castro@al.umces.edu
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Atmosphere-biosphere interactions, greenhouse gas fluxes, global environmental changes, effects of atmospheric deposition and human activities on nutrient dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems, the composition of the atmosphere

aelmore@al.umces.edu
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Land use and land cover change; ecohydrology; biogeochemistry; remote sensing and spatial analysis

kengelhardt@al.umces.edu
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Effects of species richness on wetland ecosystem functioning and services; community ecology and ecosystem ecology

eshleman@al.umces.edu
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Watershed and wetlands hydrology; groundwater/surface water interactions; biogeochemical processes in upland and wetland ecosystems; hydrochemical modeling; ecosystem interactions with land use change

gardner@al.umces.edu
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Landscape ecology; systems analysis; approaches for predicting ecological dynamics in spatially heterogeneous systems; analysis and prediction of changes in ecosystem dynamics with changes in scale

gates@al.umces.edu
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Wildlife, habitatd and landscape ecology; habitat fragmentation and alteration, connectivity, edge effects and boundary dynamics; habitat suitability for vertebrate species

hilderbrand@al.umces.edu
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Ecology and conservation biology of running waters; watershed and stream habitat restoration; linking landscapes and populations; dynamic modeling of watersheds

hoogland@al.umces.edu
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Behavioral ecology of birds and mammals; demography, mating systems, levels of inbreeding, infanticide and coloniality

tlookingbill@al.umces.edu
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Forest community ecology; climate change; spatial analysis and landscape scaling; ecosystem-based adaptive management; ecohydrological modeling; urban ecology

mckaye@al.umces.edu
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Fisheries science and management; behavioral ecology and evolution of cooperative behavior; tropical biology; mechanisms of speciation

pitelka@al.umces.edu
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Plant ecology; global change issues; effects of atmospheric deposition, elevated CO2, and climate change on natural ecosystems; population ecology of perennial herbs

cat@al.umces.edu
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Environmental science education and scientific inquiry in precollege classrooms; remote sensing and plant ecophysiology


anderson@cbl.umces.edu
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Comparative immunology and immunotoxicology of marine organisms; immunological basis of disease susceptibility and resistance

boynton@cbl.umces.edu
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Coastal marine ecology, emphasizing nutrient processes at the sediment-water interface; ecosystem scale and modeling; eutrophication; food web dynamics

harris@cbl.umces.edu
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Systems ecology; theoretical ecology; primary producers from phytoplankton to macrophytes; ecosystem modeling

harvey@cbl.umces.edu
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Organic geochemistry and biogeochemistry; sources and fate of organic compounds in aquatic environments; cycling of lipids through the marine food web

ehoude@cbl.umces.edu
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Fisheries science and management; recruitment mechanisms; effects of environment on reproductive success of fishes; ecology of marine and estuarine fishes, especially early-life stages

kaushal@cbl.umces.edu
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Biogeochemistry, fate and transport of pollutants, limnology, microbial ecology, organic geochemistry and environmental history

dking@cbl.umces.edu
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Integration of environmental and economic research; economics of ecological restoration and mitigation; market and non-market valuation of natural resources

marinelli@cbl.umces.edu
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Sedimentary ecology; analytical and numerical modeling of benthic and water column dynamics; animal-sediment interactions; infaunal recruitment;benthic primary production; continental margin processes

miller@cbl.umces.edu
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Recruitment and population dynamics of aquatic animals; fish early life history; feeding and bio-physical interactions; aquatic ecology; blue crabs

mitchelmore@cbl.umces.edu
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Investigating molecular, biochemical and cellular responses of aquatic organisms to inorganic and organic pollutants; determining species-specificity; biochemical pathways and toxic effects; applying and developing novel biomarkers to existing and emerging environmental problems

palmer@cbl.umces.edu
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Stream community and ecosystems ecology; restoration ecology; stream ecosystem structure and function; influence of land use, hydrology and geomorphology on health of running-water ecosystems

rowe@cbl.umces.edu
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Physiological ecology of aquatic vertebrates and invertebrates chronically exposed to sublethal concentrations of contaminants

schijf@cbl.umces.edu
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Chemical oceanography; physical chemistry; aqueous geochemistry of trace metals; geochemistry of marine anoxic basins; inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry; ion chromatography; sychrotron X-ray spectrometry; deep-water oceanographic sensors and instrumentation

secor@cbl.umces.edu
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Fish ecology; fish life history and migration studies; fisheries stock enhancement; migration and habitat use as behaviors controlling and regulating population dynamics

suzuki@cbl.umces.edu
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Marine microbial ecology; application of molecular approaches to the study of aquatic microbes; quantification of gene abundance/expression; molecular phylogenetics; environmental genomics

tamburri@cbl.umces.edu
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Coastal sensor and sensor platform development; chemical ecology of marine organisms; ecosystem monitoring and marine convervation

ulan@cbl.umces.edu
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Network analysis of trophic exchanges in ecosystems; information theory applied to ecological systems; thermodynamics of living systems; causality in living systems; modeling subtropical wetland ecosystems

wainger@cbl.umces.edu
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Risk analysis and decision support tools for prioritizing natural resource management options; invasive species risk assessment; wetland restoration prioritization; ecological and economic indicators for communicating relative costs and benefits of natural resource change

