Robert Benson

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

Mark Besonen

Geology, storm effects

Fereshteh Billiot

Understanding chiral separations with amino acid based surfactants; distribution, fate and effect of endocrine disruptors in the environment

Kirk Cammarata

Plant responses to contaminated environments using molecular, biochemical and genomics techniques; Phytoremediation; Molecular characterization of epiphytic biofilms on seagrasses; Seagrass stress responses

Scott Carr

Marine ecotoxicology; ecological indicators; harmful algal blooms; hypoxia; oil and gas development; pollution

Joe Fox

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.

James Gibeaut

Coastal geology using topographic Lidar, remote sensing, GIS, and field surveys to measure and understand coastal change.

Graham Hickman

Ecological, behavioral, and biogeographical studies, predominantly in vertebrate biology (ichthyology, herpetology, ornithology, and mammalogy)

Gary Jeffress

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

Patrick Larkin

Biochemistry, molecular ecology of marine plants

Roy Lehman

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

David McKee

Richard McLaughlin

Marine policy and law

Alberto Mestas-Nunez

Physical oceanography, oceanographic remote sensing, air-sea fluxes, atmospheric moisture transport, role of the ocean in climate, and multivariate statistical analysis

Paul Montagna

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.

Joanna Mott

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

Thomas Naehr

Geology and geochemistry of hydrocarbon seeps along continental margins; fluid and sediment geochemistry with emphasis on gas hydrate-bearing sediments

Marion Nipper

Ecotoxicology & marine pollution

Deborah Overath

Population genetics of marine organisms, evolutionary genetics of invasive plants, population and conservation genetics of native plants, and theoretical population genetics

Frank Pezold

Fish diversity, systematics, ecology and conservation

Alexey Sadovski

Mathematical and statistical modeling and their applications to environmental, coastal, marine, and earth sciences and systems

Thomas Shirley

Marine ecology, biodiversity, deep-sea benthos, biology of sea mounts, crab biology, meiofauna, priapulid systematics

James Silliman

Organic geochemistry: climate and environmental change and differences in organic geochemical practices, biogeochemistry, environmental chemistry

Lee Smee

Ecology, animal behavior (with focus on chemical signaling in aquatic systems), marine biology

Liz Smith

Coastal Ecology and Resource Management

Kevin Strychar

Marine genetics and biochemistry of tropical and deep cold-water coral reef ecology, coral diseases, microbiology and phytoplankton physiology

Greg Stunz

Marine biology, marine ecology, marine fisheries ecology, fisheries, estuarine ecology, environmental biology

Pablo Tarazaga

Linear algebra, numerical analysis, optimization, euclidean distance matrices, applications: distance geometry, multidimensional scaling problem, sensor location, etc.

Rebekah Thomas

Cell physiology; membrane transport systems; muscle physiology; metabolism; stress; endocrinology.

Phillipe Tissot

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.

Wes Tunnell

Coral reef and coastal ecology; molluscan systematics distribution and ecology, Gulf of Mexico biodiversity; oil spill impacts to marine environments

Egon Weber

Hydrogeologic modeling and geophysical surveying to solve problems related water supplies in the coastal bend region with particular interest in the saline/freshwater interface.

Kim Withers

Shorebird ecology

David Yoskowitz

Environmental and ecological economics, ecosystem services, regional economics

Paul Zimba

Phytoplankton ecology and harmful algal blooms