IMS Affiliated Faculty

Faculty are hired by their respective departments, to which they owe primary responsibility; however, the institute continues to be involved in the identification of hiring and faculty needs of the cross-disciplinary marine program through active involvement in new faculty searches and in support of departmental recommendations. Affiliated faculty and researchers are those individuals that utilize any of the ORU’s resources (space, seawater, equipment, etc) and/or individuals whose research falls within one of the seven research clusters supported by IMS. IMS only appoints affiliates in the ORU based on the individual researchers request to be associated with the ORU.
Don Croll
  • Title
    • Professor
  • Division Physical & Biological Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
    • Institute of Marine Sciences
  • Affiliations Environmental Studies Department, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
  • Phone
    831-459-3610, 831-459-4581
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Long Marine Lab Ocean Health Building, 248B
  • Office Hours By appointment
  • Mail Stop Long Marine Lab
  • Mailing Address
    • 115 McAlister Way
    • Santa Cruz CA 95060

Research Interests

Marine Ecology, Marine Conservation Biology

Our lab brings science and action together to solve conservation problems. We use science to identify and prioritize conservation problems and work with agencies and NGOs to develop and test cost effective solutions that can be taken to scale. Much of our work has focused on seabirds and island ecosystems, but we will apply our approach to any ecosystem where it can make a profound difference.

Biography, Education and Training

B.S., University of California, Davis
M.S., Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, California State University
Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California