Tania Anders

Sedimentary Geology; Paleoceanography with emphasis on paleoclimate studies

M. "Bala" Balasubramanya

Hamilton-Jacobi formalism of quantum mechanics, Perturbation theories, molecular dynamics simulations of nanosystems, energy and sustainability

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

Eugene Billiot

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

Kirk Cammarata

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

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.

David Jensen

Oil spill response and natural resource damage assessment; Environmental regulations, hazardous materials, coastal biology

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

Ian MacDonald

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

Cherie McCollough

David McKee

Alberto Mestas-Nunez

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

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

James Silliman

Organic geochemistry: Climate and environmental change and Differences in organic geochemical practices, Biogeochemistry, Environmental chemistry

Jennifer Smith-Engle

Coastal geology, coastal management, sedimentary geology, regional geology, coastal processes; coastal regulations and resource management; Late Pleistocene/Holocene coastal geology and geomorphology

Kevin Strychar

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

Greg Stunz

Marine Biology, Marine Ecology, Marine Fisheries Ecology, Fisheries, Estuarine ecology, Environmental biology

Rebekah Thomas

Physiological stress in spotted seatrout following hook and line capture; heat shock protein expression and Dermo infection in intertidal and subtidal oyster populations

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; mitigation, wetlands, and coral reefs

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