Possible Faculty Mentors*

Bassem Allam Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 1998, European Institute of Marine Sciences,
University of Western Brittany, Brest, France) Pathobiology and immunobiology of marine shellfish.

Josephine Y. Aller Research Professor (Ph.D. 1975, University of Southern California) Marine microbiology/water quality;  bioaerosols; animal-sediment interactions and biogeochemical processes, sensor technology for microbial processes studies.

Robert C. Aller Distinguished Professor (Ph.D., 1977, Yale University) Marine biogeochemistry, animal-sediment relations: diagenetic processes, mineral authigenesis, and exchange rates of dissolved material across the sediment-water interface, sensors.

David E. Black Assistant Professor (Ph.D., 1998, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami) Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, deep-sea sediments, marine micropaleontology

Henry J. Bokuniewicz Professor (Ph.D. 1976, Yale University) Nearshore transport processes, coastal sedimentation, marine geophysics: The behavior of coastal sedimentary systems and especially the fate of fine-grained sediment particles.

Bruce J. Brownawell Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1986, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Biogeochemistry of organic pollutants in seawater and groundwater

Robert M. Cerrato Associate Professor (Ph.D. 1980, Yale University) Benthic ecology, population and community dynamics: population and community dynamics of benthic animals and impacts of physical disturbances on benthic community structure.

Edmund K.M. Chang Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1993, Princeton University)
Atmospheric dynamics and diagnoses, climate dynamics, synoptic meteorology.

J. Kirk Cochran Professor (Ph.D. 1979, Yale University) Marine geo-chemistry, use of radionuclides as geochemical tracers; diagenesis of marine sediments.

Brian A. Colle Associate Professor (Ph.D. 1997, University of Washington) Coastal meteorology, mesoscale numerical modeling and forecasting; the structure and dynamics of mesoscale phenomena in the coastal zones.

Mark D. Fast Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2005, Dalhousie University) Aquatic diseases, interactions between fish hosts and pathogens

Roger D. Flood Professor (Ph.D.1978, M.I.T./W.H.O.I.) Marine geology, sediment dynamics, Use of high-resolution methods to study continental margin sedimentation patterns and processes.

Michael G. Frisk Assistant Professor (PhD. 2004, University of Maryland) Fish ecology, population modeling and life history theory.

Christopher J. Gobler Associate Professor (Ph.D. 1999, Stony Brook Univ.) Phytoplankton, harmful algal blooms, estuarine ecology, aquatic biogeochemistry.

Daniel Knopf Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2003 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland) Chemical and physical properties of aerosol particles.

Kamazima M.M. Lwiza  Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1990, University of Wales) Physical oceanography of shelf-seas and the use of remote sensing to study larval transport.

John E. Mak Associate Professor (Ph.D. 1992, University of California, San Diego/Scripps Institution of Oceanography) Sources, sinks, and chemistry of trace gases in the earth's atmosphere.

Stephan B. Munch Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2002, Stony Brook Univ.) Evolutionary ecology of growth, predator- prey interactions, and life history traits of fish populations.

Bradley J. Peterson Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 1998, Dauphin Island Sea Lab/Univ. South Alabama) Community ecology of seagrass dominated ecosystems.

Mary I. Scranton Professor (Ph.D. 1977, M.I.T./W.H.O.I.) Marine geochemistry, cycling of organic compounds in sediments and in the water column.

Joseph D. Warren Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2001, M.I.T. W.H.O.I.) Acoustical oceanography, Zooplankton behavior and ecology.

Robert E. Wilson Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1974, The Johns Hopkins Univ.) Physical oceanography, estuarine and coastal ocean dynamics and transport processes.

Minghua Zhang Professor & ITPA Director (Ph.D., 1987, Institute of Atmospheric Physics,
Academia Sinica) Numerical modeling of climate and global climate change, atmospheric dynamics.

Qingzhi Zhu Research Scientist/Adjunct Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1997, Xiamen University, China) Sensors for studies of biogeochemical processes, Environmental Analytical Chemistry.

* For complete biographical sketches og to the SoMAS Faculty Profiles web page

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