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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