolution and development

•  Developmental evolution (using comparative molecular genetics to establish body part homologies between distantly related animals), with attention to the origin of the vertebrates from the invertebrates

•  Biological and biochemical studies in polar sea
•  Phytoplankton photoadaptation
•   Effects of solar ultraviolet radiation on phytoplankton
•  Macro- and micro-element nutrition

•  Marine Microbial Natural Products
•  Natural Product Target Identification
•  Natural Product Total Synthesis and Semisynthesis

I

•  Air-sea interactions
•  Climate modeling
•  Cloud-radiation interactions

•  Upper bound theory
•  Turbulence and stability

•  Coastal processes: transport of sediment by winds, waves, and currents and application to coastal morphology
•  Wave climate and coastal evolution
•  Water quality; sediment and sorbed contaminents in runoff
•  Paleocoastlines and marine archaeology

J

•  Paleobiology and macroevolution
•  Speciation and extinction
•  Ecology and paleoecology of coral reefs
•  Marine conservation
•  Bryozoans and mollusks

•  Three-dimensional acoustic and optical imaging of phytoplankton and zooplankton
•  Development of in situ remote sensing devices for ocean exploration

•  Microbial distributions and interactions with marine plants and invertebrates
•  Sequence-based approaches to the discovery of natural products from marine microbes.
•  Comparative genomics.
•  Microbial chemical ecology.
•  The distributions, biogeography, and molecular evolution of marine bacteria.

•  Small-scale dynamics in the coastal and open ocean:
•  - Internal tide scattering from midocean topography
•  - Internal tide generation and propagation
•  - Fronts
•  - Transition layer

K

•  Satellite oceanography
•  Remote sensing and optics of phytoplankton
•  Red tides and harmful algal blooms

•  Physics approach to sensory biology
•  Electric and magnetic field detection
•  Hydrodynamic and acoustic field detection
•  Mathematical-physical principles of sensory systems
•  Behavioral, electrophysiological, and biophysical experiments
•  Animal-inspired detection systems for autonomous robotic devices

•  The role of fluids in the transport of heat and solutes and into the ocean, atmosphere, and mantle in subduction zones
•  Gas hydrates and global change
•  Chemical paleoceanography
•  Sedimentary geochemistry and diagenesis: mineralogical, chemical, and isotopic studies of recent and older sediments
•  Processes responsible for the formation of submarine hydrothermal deposits
•  The origin of present day and ancient phosphorites, dolomites, and cherts

•  Measurements of variations in atmospheric oxygen
•  Recent perturbations to the global carbon cycle
•  Air-sea gas exchange
•  Detection of ocean heat storage and transport using atmospheric gases
•  Paleoclimate theory

•  Global environmental science
•  Science Policy
•  Astrophysics
•  Space plasma physics
•  Earth Observations

•  Reflection Seismology
•  Mid-ocean ridge processes
•  Immersive visualization
•  Rifted margins
•  Walker Lane tectonics
•  Paleoseismology

•  Marine magnetotelluric and controlled-source EM exploration
•  Electromagnetic modeling with finite elements
•  Electromagnetic inversion
•  Mid-ocean ridges
•  Subduction zones
•  Hydrocarbon exploration
•  Mantle dynamics
•  Marine geophysical instrumentation design

•  Crustal Seismology
•  Earthquake Source Physics
•  Mainshock/Aftershock Studies
•  Scientific Visualization Techniques

•  Marine biodiversity
•  Ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics of coral reef organisms
•  Speciation
•  Marine conservation

•  Equatorial ocean circulation and dynamics
•  Acoustic remote sensing of ocean circulation

•  Diving behavior in marine vertebrates, especially emperor penguins.
•  Population trends and conservation of marine reptiles, birds, and mammals.

