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Bioacoustics, instrumentation
for remote sensing, dynamics of ocean and estuary circulation, development of novel methods of data collection and measurement in several areas of science |
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Understanding chiral separations with amino acid based surfactants; distribution, fate and effect of endocrine disruptors in the environment; environmental chemistry |
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Understanding chiral separations with amino acid based surfactants; distribution, fate and effect of endocrine disruptors in the environment |
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Plant responses to contaminated environments using molecular, biochemical and genomics techniques; Phytoremediation; Molecular characterization of epiphytic biofilms on seagrasses; Seagrass stress responses |
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Marine Ecotoxicology; Ecological Indicators; Harmful Algal Blooms; Hypoxia; Oil and Gas Development; Pollution |
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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. |
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Coastal geology using topographic Lidar, remote sensing, GIS, and field surveys to measure and understand coastal change. |
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Ecological, Behavioral, and Biogeographical studies, predominantly in Vertebrate Biology (Ichthyology, Herpetology, Ornithology, and Mammalogy) |
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Collection and analysis of land and geospatial data and
information to formulate policy and programs that result in sound
environmental and economically viable resource management and development |
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Biochemistry, molecular
ecology of marine plants |
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Phycology, marine ecology,
bioremediation. Distribution and ecology of seagrass and seaweed communities along the Texas coast, coral reefs of the southwestern Gulf of Mexico and Yucatan Peninsula, systematic and molecular botany of green algae (Chlorophyta; Caulerpa sp.), water quality studies of non-point source pollution using molecular and microbiological techniques, Vascular plants of the south Texas region |
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Biological oceanography,
Deep-sea ecology, Submersible engineering, Biogeography of oil and gas seeps on continental margins, Geology and geochemistry of submarine gas hydrates, Imaging and remote sensing, Ocean observation, Long-term monitoring of coral reef communities |
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Coastal ecology, ichthyology, mariculture, marine
mammals |
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Marine Policy and Law |
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Physical oceanography, oceanographic remote sensing, air-sea fluxes, atmospheric moisture transport, role of the ocean in climate, and multivariate statistical analysis |
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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. |
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Environmental and public health microbiology. Water quality of
recreational (beaches) and other surface waters. Nutrient cycling. Microbial source
tracking of fecal contamination. Antibiotic resistance of fecal bacteria
in the environment. Ecology and characteristics of pathogens in coastal
waters e.g. Vibrio vulnificus |
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Geology and geochemistry of hydrocarbon seeps along continental margins; fluid and sediment geochemistry with emphasis on gas hydrate-bearing sediments |
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Ecotoxicology & Marine Pollution |
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Population genetics of marine organisms, evolutionary genetics of
invasive plants, population and conservation genetics of native plants,
and theoretical population genetics |
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Fish diversity, systematics,
ecology and conservation |
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Mathematical and Statistical Modeling and their Applications to Environmental, Coastal, Marine, and Earth Sciences and Systems |
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Marine ecology, biodiversity, deep-sea benthos, biology of sea mounts, crab biology, meiofauna, priapulid systematics |
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Organic geochemistry: Climate and environmental change and Differences in organic geochemical practices, Biogeochemistry, Environmental chemistry |
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Ecology, Animal Behavior (with focus on chemical signaling in aquatic systems), Marine Biology |
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Coastal Ecology and Resource Management |
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Marine genetics and biochemistry of tropical and deep cold-water coral reef ecology, coral diseases, microbiology and phytoplankton physiology |
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Marine Biology, Marine Ecology, Marine Fisheries Ecology, Fisheries, Estuarine ecology, Environmental biology |
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Linear algebra, numerical analysis, optimization, Euclidean distance matrices, applications: distance geometry, multidimensional scaling problem, sensor location, etc.
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Development and application of machine learning based techniques for the modeling of environmental systems including the development of artificial neural network models for the prediction of storm surges. |
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coral reef and coastal ecology; molluscan systematics, distribution, and ecology; Gulf of Mexico biodiversity; oil spill impacts to marine environments; mitigation, wetlands, and coral reefs |
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Shorebird Ecology |
