Tenure-track Faculty
Professor; Interim Executive Director, EOS Center
UCLA (Ph.D.), San Diego State (M.S.), University of Maryland, College Park (B.S.)
Jaime Chaves (He/Him/His)
Associate Professor
UCLA (Ph.D), San Francisco State University (M.S.), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (B.S.)
Robyn Crook (She/Her/Hers)
Associate Professor, Associate Dept. Chair
Ph.D. City University of New York
Carmen Domingo (She/Her/Hers)
Dean of the College of Science and Engineering, Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Megumi Fuse (She/Her/Hers)
Professor; Director of SEO
Ph.D. University of Toronto; Program Director of the NIH Bridge to Doctorate program, BMS BE-STEM Scholars Program, VIR Biotechnology Scholars Program
Jonathon Stillman (He/Him/His)
Professor and Chair of HRTP (Hiring, Retention, Tenure, Promotion)
Ph.D. Oregon State University
Vance Thomas Vredenburg (He/Him/His)
Department Chair/Professor
Ph.D. University of California Berkeley
Frances Wilkerson (She/Her/Hers)
Estuary and Ocean Science Center Research Professor
University of Bristol
Instructional Faculty
Meet our outstanding, highly-trained instructional faculty.
- Roger Bland; Underwater acoustics
- Edward Carpenter; Microbial ecology
- Andy Chang; Marine invasions and intertidal ecology
- Richard Dugdale; Biological oceanography and biogeochemical cycling
- Matt Ferner; Marine benthic ecology
- Julie Gonzalez; Applied coastal ecology and socioecological integration
- Ellen Hines; Marine and coastal GIS and marine endangered species
- Jaime Jahncke; Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
- Sean Jungbluth; Environmental genomics and systems biology
- Michelle Jungbluth; Biological oceanography and molecular biology
- Wim Kimmerer; Biological oceanography
- Stuart Siegel; Wetland geography and spatial planning
- Anne Simonis; Acoustic ecology
- Tomoko Komada; Marine biogeochemistry
- Stuart Siegel; Wetland geography and spatial planning
- Frances Wilkerson; Marine biology and biological oceanography
- Chela Zabin; Coastal ecology and restoration
- Rebecca Albright, Invertebrate Zoology, Research Focus: Corals
- Rayna Bell, Herpetology, Research Focus: Amphibians and Reptiles
- Shannon Bennett, Microbiology, Research Focus: Virology
- Pim Bongaerts, Invertebrate Zoology, Research Focus: Mesophotic corals
- Jack Dumbacher, Ornithology & Mammology, Research Focus: Aves; (Jack Dumbacher Website)
- Lauren Esposito, Entomology; Research Focus: Arachnology (Lauren Esposito Website)
- Brian Fisher, Entomology; Research Focus: Myrmecology
- Terrence Gosliner; Invertebrate Zoology, Research Focus: Malacology
- Alison Gould; Ichthyology, Research Focus: Marine Bioluminescence (Alison Gould Website)
- Sarah Jacobs; Botany; Research Focus: Plant speciation and systematics
- Rebecca Johnson; Biodiversity & Community Science; Research Focus: Biodiversity and Community Science
- Durrell Kapan; Entomology/O&M; Research Focus: Conservation Genomics (Xerces), Biodiversity & Resilience (Sierra Forests)
- Elora Lopez-Nandam; Invertebrate Zoology; Research Focus: Evolution of resilience (Elora Lopez-Nandam Website)
- Richard Mooi; Invertebrate Zoology; Research Focus: Echinoidea (extant & fossil), deep-sea biodiversity
- Luiz Rocha; Ichthyology; Research Focus: Mesophotic reef fishes
- Peter Roopnarine; Geology; Research Focus: Mesophotic reef fishes
- Bart Shepherd; Ichthyology; Research Focus: Aquatic biology
- Brian Simison; Genomics; Research Focus: Genomics, Phylogenetics
- Michelle Trautwein; Entomology; Research Focus: Diptera
- Shannon Tushingham; Anthropology; Research Focus: Anthropological archaeology, niche construction & cultural evolution
- Matt Van Dam; Entomology; Research Focus: Curculionidae, Systematics, Genomics
- Gary Williams; Invertebrate Zoology; Research Focus: Octocoral Systematics, Deep-Sea Biology
- Noelle Anderson
- Chelsea Andreozzi
- Hilary Benton
- Aritra Bhattacharyya
- Jessica Bolivar
- Betsabel Chicana
- Gopal Dayaneni
- Laurence Frabotta
- Holly Harris
- Stephen Ingalls
- Peter Ingmire
- Torey Jaques
- Jonathan Knight
- Candace Low
- Chuanyi Lu
- Bellal Naderi
- Julia Norquist
- Tania Pollak
- Erica Pulley
- Julio Ramirez
- Leroy Robinson
- Jane Rudebusch
- Anne Simonis
- Trenton Stewart
- Leslie Timpe
- Emily Wong
- Brennan Wrenk
- Michael Yee