A well-published and broadly talented faculty of more than 100 Ph.D. faculty members, 170 graduate students and a research support and administrative staff of 250 comprise the academic community are dedicated to maintaining the School's reputation as one of the premier academic oceanographic research facilities in the world.

APPLIED MARINE PHYSICS

Darek J. Bogucki, Assistant Professor: ocean optics and optical remote sensing of small scale fluid processes
John W. Brown, Research Professor(Primary appointment at Medical School): marine organic chemistry, toxicology, physics and chemistry of the air-sea interface
Michael G. Brown, Professor(Secondary appointment in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography):ocean acoustics, surface gravity wave dynamics, Lagrangian ocean dynamics
Harry A. DeFerrari, Professor: underwater acoustics, signal processing
Mark A. Donelan, Professor,and Chairman(Secondary appointments in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, and Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry):air-sea interaction, wave dynamics, boundary layer turbulence,wave modelling, remote sensing, gas transfer, storm surge modeling, wind stress modeling
William M. Drennan, Associate Professor: air-sea interaction, turbulence, boundary layerssurface gravity waves
Thomas Hahn, Assistant Professor:underwater acoustics, bubble dynamics and two-phase flows
Hans C. Graber, Professor (Secondary appointment in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography):surface wave dynamics, microwave remote sensing of ocean processes, air-sea interaction and boundary-layer dynamics
Susanne Lehner, Associate Professor:Radar remote sensing of the sea surface, remote sensing of hurricanes, extreme ocean wave events
Peter Minnett, Professor(Primary appointment in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography):satellite remote sensing, air-sea interaction, Arctic oceanography
Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Assistant Professor(Primary appointment in Civil and Environmental Engineering):groundwater hydrology, numerical modeling of subsurface contaminant transport
Christopher N. K. Mooers, Professor (Secondary appointments in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, and Marine Affairs and Policy):coastal ocean circulation dynamics, circulation of marginal and semi-enclosed seas, mesoscale oceanography, coastal ocean prediction, evaluation of models and ocean observing networks, numerical simulation
Hien Ba Nguyen, Research Associate Professor:solid-state electronics, instrumentation, microcomputer systems, signal processing, underwater acoustics
Jacobus van de Kreeke, Professor Emerites:coastal engineering, estuarine and nearshore hydrodynamicsJohn D. Wang, Professor:coastal engineering, tidal hydraulics, hydrodynamics, mass transport
Jorge Willemsen, Professor:deterministic modeling of ocean surface gravity waves, including wind driving and dissipation; physical mechanisms for the transport of nutrients to plankton, including the interactions between zooplankton and phytoplankton
Tokuo Yamamoto, Professor:geoacoustics, marine soil mechanics, wave/soil/structure interactions

MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY

Elliot Atlas, Professor: Trace gas chemistry in the stratosphere and troposphere related to ozone formation and destruction;regional and global air quality
Rana A. Fine, Professor: ocean circulation as it relates to climate, using observations of chemical and isotopic tracers
Dennis A. Hansell, Professor,and Chairman: Marine carbon biogeochemistry,dissolved organix matter
James Happell, Research Assistant Professor: chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry,ground water inputs to coastal ocean
Anthony J. Hynes, Associate Professor: kinetics of atmospheric species as they influence climate processes
David C. Kadko, Professor: radioisotopic studies of earth processes, including oceanic circulation and submarine hydrothermal venting
Hal B. Maring, Research Assistant Professor: physical properties of aerosols as they relate to climate change processes
Frank J. Millero, Professor: marine and physical chemistry, effect of ionic interactions on processes in natural waters
Peter J. Milne, Research Assistant Professor: photochemistry, atmospheric hydrocarbons, lasers in analytical chemistry
Barbara Noziere, Research Assistant Professor: Atmospheric chemistry,aerosol and heterogeneous processes involving organic compounds
Joseph M. Prospero, Professor: atmospheric chemistry, sulfur and nitrogen species; long range transport, aerosol/climate effects
Dan Reimer,Research Assistant Professor: atmospheric chemsitry,aircraft and mobile platform based instrumentation,urban influence on the atmosphere,pharmaceuticals and pesticides in natural waters,aquatic photochemistry
Jose Rodriguez, Professor: atmospheric chemistry, stratospheric ozone numerical models
Dennis Savoie, Research Professor: budgets and cycling of nitrogen and sulfur in the marine troposphere
Barrie F. Taylor, Professor: bacterial biochemistry, biotechnology and bioremediation, physiology and ecology, transformations of sulfur,nitrogen, aromatics and methane
Zafer Top, Research Professor: use of rare gases and tritium for purposes of dating and tracing of water masses
Rod G. Zika, Professor: photochemistry, reaction kinetics, marine and atmospheric field oriented analysis

