IMS Affiliated Faculty

Suzanne H. Alonzo

  • Title
    • Full Professor
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-502-7706 (Office), 831-459-4752 (Lab)
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • CSC Coastal Biology Building, 223
  • Office Hours Varies- Please email to make an appointment.
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Animal Behavior, Behavioral Ecology, Sexism and Gender Bias, Fisheries, Evolution, Game Theory, Marine Biology, Mathematical Modeling, Mediterranean Studies, Population Biology
  • Summary of Expertise

    Sexual selection, social behavior, evolutionary theory, quantitative methods in ecology and evolution

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Giacomo Bernardi

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-5124
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Long Marine Lab Ocean Health Building, A248
  • Office Hours by appointment
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Mark H Carr

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
    • Coastal Science & Policy Program
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-246-3524, 831-459-5783
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Long Marine Lab Ocean Health Building, 254 A
  • Office Hours By appointment
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Ecology, Coastal Science, Conservation, Fisheries, Marine Biology, Population Dynamics, Sustainability, Science Communication
  • Summary of Expertise

    Ecology of coastal marine ecosystems

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Patrick Y. Chuang

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-1501
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Earth & Marine Sciences, A254
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Climate Change, Atmospheric Science
  • Summary of Expertise

    Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry

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Daniel P Costa

  • Title
    • Director Institute of Marine Science
    • Distinguished Professor
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-2786
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • CSC Coastal Biology Auxiliary Building, CBB 256
  • Office Hours By appointment
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Behavioral Ecology, Coastal Science, Animal Behavior, Biology, Ecology, Marine Biology, Ocean Studies, Scientific Method, Natural History
  • Summary of Expertise

    B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
    Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
    Postdoctoral, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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Phillip Crews

  • Title
    • Distinguished Research Professor
  • Department
    • Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-2603 (Office), 831-459-4280 (Lab)
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Physical Sciences Building, 362
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Chemistry
  • Summary of Expertise

    Marine natural products chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, organic structural analysis by NMR, natural products of marine macro- and microorganisms Read more ...

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Don Croll

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-3610, 831-459-4581
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Long Marine Lab Ocean Health Building, 248B
  • Office Hours Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 or by appointment
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Christopher A Edwards

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Jerome Fiechter

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Ocean Sciences Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-4736
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Earth & Marine Sciences, A450
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Oceanography, Coastal Science, Computational Modeling
  • Summary of Expertise

    Physical and Biological Oceanography, Dynamics of Coastal Marine Ecosystems; Numerical Modeling.

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Andrew T Fisher

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor
  • Department
    • Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-5598, 831-459-4089
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Earth & Marine Sciences, A209
  • Office Hours varies by quarter
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Water, Hydrology, Geophysics, Geology, Geographic Information Systems, Climate Change, Oceanography, Earth Sciences, Mathematical Modeling, Water Policy and Management
  • Summary of Expertise

    Hydrogeology, Water Resources, Crustal Studies, Heat Flow, Coupled Modeling, Geothermal Tool Development

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Laurel R Fox

  • Title
    • Professor Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
  • Phone
    831-459-2533
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • CSC Coastal Biology Building, 265 CBB
  • Office Hours By appointment
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Gary B Griggs

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences
  • Department
    • Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-5006
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Earth & Marine Sciences, A-361
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Climate Change, Earth Sciences, Geology, Hydrology, Marine Sciences, Ocean Studies, Oceanography, Water
  • Summary of Expertise

    Coastal Processes and Hazards, Coastal Engineering, Impacts and Adaptation to Sea Level Rise

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Joanna Kelley

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • CSC Coastal Biology Building, 270
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Kristy Kroeker

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-5022 (Office)
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • CSC Coastal Biology Building, 221
  • Office Hours By Appointment
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Climate Change, Coastal Science, Ecology, Geochemistry, Marine Biology, Marine Sciences, Environmental Policy, Ocean Studies, Science Communication, Sustainability
  • Summary of Expertise

    Community ecology, species interactions, global change biology, marine ecology

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Raphael M. Kudela

  • Title
    • Department Chair and Distinguished Professor
    • IMS Associate Director of Academic Initiatives
  • Department
    • Ocean Sciences Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-3290
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Earth & Marine Sciences, A461
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Oceanography, Coastal Science, Marine Sciences, Ocean Studies
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Phoebe J. Lam

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Ocean Sciences Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-4587 (office)
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Earth & Marine Sciences, A446
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Oceanography, Geochemistry
  • Summary of Expertise

    Particle geochemistry, biological carbon pump, cycling of trace elements and isotopes, chemical oceanography

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Carl Lamborg

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Ocean Sciences Department
  • Phone
    831-459-2908
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Earth & Marine Sciences, A442
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Oceanography, Marine Sciences, Pollution, Geochemistry
  • Summary of Expertise

    Aquatic and atmospheric chemistry, trace metal (esp. mercury) biogeochemistry, chemical oceanography.