•  40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of Intra-plate Volcanism
•  Forward Modeling of the Geochemical Diffentiation of the Earth
•  Studying the Paradigm between Fixed and Moving hotspots
•  Cyberinfrastructure Development for Earth Science Research

•  Ecosystem-based fishery management
•  Impacts of climate variability and change
•  Fisheries oceanography: ecology of krill, mesopelagic and small pelagic fishes
•  Acoustics and ocean observation systems

•  Global acoustic propagation
•  Noise and signal processing
•  Inversion and time reversal acoustics
•  Seismic imaging with noise

L

•  Fish cardiovascular physiology
•  Chronic heart failure in mammals
•  Fish locomotion and energetics

•  Food-web interactions involving micro- and mesozooplankton
•  Population and community ecology of plankton
•  Physical-biological coupling

•  Phytoplankton (diatoms)
•  Transport to the seafloor
•  Burial in the sediment
•  Time-series
•  Laminated sediments

•  Observational physical oceanography

•  evolution and seismic imaging of the Hawaiian mantle plume, volcanic chain and swell
•  seismic anisotropy and mantle dynamics, on land and in the oceans
•  regional and global seismology
•  analysis methods for seismic surface waves and free oscillations
•  reference earth models
•  seismic noise and the development and propagation of storms
•  natural disasters and global change

•  Using interdisciplinary approaches involving biology, chemistry, and physics to investigate how marine organisms interact with their ocean environment.
•  Ecology of bioluminescence in the ocean
•  Physiological ecology of marine organisms
•  Ecotoxicology of marine organisms
•  Role of bioluminescent and fluorescent molecules

•  Ecology and oceanography of coastal systems
•  Longterm environmental and climate variability
•  Internal waves, nutrient dynamics, and larval transport
•  Marine conservation ecology

•  Invertebrate and fish life histories, dispersal, demography, and evolution
•  Community ecology of soft-bottom assemblages in deep-sea and intertidal habitats
•  Animal-sediment interactions
•  Ecology of methane seeps, oxygen minimum zones
•  Biodiversity of sediment ecosystems
•  Connectivity in coastal ecosystems

•  Fluid mechanics.
•  Asymptotic methods.
•  Applied and industrial mathematics.

•  Structural geomorphology of plate boundary zones
•  Tectonic history of the Pacific basin
•  Geology of seamounts and guyots

•  Satellite remote sensing of Earth's polar regions
•  Application of global climate model simulation to the polar regions
•  New instrumentation and techniques for space-based remote sensing
•  Stellar astrophysics related to solar variability and climate

•  Ocean Sensing, physical biological interactions, nutrient fluxes in coastal physical flows, high frequency coastal physical dynamics

•  Origin and evolution of the solar system
•  Isotope Geo- and Cosmochemistry
•  Early solar system timescales using extinct radionuclides
•  Isotope tracer studies on terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials
•  Nucleosynthesis

M

•  Internal waves
•  Turbulence and mixing
•  Coastal dynamics

•  Chemical sensor development
•  Aqueous carbon dioxide chemistry
•  Marine chemistry & biogeochemistry

•  The study the fine structure of the earth and the 3-D structure of the mantle and core using body waves, surface waves, and free oscillations
•  Development of reference Earth models and the integration of mineral physics, geodynamics, and geochemistry into Earth models

•  Volcano acoustics, volcano seismology.
•  Atmospheric infrasound sources and propagation.
•  Earthquake location.

•  Large scale patterns in space and time and the California El Niño
•  Diversity maintenance
•  Biogeography
•  Time-series in coastal California

•  Large-scale general circulation numerical modeling of the ocean and sea-ice.
•  Climate change and variability in the ocean/sea-ice system
•  Tropical ocean dynamics

•  Fluid Mechanics
•  Air-sea interaction
•  Nonlinear surface and internal waves
•  Upper ocean turbulence and mixing
•  Optical, acoustic and microwave remote sensing

•  Ocean modeling, data assimilation, and predictability
•  Coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling and predictability
•  California Current System dynamics and ecosystem response
•  Pacific Ocean decadal variability and ecosystem response
•  Long-period tides and barotropic normal modes

•  Digital archiving and preservation, resulting in the SIOExplorer Digital Library for SIO expeditions since 1950 (http://SIOExplorer.ucsd.edu), and the IODP Site Survey Data Bank for drilling projects (http://ssdb.iodp.org)
•  Marine geophysics
•  Seafloor mapping
•  Education and outreach

