Core Faculty and Professional Interests

Kenneth W. Bruland, Professor
Interests: Chemical oceanography; biogeochemistry of trace metals and radionuclides, aquatic chemistry and geochemistry

Margaret L. (Peggy) Delaney, Professor
Interests: Paleoceanography; marine geochemistry

Christopher A. Edwards, Assistant Professor
Interests: Physical oceanography, numeric modeling of coastal and basin-scale dynamics

Robert E. Garrison, Professor Emeritus
Interests: Deep water sedimentology, diagenesis, and paleoceanographic histories; Natural resources and economic development

Raphael M. Kudela, Associate Professor
Interests: Ecological modeling and remote sensing; satellite oceanography; phytoplankton ecology and harmful algal blooms

Andrew M. Moore, Professor
Interests: Ocean dynamics, numerical modeling and data assimilation, coastal oceanography, tropical air-sea interaction and tropical climate variability, generalized stability analysis, ocean prediction and predictability, adjoint methods in oceanography and meteorology  

Matthew D. McCarthy, Assistant Professor
Interests:   Organic geochemistry, marine organic geochemistry, global biogeochemical cycles. Particularly use of amino acids and other nitrogen-containing biomarkers to study open ocean and hydrothermal sea floor ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles

A. Christina Ravelo, Professor
Interests: Stable isotope geochemistry and chemical oceanography; paleoclimatology

Mary W. Silver, Professor
Interests: Biological oceanography, marine plankton; midwater ecology

Jonathan P. Zehr, Professor
Interests: Aquatic microbial ecology; biological oceanography