MARINE AFFAIRS AND POLICY

Daniel Benetti, Assistant Professor and Chairman: aquaculture management
Kenny Broad,Resaerch Assitant Professor:ecological anthropology,climate and society interaction
John A. Gifford, Associate Professor: underwater archaeology, geoarchaeology, management of shipwrecks as cultural resources
David Letson, Assistant Professor: economics of regulation, fisheries economics, water quality management
Liana Talaue McManus,Associate Professor:marine resource management and sustainable development and policy, social analysis of fisheries and aquaculture
Sarah K. Meltzoff, Associate Professor: marine resource management and sustainable development policy, social analyses of fisheries and aquaculture Fernando Moreno, Instructor: aquaculture and mariculture law and policy, environmental ocean and coastal law
Daniel O. Suman, Associate Professor: regulation of marine pollution, coastal zone management, marine and environmental law and policy, creation and management of marine protected areas, science and technology in Latin America
Maria L. Villanueva, Senior Research Associate: management of recreational and commercial fishing, industry economic impact studies, marine resource allocation policy, marine geographic information systems

MARINE BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES

Jerald S. Ault, Associate Professor: theoretical population dynamics, fishery management systems
Elizabeth Babocock,Research Assistant Professor: fish stock assessment,mathematical modeling
Andrew Bakun,Professor:Climate and fisheries,ocean processes regulating marine population dynamics
Larry E. Brand, Professor: physiology, ecology and evolution of phytoplankton
Robert Cowen, Professor,Maytag Chair and Division Chairman: larval fish ecology, physical/biological interactions
Douglas L. Crawford,Associate Professor:Genomics
David J. Die,Research Associate Prodessor: fisheries management,fish stock assessment,bio economics
Nelson Ehrhardt, Professor: fishery research and management; population analysis and modeling
Lynne A. Fieber, Associate Professor: electrophysiology of marine organisms
Jack W. Fell, Professor: mangrove and marshland ecology; microbial processes; fungi; genetics of marine-occurring yeasts
Peter W. Glynn, Professor: coral reef biology; disturbance ecology
Martin Grosell,Research Assistant Professor:Toxicology and physiology of fish
Samuel H. Gruber, Professor: behavioral ecology and sensory physiology of marine vertebrates; biology of sharks
Gary Hitchcock, Associate Professor: phytoplankton ecology
McManus, John, Professor: coral reef ecology
Arthur A. Myrberg Jr., Professor,Emeritus: animal behavior; behavioral ecology of fishes; underwater bioacoustics
Ellen K. Pikitch,Professor:fish population and dynamics,fisheries management
Michael C. Schmale, Associate Professor: fish pathology; carcinogenesis and immunology; population ecology of fishes
Joseph Serafy,Research Assistant Professor:fish ecology,ecology of pelagic and coral reef fishes
Sharon L. Smith, Professor: ecology of zooplankton; nutrient cycling; upwelling ecosystems; high latitude ecosystems; population dynamics of zooplankton; and secondary productivity
Su Sponaugle, Research Assistant Professor: larval invertebrate ecology, physical/biological interactions
Gary Thomas,Professor:fishery ecology,coastal marine ecosystems,hydroacoustics
Nancy A. Voss, Research Professor:systematics, biology, biogeography, and phylogeny of pelagic cephalopods
Patrick J. Walsh, Professor: biochemistry; population genetics; physiology
Alexandra Z. Worden,Assistant Professor:marine microbialecology,carbon cycling anf trophic transfer

MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS

Faulk Amelung,Assitant Professor:remote sensing,satelite radar interferometry, volcanology and ecotectonics
Keir Becker, Professor: heat flow and hydrothermal circulation in the ocean crust; physical properties of oceanic crust, seafloor and borehole hydrogeological observatories
Patricia Blackwelder,Dorector Electron Microscope Facility(RSMAS),Associate Professor(NOVA University);biomineralization in invertebrates
Jacqueline Dixon, Associate Professor:geochemistry, ingeous petrology, volatiles in magmas
Timothy Dixon, Professor: geodetic techniques, global positioning system, neotectonic problems in the Andes, Caribbean, and Gulf of California
Gregor Eberli, Professor and Chairman: seismic stratigraphy, carbonate platform evolution and architecture, basin analysis, petrophysics of carbonate
Robert Ginsburg, Professor: marine geology, comparative sedimentology of reefs and platform carbonates, sedimentary geology
Mark P. Grasmueck, Assitant Professor: applied geophysics, reflecion seismic, ground penetrating radar, 3-d marine geology and reservoir characterization, visualization
Christopher Harrison, Professor: magnetic data analysis; sea level changes; space geodesy; remote sensing; plate tectonics
James Natland, Professor: ingenious petrology, marine geology, composition and origin of ocean crust
Larry C. Peterson, Associate Professor: paleoceanography; micropaleontology; deep sea sedimentation processes
Eugene Rankey, Assitant Professor: marine and coatal processes and geomorphology,sedimantary geology, remote sensing, GIS;complex systems
Pamela Reid, Associate Professor: carbonate sedimentation and diagenesis;geomicrobiology, coastal zone remote sensing and optical properties of sedimants
Peter Swart, Professor:environmental geochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry;carbonate diagenesis,hydrology,sedimentology and petrology

