Jamee Adams

Nutrient cycling

Phosphorus biogeochemistry

Julia Chavarry

Food Web Ecology

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

Rob Lampe

Eukaryotic phytoplankton

Phytoplankton responses to altered nitrogen, iron, and pCO2.  
Diatom biodiversity

Caroline Lowcher

California Current upwelling system

Coastal processes and dynamics of upwelling systems. Observational oceanography of boundary curre

Stephanie Matthews

Zooplankton ecology

Plankton community structure and trophic interactions

Kelley McBride

Biophysical interactions

Cross-shore plankton transport influenced by nonlinear internal waves

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

Wiley Wolfe

Chemical sensor development

Seawater carbonate chemistry in the CCE/CalCOFI region

Natalie Yingling

Plankton ecology

Biological carbon pump