Marine Biology Graduate Faculty

Marine Biology Graduate Faculty

Graduate Faculty

Galveston (TAMUG) | College Station (TAMU) | Corpus Christi (TAMUCC)

Galveston Faculty

	Jaime Alvarado-Bremer Associate Professor MARB Email Profile	Conservation and population genetics of aquatic organisms with emphasis on large pelagic fishes; molecular systematics and phylogenetics and biogeography of fishes.
	Rainer Amon Associate Professor MARS Email Profile Website	Biogeochemical fluxes of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the Arctic Ocean Land - ocean transport of carbon and nitrogen in light of environmental change in the Arctic Identification of the chemical composition of DOM and its use as a tracer for water masses.
	Ayal Anis Associate Professor MARS Email Profile Website	Mixing processes and turbulence in the surface and bottom boundary layers in the oceans and lakes. Physical Oceanography of coastal regions. Model-aided analysis of the response of lakes/coastal ocean to external forcing.
	Anna Armitage Associate Professor MARB Email Profile Website	Coastal and wetlands community ecology in salt marshes, tidal mudflats, and seagrass beds, with particular focus on changes in trophic structure following habitat restoration, nutrient enrichment, and other human disturbances.
	Robin Brinkmeyer Assistant Professor MARS Email Profile Website	Molecular microbial ecology; Molecular systematics and phylogeny of prokaryotes; Biogeography of prokaryotic populations; Role of bacteria in biogeochemical processes.
	Samuel Brody Professor MARS Email Profile Website	Coastal environmental planning, natural hazards mitigation, spatial analysis, dispute resolution.
	Randall Davis Regents Professor MARB Email Profile	Physiology & behavior of marine birds and mammals, especially species inhabiting polar waters.
	Wesley Highfield Assistant Professor MARS Email Profile Website	GIS, Spatial Analysis/Statistics, Natural Hazard Mitigation & Policy, Environmental Planning & Policy
	Thomas Iliffe Professor MARB Email Profile Website	Biodiversity, evolution and conservation of animals inhabiting marine caves; application of scientific and technical diving to provide access to otherwise inaccessible portions of extensive cave systems.
	Glenn Jones Professor MARS Email Profile	Paleoceanography, Arctic Ocean, climate change, Black Sea, and accelerator mass spectrometry and radiocarbon dating
	Susan Knock Senior Lecturer MARS Email Profile	Coastal Marine and Aquatic Birds.
	Thomas Linton Senior Lecturer MARS Email Profile	Resource management.
	Hui Liu Assistant Professor MARB Email Profile	Zooplankton processes in the ocean, population dynamics and interactions of marine fishes, quantitative fisheries research, statistical and numerical ecosystem modeling.
	Patrick Louchouarn Professor MARS - Dept. Head Email Profile Website	Impact of watershed disturbance on cycling of trace metals and organic matter. Tracers of combustion byproducts in environmental media. Biogeochemical cycling of organic matter in soils and aquatic environments. Development and direction of cross disciplinary curricula within the context of university core science courses and environmental studies programs.
	Christopher Marshall Associate Professor MARB Email Profile Website	Research interests focus on the function and evolution of vertebrate feeding and digestive systems, the musculoskeletal sys-tem, and associated sensory and neurobiology
	Antonietta Quigg Associate Professor MARB - Assist. Dept. Head Email Profile Website	Impact of trace metal and nutrient enrichments, cycling and dynamics on physiology, primary productivity and community composition in coastal ecosystems.
	Sammy Ray Professor Emeritis MARB Email Profile	Marine biology, oyster biology, oyster aquaculture and hatcheries invertebrate pathology, environmental impact assessment and coastal zone management.
	Kimberly Reich Assistant Research Scientist MARB Email Profile	Sea turtle biology and conservation, nutritional ecology and stable isotope analyses; sea turtle life history including habitat use, foraging strategies, ontogenetic shifts, and migratory pathways.
	Jay Rooker Professor Endowed Chair MARB Email Profile Website	Ecology of estuarine, coastal, and pelagic fishes. Recruitment processes, particularly factors affecting post-settlement survival. Fish life history and migration studies. Analytical approaches to fish demography.
	Gilbert Rowe Regents Professor MARB Email Profile Website	Benthic ecology, ecosystem function and structure. Carbon and nitrogen cycles, food chain models. Environmental quality and sustainable development.
	Peter Santschi Regents Professor MARS Email Profile Website	Marine geochemistry, radiochemistry.
	Anja Schulze Associate Professor MARB Email Profile Website	Phylogeny and population genetics of polychaete and sipunculan worms. Reproduction and development of marine invertebrates. Evolution of hydrothermal vent and cold seep fauna.
	John Schwarz Professor MARB - Dept. Head Email Profile Website	All aspects of seafood micro-biology. Association of bacterial pathogens with shellfish and devising experimental methodologies to provide the consumer with a safer food product.
	William Seitz Regents Professor MARS Email Profile	Complexity Theory, Computer modeling of estuarine circulation, Analysis of beach erosion mitigation policies, Geographic Information System Modeling.
	Wyndylyn von Zharen Regents Professor MARS Email Profile Website	Marine fisheries management; marine environmental policy and law; anthropogenic stressors on marine ecosystems.
	David Wells Assistant Professor MARB Email Profile Website	Biology and ecology of bony fishes, sharks, and rays.Research focus on life history, habitat use, movement, and feeding ecology of marine fish species; including estuarine, shelf, and offshore pelagic fishes.
	Bernd Würsig Regents Professor MARB Email Profile Website	Long-term studies of the behavioral ecology of dolphins, porpoises and whales. Elucidating differences of foraging techniques in different environments. Flexibilities of adaptation in social marine mammals and in social animals in general.