METEOROLOGY AND PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Bruce Albrecht, Professor: cloud-climate interactions, boundary layer structure and processes
Lisa Beal, Research Assitant professor:oncean transports and property fluxes, physics of western boundary currents, interaction of flow with topography, lowered acoustic velocity profiling techniques
MichaelBrown,Professor(primaray appointment with AMP) ocean acoustics,lagrangian ocean dynamics,surface wave dynamics,low-order climate models
Otis B. Brown, Professor and Dean: satellite oceanography, remote sensing applications
Eric Chassignet, Associate Professor: numerical ocean modeling, geophysical fluid dynamics, mesoscale phenomena
Shuyi Chen, Associate Professor: mesoscale and tropical meteorology, atmospheric convection,tropical cyclones,coupledatmospheric-wave-ocean modeling
T. Michael Chin, Research Assistant Professor: data assimilation and interpolation, statistical and multi-scale charcaterizations of space-time processes
Amy Clement, Assitant Professor: climate modeling, paleoclimete, tropical ocean atmosphere interactions
Mark Donelan, Professor(primary appointment with AMP): air-sea interaction, boundary layer turbulance, surface wave dynamics, gad transfer, microwave remote sensing
Robert H. Evans, Research Professor: satellite oceanography, remote sensing applications, systems design
Hans Grabar,Professor(primaray appointment with AMP): surface wave dynamics,microwave remote sensing of ocean processes,air-sea interaction and boundary-layer dynamics
Annalisa Griffa, Associate Professor: geophysical fluid dynamics, numerical ocean modeling, Lagrangian observing systems
George Halliwell, Research Assistant Professor: ocean m odeling, mesoscale processes, ocean climate
Mohamed Iskandarani, Research Associate Professor: simulation of ocean flows, spectral element modeling
William Johns, Professor and Chariman: ocean dynamic, boundary current and mesoscale processes, marginal seas and straits
Edward Kearns, Research Assistant Professor:satelite oceanography,ocean circulation dynamics, oceanographic istrumentation and data systems
Kevin D. Leaman, Professor: current profiling and lagrangian observation techniques, western boundary currents, ocean dynamics
Thomas N. Lee, Research Professor: shelf dynamics, mesoscale eddies, interdisciplinary studies, western boundary currents
Roger Lhermitte, Professor Emeritus: radar meteorology, remote sensing,, thunderstorm electrification
Sharanya Majumdar, Research Assitant Professor: targeted observations, data assimilation, ensemble forecasting, winter storms, tropical cyclones, coastal ocean prediction
Arthur J. Mariano, Associate Professor: data analysis and assimilation techniques, mesoscale ocean dynamics, Lagrangian ocean descriptions
Peter Minnett, Research Professor: satellite remote sensing, air-sea interaction,arctic studies
Christopher Mooers, Professor, (secondary appointment with AMP)coastal ocean circulation dynamics,coastal ocean predication,evaluation of models and ocean observing networks,numerical simulation of marginal and semi-enclosed seas
David Nolan, Research Assistant Professor:dynamic meteorology,tropical cyclones,vortex dynamics,numerical modeling
Donald B. Olson, Professor: ocean circulation dynamics, mesoscale phenomena, ecosystem dynamics
Tamay Ozgokmen, Assosicate Professor:numerical modeling of mesoscale oceanic processes,small-scale mixing and lagrangian motion
Hartmut Peters, Research Associate Professor: in-situ observations of turbulent mixing in oceans and coastal waters, turbulance models,estuarine,shelf and marginal sea processes
Guillermo P. Podesta, Research Associate Professor: satellite oceanogrophy,remote sensing applications,climate and society
Claes G. H. Rooth, Professor: large-scale ocean transport processes, climate dynamics, ocean-atmosphere interaction
Lynn K. Shay, upper ocean processes,air-sea interactions during tropical cyclones,aircraft-based ocean measurements,coastal ocean dynamics,radar remote sensing of oceanographic phemomena
John C. Van Leer, Associate Professor: instrument development, upper ocean dynamics, Arctic oceanography, coastal oceanography
Chi Dong Zhang, Associate Professor: large-scale ocean-atmosphere interaction and atmospheric dynamics in the tropics,tropical climate