Department Directory
Department Faculty






Daniel Griffith
Assistant Professor
Plant ecophysiology, field ecology, remote sensing, and geospatial modeling








Luis Santiago-Rosario
PRODiG+ Fellow
Ecological stoichiometry, plant ecology, and plant–animal interactions


Jordanna Sprayberry
Associate Professor and Director of UG Biology
Sensory ecology and neuroethology

Yun Tao
Assistant Professor
Disease ecology, movement ecology, and quantitative/computational ecology


Anna Thonis
PRODiG+ Fellow
Conservation and global-change ecology, herpetology, and species distribution modeling



Krishna Veeramah
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director (MA Program)
Human evolutionary genetics


Elizabeth Watson
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director (PhD Program)
Coastal wetlands, climate change, ecohydrology, and translational ecology


Sarah Zohdy
Professor
Disease and vector ecology, One Health/global health, and human–wildlife health
Program Faculty

Gabor Balazsi
Henry Laufer Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Synthetic biology and gene networks


Christopher J. Gobler
Endowed Chair of Coastal Ecology & Conservation, Distinguished Professor, SOMAS
Coastal Ecosystem ecology, climate change, harmful algal blooms

Catherine Graham
Professor, Swiss Federal Research Inst. WSL
Spatial ecology and biodiversity conservation

Daniel Holstein
Associate Professor, SOMAS
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences


Elaine Luo
Assistant Professor, SOMAS
Microbial oceanography, computational biology, metagenomics

Catherine Markham
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Spatial ecology and biodiversity conservation

Giovanna McClenachan
Assistant Professor, SOMAS
Drivers of coastal change, to track transitions in structure and function of ecosystems.

Stephan Munch
Adjunct Professor, UC Santa Cruz Fisheries Ecologist, NOAA
Life history evolution

Bradley J. Peterson
Professor, SOMAS
Community ecology of seagrass and salt marshes

Jeroen B. Smaers
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Brain evolution and macroevolution

Lesley Thorne
Associate Professor, SOMAS
Bio-physical and trophic interactions in marine ecology

Katheryn C. Twiss
Professor, Chair of Anthropology
Archaeology, Human-Animal interactions



Daniel Dykhuizen
Distinguished Professor, Emeritus
Evolutionary genetics and population biology


Douglas J. Futuyma
Distinguished Professor, Emeritus
Evolution of interactions between plants and insects


Jessica Gurevitch
Distinguished Professor, Emeritus
Plant population and community ecology

Jeffrey S. Levinton
Distinguished Professor, Emeritus
Marine benthic ecology and macroevolution

F. James Rohlf
Distinguished Professor, Emeritus
Biometry and geometric morphometrics

Evan Abreu

Tiana Acito

Nicolas Anderson

Thomas Bertino

Kate Blackwell

Raisa Campos Rizzieri

Jorge Carballo Morales

Jack Chaillet

Alex Chege

Salim Dason

Clare Flynn

Derek Fucich

Colin Henneberry

Ashley House

Rupert Ikeh

Lauren Jeffrey

Kay Johnson

Katie Jones

Hope Kenmore

Robert Kruse

Sam Lavin

Lyra Lu

Carlos Morantes

An Nguyen

Alex Pamfilie

Kaitlyn Puorro

Hannah Robinson

Saloni Singh

Sixto Taveras Lopez

Sarah Vaccaro

Ziyu Wang

Imogene Welles

Anna Wilkinson

Megan Wyatt

Chenjie Xia
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