College Station Faculty


	Jack Baldauf Professor OCNG Email Website	Paleoceanography, Micropaleontology, Biochronology.
	Joseph Bernardo Research Associate Professor BIOL Email Website	determinants of range size and position • biodiversity conservation in the face of climate change • detection, and ecological and conservation implications of cryptic speciation and diversity • vertebrate ecology and life history • biology of amphibians and reptiles • speciation and evolution of reproductive isolation • evolutionary ecology of body size • clinal variation in life history and physiological traits • comparative animal physiology and physiological ecology
	Douglas Biggs Professor OCNG Email Website	Physical and biological habitat use by sperm whales and other apex predators in the Gulf of Mexico; Biogeochemical processes in Gulf of Mexico mesoscale eddies; Zooplankton stock estimation from ADCP backscatter intensity.
	Lisa Campbell Professor OCNG Email Website	Phytoplankton ecology, Phytoplankton community structure and diversity, Harmful Algal Blooms: Karenia brevis in coastal Texas waters, Picoplankton diversity, Flow cytometry and in situ imaging.
	Kevin Conway Assistant Professor WFSC Email Website	Ichthyology, systematics and comparative morphology of teleost fishes
	Masami Fujiwara Assistant Professor WFSC Email Website	Population Dynamics, Statistical Ecology & Mathematical Ecology.
	Delbert Gatlin III Professor WFSC Email Website	Mariculture and food quality.
	Fran Gelwick Associate Professor WFSC Email Website	Ecology and behavior of fishes as well as other aquatic and semi-aquatic organisms, in both marine and freshwater ecosystems. This includes the response of fishes to direct and indirect effects of biotic (including human) and abiotic factors that are both internal and external to the system, and across a range of spatial and temporal scales.
	John Gold Regents and Cintron Professor WFSC Email Website	Organization and evolution of fish genomes, and in part towards using genetic molecules to resolve both basic and applied problems involving fish species. Choice of organisms is based on biological diversity, evolutionary heterogeneity, and economic importance, as well as the opportunities to work in the field and interact with the organisms in their natural ecologies.
	William Grant Professor WFSC Email	Ecosystem and food web modeling.
	Luis Hurtado Assistant Professor WFSC Email	Population/conservation genetics, molecular systematics and evolution, evolutionary biology, phylogeography, hydrothermal vent biology, genomics.
	George Jackson Professor OCNG Email Website	Biological-chemical-physical modeling, Coagulation processes/particle dynamics, Marine pollution, Small-scale processes, Coastal ecosystems.
	Adam Jones Associate Professor BIOL Email Website	Evolutionary genetics, including molecular ecology, sexual selection, quantitative genetics, and molecular evolution.
	Addison Lawrence Professor WFSC Email	Shrimp culture including nutrition and feeds development.
	Duncan MacKenzie Associate Professor BIOL Email Website	Comparative endocrinology of reproduction and thyroid function in fish, amphibians, and reptiles.
	Heath Mills Assistant Professor OCNG Email Website	Molecular characterization of microbial community structure and function, Deep subsurface life exploration, Nitrogen cycling in marine system prokaryote populations: nosZ and amoA gene targets, Iron and sulfate reducing prokaryote competition in salt marsh sediment: gltA and dsrA gene targets, Bioremediation of radionuclide contaminated sediments.
	Miguel Mora Professor WFSC Email Website	Wildlife ecotoxicology, with emphasis on avian ecotoxicology. Research involves the use of biochemical, ecological, and analytical chemistry techniques, among the most common tools.
	Jane Packard Associate Professor WFSC Email Website	Our research team is collaborating with partners at the Houston Advanced Research Center and University of Maryland. In a study funded by USDA, we are studying cultural models of land conservation. In a complementary study funded by NSF, we are looking in more depth at how cultural models influence practice of Land Trusts at local, regional and national scales of biocomplexity.
	Pamela Plotkin Director, Texas Sea Grant College Program Associate Research Professor OCNG Email Website	Adaptive significance of the alternative reproductive tactics of the olive ridley sea turtle; impact of environmental change on sea turtle behavior; protected species management; applying behavioral research to the conservation of wild populations.
	Daniel Roelke Professor WFSC Email Website	Research in the Roelke lab encompasses field studies, laboratory experiments, and mathematical modeling simulations that address lower foodweb ecology in aquatic ecosystems. Emphasis is placed on interactions between foodweb components and the physicochemical environment.
	Gil Rosenthal Associate Professor BIOL Email Website	Evolution/behavior of fishes.
	Tzachi Samocha Professor WFSC Email Website	Shrimp Mariculture.
	Dan Thornton Associate Professor OCNG Email Website	Carbon and nitrogen cycling in coastal ecosystems: Biology of exopolymer (EPS) production; Diatom ecology and physiology; Ecology of microphytobenthos; Nitrogen cycling in sediments; Biological production of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide; Estuarine ecology.
	Mary Wicksten Professor BIOL Email Website	Crustacean taxonomy and behavior, general invertebrate biology.
	Kirk Winemiller Regents Professor WFSC Email Website	Fisheries ecology and food webs.
	John Wormuth Professor OCNG Email Website	Faunal characterization of sperm whale feeding areas in the Gulf of Mexico, Annual variability of zooplankton (and krill) in the Antarctic, Geographic variations in diel vertical migrations in pteropods, copepods and cephalopods, Geographical distributions and taxonomy of cephalopod.