•  Propagation and attenuation of seismic waves
•  Nuclear monitoring by geoohysical means
•  Applications of space geodesy to the study of plate motions and deformation
•  Mass balance of polar ice sheets
•  Intermediate-term earthquake prediction
•  Precise airborne and spaceborne laser altimetry and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)
•  Numerical modeling of Earthquakes and their effects in a grid framework

•  Phytoplankton photosynthetic physiology and ecology
•  Ocean optics and satellite remote sensing of phytoplankton biomass and primary production
•  Effects of UV-B on marine microorganisms
•  Commercialization of algae biofuels

•  Glacier mass balance
•  Amtarctic ice shelves
•  Laser altimetry

•  Atmospheric Chemistry
•  Physical Chemistry (Gas Phase Chemical Kinetics; Photochemistry; Heterogeneous Chemistry)
•  Urban, Regional and Global Air Pollution
•  Climate Change: Science and Policy Issues

•  Apoptosis
•  Cell Cycle Regulation
•  Marine Natural Products
•  Medicinal Chemistry
•  NMR
•  Organic Synthesis

•  Marine Microbial Biosynthesis and Bioengineering
•  Marine Microbial Genomes
•  Marine Microbial Natural Product Discovery

•  Marine mammal population genetics and phylogeography
•  Genomics and genetics technologies for conservation biology
•  Conservation genetics

•  AGAGE (Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment)
•  Greenhouse gases
•  Halogenated trace gases
•  Ozone depleting compounds
•  Trace gas measurements (especially GC-FID/ECD/MSD)
•  Global warming
•  Top-down (measurement based) verification of bottom-up emission estimates
•  Atmospheric chemistry
•  Wildfire emissions
•  Long-range transport of pollutants

•  Global acoustics
•  Greenhouse warming
•  Tides
•  Air-sea boundary

N

•  Observational physical oceanography and multidisciplinary applications
•  Physical processes affecting biogeochemistry, fishery, and acoustics in the ocean
•  Ocean observing/monitoring technologies and integration

•  Systematics of Cirripedia
•  Origin and evolution of crustaceans
•  Biogeography
•  Past and present oceanic islands.

•  Cloud feedbacks and global warming
•  Coupled atmosphere-ocean variability
•  Effects of climate change on California
•  Boundary-layer cloud processes
•  Aerosol-cloud interactions
•  Solar dimming and brightening

•  Paleoceanography of Paleogene and Cretaceous warm climates
•  Role of plankton evolution in biogeochemical cycles
•  Origins of deep-sea unconformities
•  Oceanographic control on plankton distributions
•  Structure and dynamics of large-scale diversification in the history of life

O

•  Computational Geosciences
•  Explosive Volcanic Eruptions
•  Computational Fluid Dynamics
•  Fluid-Structure Interactions

•  Population ecology of marine zooplankton, especially planktonic copepods
•  Mortality estimation and other demographic techniques
•  Zooplankton prey-predator interactions
•  Climate change effects on California Current pelagic food webs
•  California Current Ecosystem LTER site
•  Autonomous measurement methods (Spray ocean gliders, moorings)

•  Acoustic studies of cetacean distribution and abundance
•  Developing statistical models for the application of acoustic monitoring data to estimating population abundance and seasonal distribution
•  Mitigating the potential impact of anthropogenic

•  Internal structure of ocean spreading centers; genesis of the oceanic lithosphere
•  Structure of the elastic earth using seismology, synthetic seismograms, and geophysical inverse theory
•  Ocean seismo-acoustics including rough seafloor scattering, acoustic-elastic interactions, and the use of small arrays
•  Cyberinfrastructure applications in geophysics including sensor networking, visualization, cloud computing and workflows
•  Nuclear test-ban verification methods.