    Read more ...

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Marc Mangel

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Matthew D. McCarthy

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Ocean Sciences Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-1533, 831-459-4718
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Earth & Marine Sciences, A451
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Oceanography
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Dr. Rita S. Mehta

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-1490
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Long Marine Lab Ocean Health Building, Coastal Biology Building 265
  • Office Hours By Appointment
  • Summary of Expertise

    Comparative physiology
    Functional morphology
    Behavioral ecology, Animal Behavior, Ethology

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Andrew M Moore

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Ocean Sciences Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-4632
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • A460 Earth & Marine Sciences
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Oceanography, Coastal Science, Climatology
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Karen M. Ottemann

  • Title
    • Professor and Chair
  • Department
    • Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology Department
  • Phone
    831-459-3482 (Office), 831-459-4780 (Lab)
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Biomedical Sciences, 238
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Microbiology, Disease and Immunity, Human Biology
  • Summary of Expertise

    Helicobacter pylori

    Bacterial infection

    Bacterial chemotaxis

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Ingrid M. Parker

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
  • Phone
    831-459-5017
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • CSC Coastal Biology Building, 260
  • Office Hours Fall 2022: Tuesdays 11-12, https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/2775049074?pwd=VkdkTzdqcS84ZXlWQWErU3RxaFlldz09, and by appointment.
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Ecology, Plant Biology, Conservation, Land Management, Evolution, Population Biology
  • Summary of Expertise

    Plant ecology and evolution, invasion biology, plant conservation, restoration

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Grant H Pogson

  • Title
    • Professor Emeritus
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    8314595122
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • CSC Coastal Biology Building, 254 Coastal Biology Building
  • Office Hours Monday and Tuesday 12:30 to 1:30 pm
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Biology
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Donald C Potts

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Peter T Raimondi

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-5674
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Long Marine Lab Ocean Health Building, Center for Ocean Heallth, Room 254B
  • Office Hours by appointment
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Ecology, Evolution, Statistics
  • Summary of Expertise

    Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Marine Organisms

    Statisitics

    Experimental Design and analysis 

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Ana Christina Ravelo

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Chad W Saltikov

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology Department
  • Phone
    831-459-5520 (office)
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Physical Sciences Building, 438
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Microbiology
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Katherine Seto

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Department
    • Environmental Studies Department
  • Phone
    831-459-5147
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 477
  • Summary of Expertise

    Marine and coastal law and policy, political ecology, marine resource governance

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Don Smith

  • Title
    • Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, Distinguished Professor
  • Department
    • Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
    • Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
  • Phone
    831-459-5041
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Physical Sciences Building, 442
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience
  • Summary of Expertise

    Molecular, cellular, and organismal responses to metals. Neurotoxicology and therapeutic treatment of metal poisoning Read more ...

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Terrie M Williams

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-5123
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • CSC Coastal Biology Building, 262
  • Office Hours Friday 1030-1130 & TBA
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Fitnat H. Yildiz

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor
  • Department
    • Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-1588
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Biomedical Sciences, 240
  • Office Hours By Appointment
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James Zachos

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor
    • Ida Benson Lynn Chair of Ocean Health
  • Department
    • Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-4644
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Earth & Marine Sciences, Earth & Marine Sciences A260
  • Office Hours TBA
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Climate Change, Earth Sciences, Geochemistry
  • Summary of Expertise

    Paloeoceanography, Paleoclimatology, Stratigraphy, Stable Isotope Geochemistry

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Jonathan Zehr

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor
  • Department
    • Ocean Sciences Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-4009
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • A438 Earth & Marine Sciences
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Oceanography, Microbiology, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Marine Biology, Biology
  • Summary of Expertise

    Ph.D. in Ecology-Limnology, University of California, Davis
    B.S. in Biology, Western Washington University

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Kenneth Bruland

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor of Ocean Sciences
    • Professor Emeritus
  • Department
    • Ocean Sciences Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-4026, 831-459-2682, 831-459-4587
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • A446 Earth & Marine Sciences
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A. Russell Flegal

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-2093
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Physical Sciences Building, -
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James B Gill

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor Emeritus
  • Department
    • Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-3842
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Earth & Marine Sciences A210
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Burney J Le Boeuf

  • Title
    • Professor Emeritus
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-5014
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Long Marine Lab Service Building, (No campus office)
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Marc Mangel

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Eli Silver

  • Title
    • Professor Emeritus
  • Department
    • Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Phone
    831-459-2266, 831-459-4089
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Earth & Marine Sciences A142
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Mary W Silver

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