Corpus Christi Faculty

	Kirk Cammarata Associate Professor Email Website	Seagrass physiology and response to ecological stress, seagrass-microbe associations, seagrass-epiphyte interactions.
	Andreas Fahlman Assistant Professor Email Website	Diving physiology in marine mammals, sea birds and turtles.
	Joe Fox Professor Email Website	Nutrition of aquatic organisms; nutritional ecology; nutrient essentiality, digestibility and the physiological ecology of aquatic organisms; fish meal replacement in aquatic feeds, chemoattraction, sea urchin nutrition, and ecology of penaeid shrimp viruses; depuration of oysters against Vibrio vulnificus.
	Graham Hickman Professor Email Website	Ecological, Behavioral, and Biogeographical studies, predominantly in Vertebrate Biology (Ichthyology, Herpetology, Ornithology, and Mammalogy).
	Derek Hogan Assistant Professor Email Website	Marine connectivity; larval dispersal; population ecology; population genetics
	Patrick Larkin Assistant Professor Email Website	Molecular and chemical ecology of native plant species, in particular their interaction with their environment and response to habitat fragmentation. It includes both specific events, such as the effect of temperature on the expression of allelic variants of a single enzyme (Granule Bound Starch Synthase) and broader events, such as the genetic relationships among populations in fragmented habitats.
	Roy Lehman Professor Email Website	Biofuels from Algae, Distribution and Ecology of Benthic Marine Algae; Ecology; Natural and Man-Made Hazard Mitigation; Systematics; Harmful Algal Blooms; Invasive Species; Biochemistry and Molecular Structure and Function; Biological Oceanography.
	David McKee Professor Email Website	Mariculture, Marine Ecology, Fisheries.
	Paul Montagna Professor Endowed Chair Email Website	Ecosystem studies with a focus on benthic components, freshwater resources, water quality, ecosystem modeling, and environmental statistics; and integrating natural science with human dimensions research.
	Riccardo Mozzachiodi Associate Professor Email Website	Neurobiology; biological basis of learning and memory; behavior.
	Frank Pezold III Professor Dean Email Website	Fish systematics, diversity, and conservation; emphasis on gobioid fishes.
	Jennifer Pollack Assistant Professor Email Website	Field research experience in temperate salt marsh creeks, semi-arid estuaries, and polar regions
	Lee Smee Assistant Professor Email Website	Marine Ecology, Animal Behavior, Chemical and Sensory Ecology, Fluid Mechanics and Chemical Signaling in Aquatic Environments.
	Greg Stunz Professor Endowed Chair Email Website	Marine Ecology, Marine Fisheries.
	Michael Wetz Assistant Professor Email Website	Ecology and physiology of estuarine/coastal plankton
	Kim Withers Associate Research Scientist Email Website	Tidal Flat Ecology; Ornithology; Marine Benthic Ecology; Aquatic Entomology.