•  History of Science
•  Science Policy
•  Women in Science

P

•  Marine genomics and metagenomics
•  Phytoplankton diversity and evolution
•  Adaptations of phytoplankton to their physical and chemical environments, especially nutrient limitation and metal toxicity
•  Algal biofuels

•  Adsorption of metals by microbes and polysaccharides
•  Oxidation and reduction of metals by microbes
•  Biology of cyanobacteria
•  Manganophores

•  Geophysical inverse theory
•  Geomagnetism
•  Spectral methods for potential theory
•  Gravity interpretation
•  Electromagnetic sounding

•  Coastal shelf ecology
•  Interactions of physical and biological processes on coastal shelf ecosystems
•  Anthropogenic disturbance of coastal shelf ecosystems
•  Marine protected areas

•  Science communication
•  Informal Science Education
•  Earth and Ocean Sciences Education
•  Use of Technology in Education
•  Ocean Observatories Education and Public Engagement
•  Scientist's Participation in Outreach
•  Public science literacy

•  Population dynamics
•  Ecology and evolution of marine mammals

•  The energy cascade in the ocean
•  The space-time geography of ocean mixing
•  Oceanic internal waves, wave generation and wave breaking
•  Arctic oceanography
•  Tropical oceanography
•  Ocean observation techniques, instrumentation, sensors
•  Zooplankton interaction with the physical environment

•  Contemporary and recent past global carbon cycle
•  Analysis and modeling of observed variations of atmospheric CO2 and 13C/12C
•  Regional and global drivers of carbon fluxes between the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere

•  Diving physiology and behavior

•  Health effects of air pollution
•  Air-sea exchange
•  Air pollution in developing countries
•  Climate change
•  Heterogeneous chemistry
•  Aerosol-cloud interactions
•  On-line analysis of aerosol mixing state
•  Radiative forcing of aerosols
•  Development of analytical methods for particle analysis

R

•  Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABC)
•  Air-sea interactions
•  Climate Change Mitigation
•  Clouds, aerosols, greenhouse gases, and climate
•  Earth radiation budget measurements
•  Lightweight Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles as Research Platforms

•  Ecology, paleoecology, and geochemistry of deep-sea environments
•  Biogeochemistry of cold methane seeps
•  Responses of microfauna to changes in productivity and dissolved oxygen

•  General circulation of world oceans and distribution of water characteristics including temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, and isotopes
•  Zooplankton
•  California Current
•  Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans
•  Geostrophic shear and isopycnal extensions

•  Ocean optics and biogeochemistry
•  Phytoplankton ecology
•  Satellite remote-sensing of ocean color

•  Aerosol chemistry and physics
•  Cloud condensation nuclei (CCN)
•  Aerosol-clouds-radiometric interactions and climate
•  Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles in atmospheric sciences
•  Miniaturized instrumentation

•  Role of the oceans in climate and climate variability
•  General circulation of the oceans
•  The California Current System

•  Fishes of the eastern tropical Pacific
•  Biochemical genetics of fishes
•  Bathypelagic fish fauna of the North Pacific
•  Functional morphology of fishes

•  Animal phylogeny, biodiversity and taxonomy, particularly annelids and echinoderms
•  Evolution of life history strategies in marine animals
•  Evolution of whalefall, hydrothermal vent and methane seep fauna
•  Seadragon (Syngnathidae) phylogeny and phylogeography

•  Physical and biological dynamics of the upper ocean
•  Fronts and eddies
•  Air-sea interaction

•  Aerosol chemistry and physics
•  Aerosol-cloud interactions
•  Air-sea exchange
•  Organic aerosols
•  Atmospheric nanoparticles

S

•  Theory of the ocean's general circulation
•  Geophysical fluid dynamics

•  Conservation biology
•  Mathematical ecology
•  Coral reef ecology

•  Geodynamics
•  Satellite Remote Sensing and Geodesy
•  Charting the Remote Ocean Basins

•  Magnetobiostratigraphic correlation; radiolarian taxonomy and evolution
•  Reassessment of paleogene radiolarian datum events
•  Managing the DSDP/ODP Micropaleontological Reference Collection

•  Tectonic History of the Southwest Indian Ridge with emphasis on the Andrew Bain Mega-transform Fault.
•  Thermal models of old ocean floor
•  History of science
•  Heat flow and subsidence of the continental margins of the Gulf of California

•  Quantitative ecology, stable isotope analysis, stock assessment, marine ecology, conservation biology, coral reef ecology, fisheries management

•  Thermohaline circulation (Atlantic MOC, Mediterranean)
•  Water mass formation and effects
•  Boundary current observations
•  Coastal circulation and processes
•  Ocean-climate interaction, CO2 uptake, acidification
•  Physical-biogeochemical and ecosystem interactions
•  Multi-disciplinary timeseries observations
•  Global and coastal ocean observing systems
•  Ocean observing techniques

