Todd Anderson Biology. Ecology of coastal fishes: recruitment processes, population dynamics and regulation, predator-prey interactions, habitat-dependent demographic rates.

Kathe Bertine Geology. Marine geochemistry; analysis of trace elements in seawater, manganese nodules, sediments and biota.

Colin Brauner Fish physiology and toxicology. Influence of changes in environmental conditions (natural; oxygen, salinity, temperature, and anthropogenic; metals and organic compounds) on gas exchange, acid-base balance and ionoregulation in marine fishes during rest and exercise.

Carl Carrano Chemistry. Investigations of the relationship between phytoplankton growth and the availability of the essential micronutrient iron. Culture and characterization of the symbiotic bacteria which produce iron-binding compounds (siderophores) that can be utilized by the plankton to provide the iron needed for prolific growth.

RH Defran. Psychology. Behavioral ecology and population dynamics of Pacific coast bottlenose dolphins; boat-based photo-identification and land-based behavior observations are carried out.

Clive Dorman Geology. Physical oceanography; circulation patterns of near coastal waters.

Matt Edwards Kelp Forests, El Nino/La Nina, Disturbance Ecology, Community Ecology, Scale-Dependent Processes, Subtidal Ecology

Gary Girty Geology.

Barry Hanan Geology.

Barbara Hemmingsen Biology. Marine microbiology; bioremediation of petroleum, contaminated seawater, freshwater and soil.

Brian Hentschel Marine invertebrates, benthic ecology, complex life cycles, ontogenetic niche shifts, larval ecology, deposit feeding, organism-flow interactions, sediment pollution.

Kevin Hovel Marine Ecology, conservation biology, faunal abundance and survival in coastal habitats with relation to seagrass habitat structure, restoration strategies for seagrass habitat, use of GIS to map seagrass habitats, postlarval settlement and habitat structure of juvenile spiny lobsters, recruitment and survival of fishes and invertebrates in kelp forests.

Stuart Hurlbert Biology. Plankton and bird communities of coastal lagoons and saline lakes.

Sharook Madon Pacific Estuarine Research Lab. Fish ecology and wetland science, long-term monitoring programs at PERL's major study sites: Sweetwater Marsh National Wildlife Refuge (San Diego Bay), Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, Los Peñasquitos Lagoon, and San Quintin Bay (Baja, California, Mexico), evaluating fish-habitat relationships in marsh habitats, and assessing habitat functions in newly created/restored marsh habitats, laboratory and field studies of fish feeding periodicity, bioenergetics, and growth.

Robert Metzger Chemistry. Comparative enzymology; comparison of kinetic and physical properties of enzymes from different species; carbohydrate metabolism.

Molly Pohl Geography. Fluvial geomorphology, emphasizing human impacts to river channels, coastal rivers, water policy and management.

Tom Rockwell Geology. Ground water.

Anca Segall Cell and Molecular Biology.

Doug Stow Geography. Remote sensing of hydrodynamic processes., remote sensing of watersheds and land resource management, monitoring of natural and restored coastal salt marshes, modeling of sediment delivery from coastal rivers, kelp bed mapping and monitoring, biological oceanographic relationships for fisheries, and coral reef mapping.

Kathy S. Williams Biology. Insect herbivore-plant interactions (population ecology), especially ecology of introduced herbivore or plant species and in restored habitats.

Richard D. Wright. Geography. Geographic information systems(GIS), cartographic visualization and watershed analysis, the use of GIS in land use and water quality modeling, and transborder geo-spatial data integration in the United States-Mexico border region.

Robert W. Zeller Evolutionary developmental biology, developmental biology of ascidians, chordate evolution, bioinformatics, molecular biology/biochemistry, high-resolution microscopy, gene regulatory networks.

Al Zirino Chemistry. Chemical oceanography, speciation and activity of copper in marine waters, hydrodynamic modeling and water quality studies of the Venice Lagoon, Italy.