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http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/faculty/armbrust/armbrust.html#interests
Virginia Armbrust is interested in the behavior and growth of phytoplankton populations in dynamic environments. Currently, there are five ongoing research projects in her lab: genetic and physiological diversity in field populations of the centric diatom (Ditylum brightwellii), sexual reproduction in the centric diatom (Thalassiosira weissflogii), photorespiration in diatoms, Response of bacteria to organic compounds excreted by diatoms, and genetic and physiological diversity with eukaryotic nanoplankton.
http://fish.washington.edu/AcademicSite/facultyprofiles/armstrong.html
David Armstrong is interested in predicting possible deleterious effects of development such as dredging, oil exploration, and materials disposal on crustacean populations. Specific topics of research interest include: population dynamics and production, spatial and temporal distribution, habitat requirements, reproductive cycles, feeding strategies, energetic requirements, and toxicant effects as gauged by some of these factors on crabs and shrimp. His lab also studies the importance of major coastal estuaries to early juvenile stages of Dungeness crab, Cancer magister, that enter as megalopae and metamorphose on a variety of substrates.
http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/faculty/banse/banse.html
Karl Banse is interested in plankton ecology and biology. Specific topics of research interest include: plankton production and hydrography, especially in the Arabian Sea, and methodology in plankton work.
http://oceanweb.ocean.washington.edu/ocean_web/about/faculty/profiles/BARJOF.html
John Baross is interested in the field of biological oceanography. Specific topics of research interest include: thermophilic microorganisms from volcanic environments, the origin and evolution of life and life on other planets and moons, and microbial ecology of the Columbia River estuary.
http://fish.washington.edu/AcademicSite/facultyprofiles/beauchamp.html
David Beauchamp is interested in basic and applied questions that link individual behavior to community-level processes that influence the structure and function of aquatic food webs. Specific topics of research interest include: aquatic community ecology, food web modeling, native-nonnative interactions, behavior, population assessment, bioenergetics modeling, and hydroacoustics.
http://faculty.washington.edu/boersma/
Dee Boersma is interested in ecology and conservation biology. Specific topics of research interest include: how seabirds balance different selective forces, respond to environmental variability, and how they can be used as reflectors of environmental change. Her lab uses satellite telemetry to determine the foraging area of Magellanic and Rockhopper penguins in Argentina and the Falkland Islands, they are trying to identify places of particular importance in the protection of these birds.
http://faculty.washington.edu/ecarring/
Emily Carrington is interested inoadest sense, investigates the physiological ecology of marine organisms. I am particularly interested in the functional design of organisms that inhabit physically demanding environments, such as wave-swept rocky shores, where thermal, osmotic, and hydrodynamic conditions can be extreme. My research involves both plants and animals and spans many levels of biological organization, from the mechanics of biological materials, to the persistence of populations, to the characterization of the physical environment and how it influences biological processes.
http://depts.washington.edu/botweb/facbio/rac.html
Rose Ann Cattolico is interested in understanding the evolution and function of the chloroplast genomes in rhodophytic (red), chromophytic (green), and chromophytic (brown) algae. Specific topics of research interest include: analysis of the evolution and phylogeny of the chloroplast genomes via sequence analysis of an array of chloroplast genes, determination of the effect of environmental cues (e.g. light quality and quantity) on chloroplast genes, extension of the database for chloroplast genome structure of marine plants, research on the mechanisms of signal transduction including characterizing a protein encoded in the chloroplast which is a member of the "Response Regulator" superfamily of transcriptional regulator proteins, and research on the Calvin Cycle enzyme, phosphoribulokinase (PRK).
http://www.ocean.washingtosn.edu/people/faculty/deming/
Jody Deming is interested in many facets of oceanography. Specific topics of research interest include: micro-scale foraging strategies of marine microorganisms within physical support matrices (particle aggregates, sediments, sea ice), especially as they influence material cycles and the degradation of organic pollutants (bioremediation), molecular enzymatic basis for psychrophily in marine bacteria and relevance to polar ecology biotechnology, bioremediation, and astrobiology, and studies on subsurface biosphere along sea floor spreading zones.
