Faculty

Last Name Initial:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

• BACKUS, GEORGE - Professor Emeritus
•  Relativity
•  Core-mantle boundary phenomenon
•  Core fluid mechanics
•  Inversion of geomagnetic data
• BADA, JEFFREY - Professor
•  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
• BALLANCE, LISA - Adjunct Professor
•  Ecology of Seabirds and Cetaceans
•  Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Management of Protected Species
•  Species Diversity Patterns and Trends in Space and Time (Interannual to Regime Shift Scales)
• BARBEAU, KATHERINE - Associate Professor
•  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
• BARLOW, JAY - Adjunct Professor
•  Marine mammal population dynamics
•  Marine mammal survey methods
•  Conservation biology
•  Cetacean acoustics
•  Acoustic and fisheries impacts
• BARTLETT, DOUGLAS - Professor
•  Adaptations of deep-sea microbes to high pressure and low temperature
•  Marine microbial diversity
•  Collection of deep-sea samples
• BENSON, ANDREW - Professor Emeritus
•  Calcium regulation in spawning Pacific salmon
•  Agricultural applications of methanol effects on plant growth
•  Arsenic metabolism in marine organisms
• BERGER, WOLFGANG - Professor Emeritus
•  Cenozoic paleoceanography based on deep-sea sediments
•  Multidecadal climate fluctuations from marine varves and tree rings
•  Climate and ecosystem response
• BROWN, KEVIN - Professor
•  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.
• BUCKINGHAM, MICHAEL - Professor
•  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
• BURTON, RONALD - Professor
•  Population genetics of marine organisms
•  Evolutionary biology and molecular ecology
•  Molecular adaptations to environmental stress