•  Quantification of abrupt temperature changes using measurements of nitrogen and argon isotopes in ice cores
•  Mechanisms of millennial-scale climate oscillations and climate bifurcations
•  Pleistocene global carbon cycle variations deduced from oxygen and noble gas measurements in ice cores
•  Reconstructing changes in atmospheric noble gas composition over the past million years from air trapped in glacial ice
•  Radiocarbon of methane in late glacial-age ice as a test of the sedimentary methane clathrate degassing hypothesis.
•  Isotopic fractionation of air in polar firn (snow) due to gravitational settling and thermal diffusion, with implications for gas age-ice age differences and leads and lags of climate versus greenhouse gases in ice core records

•  Ocean technology: robotic work systems, composite materials, wave measurement instrumentation
•  Wave mechanics: wave generation, wave groups, extreme wave statistics
•  Wave climatology: seasonal, spatial and long-term variability in North Pacific Basin, extreme storm events
•  Nearshore processes: sediment transport mechanisms, cross-shore transport, shoreline erosion
•  Ocean-based renewable energy technology, undersea compressed air energy storage

•  Structure of Earth's mantle and core
•  Earthquake properties
•  Seismicity of southern California
•  Seismic processing methods

•  Ocean instrumentation
•  Small scale mixing
•  Internal waves

•  Microalgal biotechnology

•  Extinct radionuclides
•  Cosmochronology and processes in the early solar system
•  Isotope studies of terrestrial impact structures and deposits

•  Coral Reef Ecology
•  Conservation Biology
•  Invasion Biology
•  Phycology
•  Human Impacts on Marine Communities
•  Ocean Acidification

•  Kinematics and dynamics of rip currents
•  Generation of Langmuir circulation (mixed layer dynamics)
•  Interactions between waves, currents, and bottom topography
•  Mutual influences between wind stress and directional surface wave characteristics

•  Geophysical fluid dynamics
•  Thermal convection
•  Computational methods
•  Predictability
•  Atmospheric modeling
•  Numerical weather prediction
•  Radiative transfer
•  Cloud physics
•  Climate

•  Sonar array processing
•  Time-reversal acoustics
•  Underwater acoustic communications

•  Interocean exchange of the Indonesian Throughflow and its relationship to climate.
•  Southern Ocean climate and dynamics.
•  Large-scale general circulation of mass and heat.
•  Long-term monitoring of the heat and transport in the upper ocean.

•  Ocean remote sensing
•  Data assimilation
•  Ocean modeling

•  Geochemical transfer between ocean-crust, biosphere, seawater, and mantle
•  Geochemical Earth Reference Models
•  Volcanology, geochemistry, microbiology and geophysics of seamounts and the oceanic crust
•  Earth Science Education and Outreach

•  Computational geodynamics
•  Dynamics of the lithosphere
•  Achieving a fully dynamical theory for plate tectonics
•  Global tectonics and the history plate motions
•  Mantle dynamics
•  Subduction processes
•  Tectonic evolution of western North America
•  Planetary geophysics: thermal and tectonic evolution of icy and terrestrial planets and moons
•  Rotational stability of planets
•  Core-mantle boundary interactions
•  Archean geodynamics
•  Formation and dispersal of supercontinents
•  Application of high-performance computing and advanced visualization systems to geodynamics
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•  Air-sea gas exchange via bubble formation
•  High pressure gas sensing
•  Polar biology, Reef biology
•  Sensor technology and development
•  Optical image processsing

•  Ocean optics
•  Radiative transfer in the ocean
•  Particle optics
•  Ocean optical properties
•  Light fields within and leaving the ocean
•  Optics of air-sea interface
•  Optical remote sensing of marine environments
•  Optical-biological interactions in the ocean
•  Ocean carbon stocks and dynamics
•  Coastal oceanography
•  Monitoring and observational work in the marine environment
•  Optical methods in oceanography
•  Development of optical instrumentation

