Faculty

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A

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

•  Microbial genomics and metagenomics
•  Microbial oceanography / ecology / evolution / biogeography
•  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)

•  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

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

B

•  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

•  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

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

•  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 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.

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

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

•  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

•  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;

•  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

D

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

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

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

•  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

•  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

E

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

F

•  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

•  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

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

•  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

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

H

•  Cell biology of embryos
•  ABC transporters
•  Environmental toxicology

•  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

•  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

•  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

•  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

•  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

I

•  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

K

•  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

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

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

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

L

•  Utilization of natural nuclear processes to understand planetary physical and chemical processes and their rate constants
•  Cosmic ray-produced radioisotopes in diverse terrestrial environments, atmosphere, lakes, oceans, and sediments, and of nuclear tracks in moon, meteorites, and terrestrial samples
•  Development of quantitative methods for the study of process geomorphology including continental weathering and erosion processes, evolutionary history of diamonds, and phosphorus biodynamics in oceans using cosmogenic 32P, 33P, and 7Be radionuclides
•  Studies of nuclear reactions in the solar photosphere from examination of radionuclides in solar wind
•  Studies of past accumulation and ablation rates of polar ice using in situ produced cosmogenic 14C

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

•  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

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

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

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

•  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

•  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

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

N

•  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

•  Evolutionary neurobiology
•  Evolution of vertebrates
•  Changes in central nervous system characters that have occurred during vertebrate evolution, the functional significance of these changes, and the phylogenetic relationships that exist. CNS evolution

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)

•  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

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

•  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

•  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

•  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

•  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

•  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

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

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

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

•  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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•  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

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

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

V

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

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.

•  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.

•  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.

•  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

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

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

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