 |
Sedimentary Geology; Paleoceanography with emphasis on paleoclimate studies |
 |
Hamilton-Jacobi formalism of quantum mechanics, Perturbation theories,
molecular dynamics simulations of nanosystems, energy and sustainability |
 |
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 |
 |
Understanding chiral separations with amino acid based surfactants; distribution, fate and effect of endocrine disruptors in the environment; environmental chemistry |
 |
Plant responses to contaminated environments using molecular, biochemical and genomics techniques; Phytoremediation; Molecular characterization of epiphytic biofilms on seagrasses; Seagrass stress responses |
 |
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. |
 |
Oil spill response and natural resource damage assessment; Environmental regulations,
hazardous materials, coastal biology |
 |
Biochemistry, molecular
ecology of marine plants |
 |
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 |
 |
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 |
 |
Coastal ecology, ichthyology, mariculture, marine
mammals |
 |
Physical oceanography, oceanographic remote sensing, air-sea fluxes, atmospheric moisture transport, role of the ocean in climate, and multivariate statistical analysis |
 |
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 |
 |
Geology and geochemistry of hydrocarbon seeps along continental margins; fluid and sediment geochemistry with emphasis on gas hydrate-bearing sediments |
 |
Organic geochemistry: Climate and environmental change and Differences in organic geochemical practices, Biogeochemistry, Environmental chemistry |
 |
Coastal
geology, coastal management, sedimentary geology, regional
geology, coastal processes; coastal regulations and
resource management; Late Pleistocene/Holocene coastal geology and
geomorphology
|
 |
Genetics and biochemistry of tropical and deep-water invertebrates
and
algae, marine genetics and biochemistry of tropical and deep cold-water coral reef ecology, coral diseases, microbiology and phytoplankton physiology |
 |
Marine Biology, Marine Ecology, Marine Fisheries Ecology, Fisheries, Estuarine ecology, Environmental biology
|
 |
Physiological stress in spotted seatrout following hook and line capture;
heat shock protein expression and Dermo infection in intertidal and subtidal
oyster populations |
 |
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. |
 |
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 |
 |
Hydrogeologic modeling and geophysical surveying to solve problems related water supplies in the coastal bend region with particular interest in the saline/freshwater interface |
