Jamee Adams
Nutrient cycling
Phosphorus biogeochemistry
Julia Chavarry
Food Web Ecology
Tyler Coale
Eukaryotic phytoplankton
Metatranscriptomic response of marine eukaryotic phytoplankton communities to iron and light. Mechanisms of iron uptake in diatoms.
Nathalí Cordero-Quiro
El Niño - Southern Oscillation Events
Analysis of the predictability of ENSO events in the CCS
Christian Fender
Zooplankton ecology, particularly of gelatinous species
Estimates of carbon export to the deep and the mechanisms by which zooplankton influence it
Kiefer Forsch
Iron biogeochemistry
Iron supply and cycling in productive planktonic ecosystems
Shailja Gangrade
Biophysical Interactions
Physical and ecological drivers of plankton/fish spatial distribution
John Irving
Biogeochemical Modeling
Bottom up controls of lower trophic level biomass
Thomas Kelly
Developing synoptic understandings of carbon export
Quantifying mechanisms controlling export efficiency within an ecosystem
Rob Lampe
Eukaryotic phytoplankton
Phytoplankton responses to altered nitrogen, iron, and pCO2.
Diatom biodiversity
Laura Lilly (CCE grad student representative)
Zooplankton transports in the CCS in response to El Niño events
Mesozooplankton-mediated carbon export
Caroline Lowcher
California Current upwelling system
Coastal processes and dynamics of upwelling systems. Observational oceanography of boundary curre
Lauren Manck
Microbial community composition as related to iron availability in the CCE
Mechanisms used by the microbial community for obtaining sufficient iron in low-iron environments
Stephanie Matthews
Zooplankton ecology
Plankton community structure and trophic interactions
Kelley McBride
Biophysical interactions
Cross-shore plankton transport influenced by nonlinear internal waves
Sara Rivera
Microbial nutrient cycling
Temporal and spatial changes of heterotropic bacterial contributions to the CCE/CaCOFI region
Sarah Schwenck
Microbial ecology
Phytoplankton, bacteria, and virus interactions as well as microbial nutrient cycling
Monica Thukral
Phytoplankton Ecology & Metabolites
Ralph Riley Torres
Organic Matter Cycling
Organic matter biogeochemistry
Chemical characterization and transformations of organic nitrogen
Margot White
Stable isotopes of nitrate
Organic matter and nitrogen cycling
Wiley Wolfe
Chemical sensor development
Seawater carbonate chemistry in the CCE/CalCOFI region
Natalie Yingling
Plankton ecology
Biological carbon pump