wilberg@cbl.umces.edu
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Stock assessment; dynamics of exploited populations; harvest policy development and application; statistical model selection and averaging

wright@cbl.umces.edu
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Ionic regulation in estuarine animals; bioaccumulation of trace metals; risk assessment; effects of UV light on aquatic organisms; physical/chemical anti-fouling strategies


boesch@ca.umces.edu
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Use of science in environmental policy & management, particularly related to understanding the causes of and solutions to coastal eutrophication

boicourt@hpl.umces.edu
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Physical oceanography of shallow waters, estuaries, river plumes; remote sensing and autonomous samplers; physical-biological interactions and food web dynamics

chao@hpl.umces.edu
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Physical oceanography; continental shelf processes; western boundary currents dynamics; lower atmosphere circulations; estuarine circulations; numerical modelling of mesoscale processes in the ocean

codispot@hpl.umces.edu
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Chemical oceanography; oceanic nitrogen and carbon cycling; descriptive physical oceanography; chemical instrumentation; nutrient budgets; the Arctic Ocean; processes that influence the flux of nitrous oxide

vcoles@hpl.umces.edu
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Physical and biological response and feedbacks to climate variability and change; Observation and modeling of ocean circulation and ventilation, biogeochemical tracer, and ecosystem cycling

cornwell@hpl.umces.edu
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Sediment biogeochemistry; burial of sediment and associated chemical constituents; nutrient exchange in sediment; influence of tidal marshes on ecosystem N and P balances

bcrump@hpl.umces.edu
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Microbial ecology; bacterial and archeal diversity; organic matter and nutrient cycling; composition and development of microbial communities; influence of hydrodynamics and particle cycling on microbial activity

dennison@ca.umces.edu
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Coastal ecosystem ecology; ecophysiology of marine plants; bioindicators in nearshore environments; assessing ecosystem health

fisher@hpl.umces.edu
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Nutrient inputs, cycling and primary production of aquatic systems; plankton-based systems in estuaries and the Amazon river floodplain

glibert@hpl.umces.edu
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Transformations and fate of nitrogen in marine and estuarine systems; ecology of phytoplanktons; effects of eutrophication; growth and physiology of harmful algal bloom species

larry@hpl.umces.edu
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Biological oceanography; physiology and ecology of marine phytoplankton; seasonal and inter-annual variability of chlorophyll and primary productivity in estuarine and coastal waters; satellite remote sensing

raleigh@hpl.umces.edu
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Phytoplankton production and light response, modeling of primary production and pelagic ecosystems, phytoplankton physiology, bio-optical oceanography

kana@hpl.umces.edu
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Biological oceanography; algal and plant physiological ecology; regulation of photosynthesis and respiration; oxygen cycling in marine systems; application sof mass spectrometry

kemp@hpl.umces.edu
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Coastal marine ecology; net community production; nutrient cycling; physical-biological coupling; benthic-pelagic interactions; ecosystem analysis; numerical models

kennedy@hpl.umces.edu
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Reproduction and larval behavior and ecology of bivalves; crab and fish foraging behavior; ecology and dynamics of littoral and sublittoral benthic communities; global climate change

dkimmel@hpl.umces.edu
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Zooplankton ecology in estuaries and coastal ecosystems, zooplankton physiology, quantitative ecology and climate impacts on ecosystems

koch@hpl.umces.edu
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Hydrodynamically-mediated processes in communities of aquatic plants; impact of global changes on coastal plant communities

alazur@hpl.umces.edu
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Food and baitfish culture; integration of aquaculture with agriculture for nutrient reduction; effluent and water quality management; marketing and economic evaluation of alternative aquaculture species; fish restoration

mingli@hpl.umces.edu
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Physical oceanography, estuarine/coastal circulations; upper-ocean dynamics; turbulant mixing processes, biological/physical interactions

malone@hpl.umces.edu
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Dynamics of marine ecosystems; phytoplankton ecology; coastal eutrophication

meritt@hpl.umces.edu
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Oyster aquaculture and restoration

murray@hpl.umces.edu
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Wetlands ecology, nutrient and pore water chemistry dynamics of submerged aquatic vegetation, nutrient retention by wetlands, wetland plant ecology

rnewell@hpl.umces.edu
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Marine ecology and physiology; adaptive physiology of aquatic invertebrates

enorth@hpl.umces.edu
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Biological-physical interactions: hydrodynamic and particle trajectory modeling, ichthyoplankton and zooplankton ecology, estuarine physical oceanography, fisheries recruitement variability

joneil@hpl.umces.edu
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Cyanobacteria ecophysiology and plankton trophodynamics

cpalinkas@hpl.umces.edu
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Continental-margin sedimentation; formation and preservation of sedimentary strata in the geological record; deposition and accumulation of fluvial sediment in the coastal ocean

roman@hpl.umces.edu
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Biological oceanography; zooplankton ecology

lsanford@hpl.umces.edu
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Coastal and esturaine physical oceanography; fine sediment transport mechanics, geophysical boundary layers, turbulence, surface and internal waves

court@hpl.umces.edu
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Coastal zone resources and water quality management; ecology of marsh and sea grass systems; effects of sea-level rise on wetlands and coastal shorelines; environmental history of Chesapeake Bay and its watershed

stoecker@hpl.umces.edu
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Ecology and physiology of marine ciliates an dinoflagellates; mixotrophy in the plankton; microbial food web interactions