http://faculty.washington.edu/mdethier/
Megan Dethier is interested in marine ecology, especially the ecology of shorelines. Specific topics of interest are: plant-herbivore interactions, especially the roles of algal functional morphology, chemical defenses, and ecological refuges; the effects of intertidal stresses (e.g., desiccation) on energy allocation patterns in intertidal algae - how algae make "decisions" when stressed about how to allocate energy between growth, reproduction, and defense; the classification, long-term monitoring, and maintenance of biodiversity of intertidal habitats. I am also interested in invertebrate functional morphology, especially morphological features that confer resistance to predators.
http://fish.washington.edu/essington
Tim Essington is interested in food web interactions involving fish in marine, estuarine, and freshwater habitats. Specific topics of research interest include: analysis of tropical tunas, sharks, and fisheries in the central Pacific, analysis of cod and clupeid dynamics in the Baltic Sea, understanding spatial scales of trophic interactions along continental shelf ecoystems, and identifying trophically mediated trade-offs between fisheries.
http://fish.washington.edu/people/francis/research.html
Robert Francis is interested in fisheries management, marine ecosystem dynamics, and fisheries oceanography. Specific topics of research interest include: understanding the structure and dynamics of large marine ecosystems, affects of harvest and physical forcing on marine ecosystems, and quantitative fishery science (e.g. statistics, mathematical modeling, population and/or ecosystem dynamics).
http://fish.washington.edu/people/friedman/
Carolyn Friedman is interested in infectious and non-infectious diseases of wild and cultured marine invertebrates. Specific topics of research interest include: mass mortality of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas on the west coast of the United States as well as the distribution of herpes virus in North American cultured oysters. Her lab is also currently developing tools to control and diagnose Withering Syndrome in abalone and investigation of the interrelationship between environmental stress and development of Withering Syndrome in red abalone, Haliotis rufescens, in California.
http://oceanweb.ocean.washington.edu/ocean_web/about/faculty/profiles/FROBRF.html
Bruce Frost is interested in many facets of oceanography. Specific topics of interest include: micro-scale foraging strategies of marine microorganisms within physical support matrices (particle aggregates, sediments, sea ice), especially as they influence material cycles and the degradation of organic pollutants (bioremediation), molecular enzymatic basis for psychrophily in marine bacteria and relevance to polar ecology biotechnology, bioremediation, and astrobiology.
http://fish.washington.edu/people/gallucci/research.html
Vincent Gallucci is interested in examining the last decade of conservation, management, and population dynamics of elasmobranchs, especially sharks. Specific topics or research interest include: dynamics of benthic populations such as bivalves and crustacea, mathematical methods consisting of dynamical systems and statistical analyses applied via modeling and risk analyses, and natural resource conflict resolution.
http://faculty.washington.edu/graubard/index.html
Katherine Graubard is interested in the field of neurobiology. Specific topics of research interest include: functional plasticity of neurons and animal behavior and the role of nitric oxide and the second messenger, cyclic GMP, in the development and modulation of the stomatogastric nervous system in crabs and lobsters.
http://faculty.washington.edu/random/DGinterests.html
Daniel Grünbaum is interested in a cross-disciplinary array of scientific approaches from population biology, behavioral ecology, mathematical biology, biomechanics, and fluid dynamics. Specific topics of research interest include: quantitative relationships between short-term, small-scale processes, such as individual movement behaviors, and their long-term, large-scale population level effects, such as population fluxes and distributions.
http://fish.washington.edu/people/hauser/research.html
Lorenz Hauser is interested in the application of molecular markers to problems in ecology and evolutionary biology. Specific topics of research interest include: anthropogenic disturbance exploitation and pollution as evolutionary model systems, introduced species, fisheries genetics, conservation genetics, and genetic structure within populations.
http://faculty.washington.edu/jcha/
James Ha is interested in the social behavior of highly cognitive animals. He has ongoing research efforts in two areas: 1) primate development, behavior, and reproduction, and 2) behavioral ecology and foraging behavior of corvids (crows). In addition, he has recently developed a research program in orca social organization.
http://faculty.washington.edu/herwig/
Russell Herwig is interested in the microbiology of aquatic environments. Specific topics of research interest include: ballast water and control of introduction of nonindigenous species, microbiology of contaminated groundwater, and microbiology of larval fish. His lab has also participated for nearly 10 years on a bioremediation related project focused on the aerobic and anaerobic transformation of chlorinated solvents and the identification of microorganisms capable of transforming these contaminants.
