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Dr. Briggs’ research combines modeling and experiments to understand the factors affecting the dynamics of animal populations.

Dr. Brzezinski's research focuses on a dominant group of marine phytoplankton, the diatoms.

Marine ecology, community ecology, trophic interactions, coral reefs.

Microbial oceanography, marine biogeochemistry, bacterioplankton dynamics, dissolved organic matter, carbon cycle.

My research is concerned with the biology of deep-sea animals.

Mechanisms regulating reproduction and development in vertebrate animal models.

Terrestrial plant community and ecosystem ecology, controls over vegetation change, feedbacks, restoration ecology.

Ecological and evolutionary physiology, Fish biology, global change biology, comparative physiology.

Population and community ecology, river ecology, predator-prey interactions, science education.

Marine ecology, sustainable fisheries, aquaculture, oceans and climate change.

Our laboratory studies the genetic basis of adaptation and speciation using genomic analyses and field-based studies in the genus Aquilegia (Columbines).

Global change biology and marine physiology.

Marine ecology, community ecology, species interactions.

Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez has worked for twenty years on diversity and function in marine phytoplankton combining molecular approaches, carbon physiology and biogeochemistry in the lab and in the field.

The mission of our research group is to reveal the role of infectious diseases in ecosystems. We investigate parasite ecology, disease ecology, food web dynamics, ecology and evolution of infectious strategies, and control of human parasites.

Limnology and Coastal Oceanography, with particular emphasis on physical-biological coupling.

Quantitative evolutionary genetics, mating system evolution, adaptation, pollination ecology, and floral evolution.

Ecology; Conservation Science.

Dr. Melack studies ecological processes in lakes, wetlands and streams and their catchments throughout the world.

Uses mathematics, experiments, and field observations to understand how metabolic interactions between species shape the structure and function of ecological communities.

Population ecology; regulation of populations; predator-prey relationships.

Ecological theory and modeling, ecotoxicology, ecophysiology.

Macroevolution, phylogenetics, bioluminescence, vision, molecular evolution, complexity, marine organismal biology.

Plant-microbe evolution and ecology, microbial species diversity and taxonomy, evolution of symbiosis.

Mathematical theory of evolutionary and eco-evolutionary processes.

Explores the ecological consequences of individual variation in behavior for individuals, populations, and communities.

Genetics, evolution, biometry.

Evolutionary and quantitative genetics of development, robustness and fidelity of complex systems, interstellar biology.

My major interests are in behavior, ecology, evolution and ornithology.

Marine microbial ecology, nitrogen cycling.

Soil and ecosystem ecology, microbial ecology, nutrient cycling, soil organic matter.

Population and community ecology; applied ecology; consumer-resource interactions; marine invertebrates and reef fishes.

Professor Siegel’s research focuses on aquatic ecosystems and their functioning using the tools of an applied physicist, radiative transfer and fluid mechanics.

Ocean Resilience: biodiversity, assembly, and sustainability of harvested ocean ecosystems.

Distributional ecology and systematics of western North American and Australian amphibians and reptiles; ecology and systematics of monitor lizards; mechanics of intergrade zones and of speciational processes; crypsis; functional and evolutionary morphology; ethnozoology; conservation biology.

We seek to understand the genetic basis of behavioral variation by combining population genetics and neurobiology in Drosophila and other species.

I am interested how microbial interactions and tightly-coupled biogeochemical cycles drive the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of populations, with a current focus on the bacteria and archaea of marine aggregates and biofilms.

Community ecology, conservation biology, global change biology, disease ecology, food-web ecology.