Faculty

Arthur Spivack, Ph.D.

Program Director & Professor of Oceanography, Marine Geology and Geophysics
Graduate School of Oceanography

Research/Interests: Chemical Oceanography, Ocean Paleochemistry and Climate, Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Astrobiology, Isotope, Chemistry

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Susanne Menden-Deuer

Professor of Oceanography, Biological Oceanography, Exploratory Oceanography, Plankton Ecology
Graduate School of Oceanography

Research/Interests: Algal Blooms, Biogeochemical Cycling, Bio-optics, Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, Ecosystem Dynamics, In-situ Sensing, Instrumentation, Small-Scale Structures, Marine Habitat and Ecosystems, Microbial Biogeochemistry, Microbial Ecology, Numerical Modeling, Ocean Dynamics, Physiology, Phytoplankton Ecology, Plankton Ecology, Plankton Imaging, Science Communication, Zooplankton Ecology

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Christopher Roman

Professor of Oceanography, Physical Oceanography
Graduate School of Oceanography

Research/Interests: Climate Change, Coastal and Estuarine Health, Coastal and Estuarine Physical Oceanography, Coastal Circulation and Mixing, Coastal Water Circulation, Current Measurements, Engineering, Estuarine Circulation and Mixing, Estuarine Oceanography, Hypoxia, In-situ Sensing, Instrumentation, Observational Physical Oceanography, Observations of Mixing and Circulation, ROV Sensing, Underwater Archeology

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Katherine Kelley

Professor of Oceanography, Marine Geology and Geophysics
Graduate School of Oceanography

Research/Interests: Geochemical Exchange in Earth, Geochemical Tracers, Geochemistry, Geology, Mantle Dynamics, Petrology, Tectonics, Trace Metal Geochemistry, Volcanism, Volcano

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Colleen Mouw

Associate Professor of Oceanography, Biological Oceanography
Graduate School of Oceanography

Research/Interests: Aquatic Color Remote Sensing of Ocean and Lakes, Phytoplankton Ecology, Optics, Phytoplankton Imaging, Primary Production, Carbon Cycling, Physical Drivers of Phytoplankton Variability, Mentoring, Professional Communication

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Melissa Omand

Assistant Professor of Oceanography, Physical Oceanography
Graduate School of Oceanography

Research/Interests: Observational Oceanography, Physical-Biological Interactions, Submesoscale Processes

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Brian Heikes

Professor of Oceanography, Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry
Graduate School of Oceanography

Research/Interests: Atmospheric Science, Air-Sea Interaction, Atmospheric Chemical Transport, Chemistry, Instrumentation, Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamic Systems, Pollution

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Martha McConnell

Lecturer, Physical Oceanography
Graduate School of Oceanography

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