http://fish.washington.edu/people/rayh/RayCurrent.html
Ray Hilborn is interested in fisheries population dynamics and management, natural resource conservation, and fishery resources management of the west coast of the U. S., Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. Specific topics of research interest include: explicit spatial modeling of populations, design of adaptive management systems for natural resources, the behavior and dynamics of fishing fleets, relating models to data using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods, fisheries stock assessment and population viability analysis. His also has major projects on salmon in Western Alaska, salmon and marine fishes on the west coast of the lower 48 states, and stock assessments and marine mammal interactions in New Zealand marine fisheries.
http://fish.washington.edu/people/jhorne/jkhhome.html
John Horne is interested in three distinct but related areas: scale-dependent processes influencing aquatic organism distributions, predator-prey interactions and the application of acoustics to aquatic ecology and resource management. Specific topics or research interest include: spatial and temporal patchiness of organism distributions, spectral analysis and bioenergetic models to examine predator and prey interactions, and fish distribution/abundance data sampling using scientific echosounders in an attempt to compare predictions from morphologically based acoustic models to laboratory and field measurements.
http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/faculty/rickkeil/rickkeil.html
Rick Keil studies preservation and degradation of organic compounds in aquatic environments, global carbon cycles, microbial processes that lead to organic matter burial or preservation, sorptive processes between organics and mineral surfaces, and application of flow-based separation techniques to process and study individual components of complex mixtures.
http://depts.washington.edu/zooweb/kimelman.html
David Kimelman is interested in the intercellular signals involved in early vertebrate development. Specific topics of research interest include: understanding the role of each intercellular signaling factor in specifying cell fate in the early frog and fish embryo and intracellular signaling pathways involving signaling factors that are likely to have a major role in dividing the early embryo into regions with distinct cellular identities.
http://www.sma.washington.edu/facultystaff/klinger.html
Terrie Klinger is interested in the application of genetic, population, and ecosystem-based studies to marine environmental decision-making. Specific topics of research interest include: population biology and ecology of kelps and other seaweeds, effects of global change on early development in seaweeds, ecological impacts and recovery from the Exxon Valdez and other oil spills, effects of thermal discharge into the marine environment, biosafety assessment of engineered genes in the environment, and implementation of marine protected areas.
http://depts.washington.edu/zooweb/kohn.html
Alan Kohn is interested in evolutionary processes that have led to high biotic diversity in tropical marine environments. Specific topics of research interest include: elucidating important evolutionary trends in diversity, morphology, distribution, and ecology of marine mollusks, evolution of taxonomic diversity, and relationships between larval developmental mode and biogeographic patterns.
http://depts.washington.edu/zooweb/kozloff.html
Eugene Kozloff is interested in systematics and functional morphology of marine turbellarians, and the biology of invertebrates. Specific topics of research interest include: Differentiation, dedifferentiation, and redifferentiation of an acoel flatworm; acoel fauna of the region. Dr. Kozloff is based out of Friday Harbor Laboratories.
http://oceanweb.ocean.washington.edu/ocean_web/about/faculty/profiles/LESEVF.html
Evelyn Lessard is interested in microzooplankton ecology. Specific topics of research interest include: ecology and physiology of heterotrophic dinoflagellates, oceanic and coastal microbial food web dynamics, role of protists in bioremediation in sediments, and immunofluorescent probes for tracing trophic transfers.
http://oceanweb.ocean.washington.edu/ocean_web/about/faculty/profiles/LILMAF.html
Marvin Lilley is interested in both chemical and biological oceanography. Specific areas of research interest include: chemistry and microbiology of hydrothermal systems as it relates to volatiles, development of instruments for use in hydrothermal systems, and biogeochemical cycles of H2 and CH4 in aquatic environments.
http://fish.washington.edu/AcademicSite/facultyprofiles/miller.html
Bruce Miller is interested in the ecological life history of marine fishes. Specific topics of research interest include recruitment variability in rockfishes, and a variety of studies on the ecological and early life history of marine fishes.
http://depts.washington.edu/zooweb/mills.html
http://faculty.washington.edu/cemills/
Claudia Mills is interested in gelatinous zooplankton and ocean conservation. Specific topics or research interest include: collaborative fieldwork working toward a global sense of the biology, ecology, biodiversity, and evolution of medusae and ctenophores. She also studies the impacts of alien marine species in nearshore ecosystems.
