| Anderson, Daniel W. |
Professor |
UCD |
530 752-2108 |
Nearshore and pelagic biology/ecology; Seabirds, marine wildlife/marine resources: Avian interactions with aquaculture and fishing operations, environmental variation, ecotoxicology. |
| Barlow, Jay P. |
Adjunct Professor of Biological Oceanography |
UCSD |
(858) 546-7178 |
Marine mammal population dynamics; marine mammal survey methods; conservation policy; acoustics. |
| Costa, Daniel P. |
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
UCSC |
(831)459-2786 |
Physiological ecology of marine mammals and birds; rates and patterns of energy expenditure during foraging and reproduction; analysis of life history patterns as related to foraging ecology, foraging behavior and habitat utilization related to oceanography, development of new technology, use of marine animals to acquire oceanographic data. |
| Croll, Donald |
Associate Professor, Biology |
UCSC |
(831)459-3610 |
Foraging ecology of marine mammals and birds; island restoration; ecosystem effects of introduced species. |
| Estes, James |
Adjunct Professor, Biological Resources Division of U.S.G.S. |
UCSC |
(831)459-2820 |
Community ecology of sea otters; the influence of vertebrate consumers on biological communities. |
| Gardner, Ian A. |
Associate Professor/Epidemiologist Department of Medicine and Epidemiology |
UCD |
(530)752-6992 |
Infectious diseases of mammals |
| Garza, John Carlos |
Adjunct Faculty in Ocean Sciences |
UCSC |
(831) 420-3903 |
Population genetics; conservation genetics; molecular evolution; molecular ecology; molecular genetics of fish and marine mammals in California, particularily salmonids and pinnipeds. |
| Gilardi, Kirsten |
Coordinator UC Davis Wildlife Health Center Marine Ecosystem Health Program |
UCD |
(530)752-4896 |
Shark toxicology; efficacy of acoustic deterrence methods. |
| Heying, John E. |
Adjunct Associate Professor of Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution |
UCLA |
(213)763-3367 |
Evolution, morphology, natural history, and conservation of marine mammals. |
| Hildebrand, John A. |
Professor of Oceanography |
UCSD |
(858) 534-4069 |
Field studies in: Southern California, Gulf of California, Hawaii, offshore Washington, Bering Sea, Arctic, Southern Ocean. Marine mammal population census using acoustics. Impact of anthropogenic sound on marine mammals. |
| Holland, Linda Z. |
Research Biologist |
UCSD |
(858) 534-2085 |
Chordate evolutionary relationships; developmental genetics of amphioxus; evolution and development. |
| Hunt, George L., Jr. |
Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
UCI |
(949)824-6322 |
Marine mammals and seabirds. |
| Kastak, David |
Assistant Research Ocean Scientist, Institute of Marine Sciences |
UCSC |
(831) 459-3345 |
Marine mammal learning, behavior and psychobiology; animal cognition, communication, signal detection and psychophysics; sensory ecology and physiology. |
| Kooyman, Gerald L. |
Research Professor CMBB |
UCSD |
(858)534-2091 |
Behavior and physiology of diving in marine vertebrates: especially emperor penguins; conservation of marine reptiles, birds, and mammals. |
| Le Boeuf, Burney J. |
Research Professor, Biology |
UCSC |
(831)459-5014 |
Behavioral Ecology and sociobiology of marine mammals, especially seals and sea lions. Evolution of social and reproductive behavior. Behavior and physiology of diving and foraging in elephant seals. |
| Lowenstine, Linda J. |
Professor Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
UCD |
(530)752-1182 |
Infectious disease. Pathology of laboratory, wild and exotic animals, especially birds, primates, marine mammals and carnivores |
| Mazer, Susan J. |
Professor Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology |
UCSB |
(805)893-8011 |
Quantitative genetics of plant life-history characters and ecological significance of life-history variation; evolutionary ecology of seeds and reproductive characters in plants; tropical rain forest ecology; comparative biology. |
| Mazet, Jonna A.K. |
Assistant Professor Department of Medicine and Epidemiology |
UCD |
(530)752-4167 |
Wildlife epidemiology: effects of petroleum products on wildlife; development of diagnostic tests for free-ranging wildlife; marine ecotoxicology; use of key wildlife species as biomarkers of environmental health |
| Nevitt, Gabrielle A. |
Professor Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior BML |
UCD |
(530)754-9500 |
Marine mammal/vertebrate biology; olfactory imprinting in salmon; olfactory foraging in seabirds; sensory biology. |
| Ortiz, Charles L. (Leo) |
Professor, Biology |
UCSC |
(831)459-2247 |
Physiology of marine mammals, physiology of secretion; northern elephant seals behavior and population genetics, marine mammal fasting . |
| Perrin, William F. |
Adjunct Professor |
UCSD |
(858)546-7096 |
Ecology of cetaceans; systematics of small cetaceans; conservation biology of cetaceans. |
| Ponganis, Paul J. |
Associate Research Physiologist CMBB |
UCSD |
(858)822-0792 |
Diving physiology and behavior. |
| Puschner, Birgit |
Assistant Professor CAHFS |
UCD |
(530)752-6322 |
Veterinary Toxicology: diagnosis of toxicoses caused by plants, industrial pollutants and natural toxins in pets, large animals, avians, and wildlife; kinetics of natural toxicants with emphasis on potential public health concerns. |
| Schusterman, Ronald J. |
Adjunct Recalled Professor, Ocean Sciences, and Research Marine Scientist R |
UCSC |
(831)459-3345 |
Marine mammal cognition and communication; psychobiology and sociobiology of marine mammals; sensory processes in pinnipeds, especially acoustic psychophysics. |
| Sillman, Arnold |
Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior |
UCD |
(530)752-3207 |
Vertebrate biology: physiology, biochemistry and biology of the vertebrate eye with special emphasis on photoreceptors and visual pigments; particular interests in the retina of aquatic animals. |
| Stott, Jeffery L. |
Associate Professor/Associate Immunologist |
UCD |
(530)752-2543 |
Immunology of infectious disease Immunopathogenesis of viral and bacterial diseases; Immunomodulation of the mucosal immune system. Developmental and comparative immunology of marine mammal species and zoo animals. |
| Tershy, Bernie |
Executive Director of Island Conservation and Ecology Group, UCSC |
UCSC |
(831)459-1461 |
Applied and theoretical research in island ecosystems and conservation; Seabird ecology and mysticete ecology. |
| Williams, Terrie M. |
Professor, Biology |
UCSC |
(831)459-5123 |
Marine mammal biology; marine biodiversity, comparative vertebrate energetics, exercise physiology; common morphological features and physiological limitations of marine and terrestrial animals; swimming and running energetics, thermoregulation during exercise; plasticity of mammalian skeletal muscle. |
| Yildiz, Fitnat |
Assistant Professor, Environmental Toxicology |
UCSC |
831-459-1588 |
Ecology and Evolution of pathogenic microorganisms; understanding how fluctuating physical, chemical and biological factors encountered by pathogenic microorganisms in their natural habitats are perceived by the pathogens and affect their adaptation in aquatic ecosystems; identification and characterization the processes governing survival of Vibrio cholerae in aquatic ecosystems. |
| Ziccardi, Michael |
Wildlife Veterinarian Wildlife Health Center |
UCD |
(530)754-8701 |
Wildlife epidemiology: development of molecular biomarkers/bioassays; effects of petroleum products on wildlife; infectious disease epidemiology of captive wildlife species; marine ecotoxicology |
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