•  Developing derivatives markets and by-catch avoidance incentives for fisheries
•  Systemic risk in the financial sector
•  Market mechanisms for marine conservation
•  Complexity theory
•  Nonlinear dynamics
•  Landscape ecology
•  Food-web structure
•  Species abundance patterns
•  Conservation biology/biological control
•  Neuroscience and behavior
•  Cardiology
•  Empirical climate modeling
•  Fisheries forecasting
•  Quantitative finance

•  Arctic physical oceanography
•  Global thermohaline circulation
•  Ocean measurement and interpretation

•  Climate variability and change; response of upper trophic-level predators
•  Predator-prey relationships
•  Seabirds and marine mammals as biological indicators and sampling devices

T

•  General circulation
•  Climate change in the oceans
•  Hydrography and water masses

•  The behavior of the ancient geomagnetic field: How long has the geomagnetic field been essentially dipolar? Why does the magnetic field reverse? How strong can the magnetic field get? How fast can it change?
•  Statistical analysis of paleomagnetic data.
•  Applications of paleomagnetic data to geological problems such as: The use of paleomagnetic data for geochronological control. The use of paleointensity variations as an additional magnetostratigraphic tool. The use of rock magnetic tools for recognizin
•  Rock fabrics: The use of paleomagnetic data in structural and tectonic problems

•  Mass Spectrometry of Biomolecules, Proteomics and Peptidomics
•  Polypeptides with unusual post-translational modifications from marine invertebrates, structure, function, and application
•  Biochemical mediators of innate immunity in invertebrates: Cytotoxicity and antimicrobial activity
•  Marine bioinorganic chemistry of metal binding proteins from marine invertebrates

•  Paleolimnology
•  Holocene high-resolution paleoenvironmental studies
•  Effecting teaching strategies for undergraduate interdisciplinary education in earth, environmental and marine sciences.

•  Coastal observing systems and technology development (HF radar, in-situ sensor systems, moorings, autonomous underwater vehicles)
•  Air-sea interaction processes; surface waves, wave breaking, and turbulence and in air-sea fluxes, boundary layers, hurricanes
•  Acoustical oceanography with emphasis on applications to nearshore, coastal, and upper ocean studies; sound propagation through bubbly flows
•  Naval hydrodynamics

•  -Diatom cell wall synthesis -Microscopy -Cytoskeleton -Diatom adhesion -Lipid accumulation

•  Marine mammal acoustics
•  Advanced acoustic signal processing
•  Geoacoustic imaging, inversion, and tomography

•  Physiology of aquatic organisms
•  pH, carbon dioxide and bicarbonate sensors
•  Intracellular signaling
•  Ion transport and acid/base regulation
•  Epithelial physiology

•  Physical processes associated with the structural evolution of convergent margins.
•  Seafloor instrument development.
•  Physical, hydrologic, and geochemical consequences of gas hydrate formation and destruction.
•  Physical, hydrologic, and chemical processes associated with cold seeps and mud volcanoes.
•  Physical, hydrologic, and chemical processes associated with active submarine fault zones

•  Bioluminescence
•  Aequorin
•  Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)
•  Energy Transfer
•  Calcium Ion

U

•  Active tectonics
•  Paleoseismology
•  Sedimentation and Stratigraphy
•  Lithospheric deformation

V

•  Fertilization in marine invertebrates
•  Molecular biology of gamete recognition proteins in marine invertebrates
•  Invertebrate immunity
•  Function of homologs of polycystin in sea urchins

•  Climate
•  Atmospheric radiative transfer
•  Solar system exploration
•  Astrophysics

•  Tsunamis, in the ocean and on the Moon
•  Explosion-generated waves and coastal interaction
•  Human endurance, heat production, and cold water physiology

•  Phytoplankton ecology with emphasis on community structure and temporal variability
•  Applied statistics and sampling design

•  Dynamics of marine ecosystems
•  Ocean circulation and biogeochemistry
•  Mathematical ecology

•  Phytoplankton Ecology and Physiology
•  Phytoplankton Photosynthetic Pigments
•  Antarctic Marine Ecosystems Structure and Function
•  Effect of Climate Variability on Lower Trophic Levels

•  Earthquake seismology
•  Real-time environmental sensor networks
•  Time-series analysis
•  Ocean Observatories