http://depts.washington.edu/zooweb/morse.html
M. Patricia Morse is interested in molluscan biology and science education. Specific topics of research interest include: microscopic analysis (transmission and scanning electron and confocal microscopy) of the bivalve heart-kidney system as well as molluscan meiofaunal ecology and systematics studies. She currently serves as Principal Investigator for the Independent College Office on an NSF K-12 Partnership project and chairs a National Academies of Sciences NRC Committee on Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.Ds to K-12 Education."
http://www.apl.washington.edu/people/profile.php?last=Newton&first=Jan
Jan Newton is interested in the production and export of organic material in marine systems. Specific topics of interest include: food-web and seasonal effects in marine systems, the use of chlorophyll and degradation pigments as tracers of material flux, estuarine/coastal dynamics and marine water quality issues, and the effect of climate and ENSO.
http://depts.washington.edu/zooweb/paine.html
Robert Paine is interested in factors organizing and therefore producing observable structure on a diverse rocky shore exposed to heavy wave action. Specific topics of research interest include: predator mediated coexistence, the strength of interactions and food web structure, the interplay between grazing intensity and benthic algal production, and factors generating alternative community states.
http://fish.washington.edu/people/parrish/
Julia Parrish is interested in behavior of organisms living in groups (like schools of fish and colonially nesting seabirds), seabird ecology, and marine conservation. She is also involved in a number of projects including the COASST citizen science project dedicated to involving volunteers in the collection of high quality data on the status and trends of coastal resources.
http://artedi.fish.washington.edu/Staff/tpietsch.html
Ted Pietsch is interested primarily in marine ichthyology, especially the biosystematics, zoogeography, and behavior of deep-sea fishes. He has also published extensively in the history of ichthyology. A specific topic of research is the reproductive biology of deep-sea ceratioid anglerfishes. As curator of the UW Fish Collection (www.UWFishCollection.org), he is also interested in biotic survey and inventory, having conducted a long series of expeditions to collect plants and animals in the Russian Far East.
http://fish.washington.edu/people/punt/
Andre Punt is interested in biomathematics, multispecies modeling, population dynamics, and stock assessment. Specific topics of research interest include: developing new methods for assessing fish and marine mammal populations, evaluating the performance of existing methods for assessing and managing renewable resource populations, and Bayesian assessment and risk analysis methods to examine modern fisheries management.
http://fish.washington.edu/people/tquinn/research.html
Thomas Quinn is interested in fish behavior and ecology. Specific topics of research interest include: migratory behavior, habitat requirements, and spawning behavior of salmon and trout. His lab also blends field techniques such as tagging, telemetry and direct observations with laboratory experiments.
http://oceanweb.ocean.washington.edu/ocean_web/about/faculty/profiles/ROCGAF.html
Gabrielle Rocap is interested in the ecology and evolution of marine cyanobacteria. Her specific areas of research interest include: genetic diversity and ecotype distributions in coastal and open ocean cyanobacterial populations, comparative genomics of Prochlorococcus, transcriptional profiling and genomic analysis using microarrays.
http://depts.washington.edu/zooweb/ruesink.html
Jennifer Ruesink is interested in using experiments to reveal mechanisms underlying biotic patterns based on understanding humanity's impacts on the global ecosystem. Specific topics of research interest include exploring thresholds in species interactions, introduced species, and biological diversity and ecosystem functioning.
http://fish.washington.edu/schindler
Daniel Schindler focuses his research on understanding the causes and consequences of dynamics in aquatic ecosystems. Specific topics of research interest include: (1) the effects of changing climate on trophic interactions and ecosystem services provided by aquatic ecosystems, (2) fisheries as large-scale drivers of ecosystem organization, (3) importance of anadromous fishes for linking marine ecosystems to coastal aquatic and riparian systems, and (4) the importance of aquatic-terrestrial coupling in the organization of aquatic ecosystems.
