Cherie Briggs

Professor

2112 Noble Hall
Dr. Briggs’ research combines modeling and experiments to understand the factors affecting the dynamics of animal populations.

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.

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.

Hillary Young

EEMB Vice Chair, Resources
Professor

2116 Noble Hall
Community ecology, conservation biology, global change biology, disease ecology, food-web ecology.