Deron Burkepile

Professor

4312 Marine Science Institute
Marine ecology, community ecology, trophic interactions, coral reefs.

Craig Carlson

Professor

3147 Marine Biotech
Microbial oceanography, marine biogeochemistry, bacterioplankton dynamics, dissolved organic matter, carbon cycle.

Halley Froehlich

Assistant Professor

4007 Bren Hall
The Froehlich Lab studies the sustainability of seafood and marine ecosystems under climate change.

Steve Gaines

Professor

2410 Bren Hall
Marine ecology, sustainable fisheries, aquaculture, oceans and climate change.

Gretchen Hofmann

Professor

4310 Marine Science Institute
Global change biology and marine physiology.

Débora Iglesias-Rodriguez

Professor

3151 Marine Biotech
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.

Armand Kuris

Professor

2002 Marine Biotech
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.

Douglas McCauley

Professor

2314 Marine Science Institute
Ecology; Conservation Science.

Todd Oakley

EEMB Department Chair
Professor

4101 Life Sciences Building
Macroevolution, phylogenetics, bioluminescence, vision, molecular evolution, complexity, marine organismal biology.

Adrian Stier

Associate Professor

2108 Noble Hall
Ocean Resilience: biodiversity, assembly, and sustainability of harvested ocean ecosystems.

Andrew Thurber

Associate Professor

Noble Hall 2136

My research focuses on how deep-sea and polar communities function.  These areas cover well over 63 percent of the gl

Thomas Turner

Associate Professor

4103 Life Sciences
We seek to understand the genetic basis of behavioral variation by combining population genetics and neurobiology in Drosophila and other species.

Rebecca Vega Thurber

Professor; Director of UCSB Marine Science Institute

MSRB 4326
Our lab studies the microbial and viral ecology of marine and terrestrial species. We also conduct work specifically on marine conservation, aiming to better evaluate the unseen biodiversity of marine systems and to identify innovative solutions to the global declines of key marine species.

Soojin Yi

Professor

4107 Life Science Building
An evolutionary biologist using genomic and epigenomic tools to study regulatory evolution.