http://protist.biology.washington.edu/bio2/people/bio.html?parecID=788
http://depts.washington.edu/zooweb/secord.html
David Secord is interested in experimental marine ecology. Specific topics of research interest include: basic and applied ecology of organisms dwelling on temperate rocky shores, life history ecology and biology of invertebrate symbioses with unicellular algae, and sexual-asexual tradeoffs in clonal invertebrates. His applied research interests fall generally into the realm of marine conservation biology, specifically the ecology of invasions of non-indigenous marine species.
http://fish.washington.edu/people/simenstd/research.html
Charles Simenstad is interested in studying shallow-water communities and food webs of estuarine and coastal marine ecosystems throughout Puget Sound, the Washington coast, and Alaska. Specific topics of research interest include: exploring the ecological mechanisms whereby estuarine and coastal wetlands support fish (especially juvenile Pacific salmon), basic ecosystem-, community- and habitat-level interactions with emphasis on predator-prey relationships, and enhancement of estuarine and coastal wetland ecosystems.
http://faculty.washington.edu/sisneros/sisneros.htm
Joseph Sisneros is interested in the plasticity of neural mechanisms and behavior. His research program focuses on the adaptive plasticity of sensory systems for the encoding of biological relevant signals used during social and reproductive behaviors. Fish are used as model systems to investigate the ontogenetic and sexual-maturity dependent changes in the response properties and function of sensory systems, specifically the auditory and electrosensory systems of fishes.
http://faculty.washington.edu/easmith/research.htm
Eric Smith is interested in the evolutionary-ecological analysis of production and reproduction. Current research interest primarily involves the Inuit (Canadian Eskimos) of arctic Canada as well as communities in the Torres Strait (tropical Australia) that examine foraging decisions in relation to reproductive strategies, gender relations, and village politics among the Meriam, a Melanesian island population.
http://depts.washington.edu/zooweb/strathmann.html
Richard Strathmann is interested in the functional and historical constraints on developmental adaptations of marine invertebrates. Specific topics of interest include: evolution of rates of development, constraints on parental protection of embryos, morphological plasticity in response to food, larval feeding mechanisms, and evolutionary transitions between modes of development. His lab is also working on larval dispersal, adequacy of cues to favorable sites for settling larvae, relationships between adult size and brooding, hermaphroditism, fertilization success, and functional consequences of coloniality.
http://www.cqs.washington.edu/~gordie/gordie.html
Gordie Swartzman is interested in ecological simulations, spatial data analysis (spatial statistics), and developing user-friendly front ends for various customized application packages. Specific topics of research interest include: spatially explicit phenomena in ecological systems, patchily distributed fish (fish schools) and their prey patches, and ecological simulation models that are evaluated by developing models of plankton dynamics in repeatable microcosms (having true replicates).
http://fish.washington.edu/AcademicSite/facultyprofiles/vanblaricom.html
Glenn VanBlaricom is interested in aquatic and marine wildlife, community ecology, and ecological consequences of oil spills in marine environments. Specific topics of research interest include: community ecology of sea otters in the coastal marine habitats of Russia and the west coast of the US, the translocation of sea otters in order to establish a new population in California, and interactions of other aquatic wildlife and their ecosystems in Washington.
http://faculty.washington.edu/jrw/dept/
Dr. Waaland is interested in the biology of the algae with an emphasis on seaweeds. Specific topics of research interest include: studies involving the biology of eelgrass meadows and the systematics and phylogeny of certain seaweeds (e.g., the Bangiaceae [Stiller & Waaland 1996, 1993] in the red algae and the Ulvaceae in the green algae).
http://depts.washington.edu/zooweb/ward.html
Peter Ward is interested in patterns of speciation in the ectocochliate cephalopod nautilus and processes of distinction in ancient cephalopods. Specific topics of research interest include: live capture and transport of nautilus specimens to the U.S. where shell biometric and gel electrophoretic research is conducted and fossil work taking place in France and Spain looking for patterns of survival and extinction in ammonites and nautiloids.
http://depts.washington.edu/zooweb/willows.html
Dennis Willows is interested in neurophysiology of marine mollusks. Specific topics of research interest include: studying the neural circuits underlying control of feeding and magnetosensory orientation behaviors, and using behavioral, electrophysiological, and molecular/biochemical techniques to sort these out. In particular, the Willows lab is trying to determine which central nervous system circuits, neurons and peptides are responsible for detecting and coordinating responses to the geomagnetic field and to rheotactic (water current) stimuli.
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