W

•  Reconstruction of paleoatmospheres from ice core records in Greenland and Antarctica back to > 500,000 years covering at least 5 glacial/interglacial cycles; main emphasis is to reconstruct atmospheric CO2 and d13CO2.
•  Global biogeochemical cycles of radiatively important atmospheric trace gases; biosphere-atmosphere interaction.
•  Stable isotopes in atmospheric CO2 (d13C and d18O) to arrive at improved global carbon cycle budgets (in collaboration with C. D. Keeling).
•  Stable isotopes of Cl and Br in aerosols to determine if Cl and Br radicals are produced in the troposphere.
•  Investigations on CO2, CH4, 85Kr and N2O in the stratosphere (and their isotopic species 13C and 18O in CO2, 13C, D and 14C and CH4, 15N and 18O in N2O) to determine the troposphere/stratosphere air exchange rate.
•  Process-oriented studies to determine the significance of 18O in atmospheric CO2.

•  Atmospheric infrasound
•  Seismic-acoustic coupling
•  Imaging and array processing methods
•  Seismic anisotropy
•  Tectonics and geodynamics

•  Acoustic propagation ocean
•  Noise and signal processing
•  Inversion and time reversal acoustics
•  Seismic imaging with noise
•  Helioseismology

•  Internal wave driven mixing
•  Coastal physical oceanography
•  Hydrodynamics of tidal inlets

•  Distributions of trace gases in the global and regional atmosphere and in the oceans, with emphasis on halocarbons, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and methane.
•  Geochemical tracers of circulation, mixing, chemical and biological processes in the atmosphere, world oceans and deep lakes.

•  Stable isotope tracers of carbon dioxide and water (including vapor)
•  High latitude carbon dioxide fluxes
•  Atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane measurements (Earth Networks)

•  Complex systems, self-organization, geophysical pattern formation, Arctic landscapes and permafrost.
•  Human-landscape interactions, urban geomorphology, theory of modeling, models for science, human consciousness/free will, environmental management, social and economic human behavior, resistance and the Mexico-US border.

•  Marine mammal acoustics
•  Near-surface geophysical imaging
•  Oceanographic instrumentation

•  My research is directed towards questions in evolution and ecology, and focuses on marine invertebrates. I have a deep interest in the phylogeny of molluscs, especially opisthobranchs, and the ways they have diversified with shell reduction.

•  Circulation in lagoons and estuaries
•  Descriptions of coastal circulation
•  Wind-forced coastal circulation
•  Mixing and dispersion

•  Geologic history of the Pacific, including stratigraphy, sedimentation, seamount chains and tectonics
•  Comparisons between oceanic pelagic sediments and their analogues in folded mountain belts
•  Plate stratigraphy and the subsidence of ocean crust, oceanic atolls, and continental margins
•  Origin of atolls and barrier reefs

•  Computational fluid dynamics, high-order methods
•  Internal waves & mixing, stability, transition to turbulence
•  Coastal ocean processes, dispersion
•  Parallel algorithms, large-scale scientific computation

•  Application of acoustic remote sensing techniques to studying large-scale ocean circulation and temperature structure

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Y

•  Deep-sea biology
•  High pressure molecular biophysics
•  Radiation biology

•  Coastal Processes
•  Natural Hazards
•  Quantitative Geomorphology

•  Internal gravity waves
•  Two-dimensional and geostrophic turbulence
•  Tracer dispersion in fluid flows
•  The general circulation of the ocean

Z

•  Global climate modeling
•  Convection and cloud parameterization
•  Atmosphere-ocean interaction
•  Convective transport of momentum

•  Microstructure of ocean surface, air-sea exchange
•  Boundary layer dynamics
•  Remote sensing

•  Large scale ocean circulation
•  Ocean-Climate interaction
•  Internal tide generation
•  Tidal energy dissipation

•  Electroanalytical chemistry of seawater
•  Trace metal speciations in seawater and metal-organism interactions
•  Water Quality Models
•  The seawater CO2 system

•  Development of marine gravity techniques
•  Optical fiber sensors for geophysical applications
•  Marine geodesy
•  Infrasound