Affiliated Faculty & Research Associates
updated 2/08

Giacomo Bernardi, Associate Professor, Biology Dept.
Research: Molecular ecology and evolution of fishes.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Jeffrey Bury, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Dept.
Research: Political ecology studies, environment and development and field methods in Latin America.

Kenneth W. Bruland, Professor, Ocean Sciences Dept.
Research: Chemical oceanography; biogeochemistry of trace metals and radionuclides; aquatic chemistry and geochemistry.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Mark H. Carr, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dept.
Research: Population and community ecology of marine organisms.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Patrick Chuang, Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences Dept.
Research: Aerosols, cloud physics, atmospheric chemistry, climate change, air quality
STEPS linked affiliation: Climate change

Weixin Cheng, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Dept.
Research: Soil ecology, ecological interactions between soils and plants, root imaging and isotope tracing; rhizosphere processes; effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on soil microbial processes.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Water

Daniel P. Costa, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dept.
Research: Physiological ecology of marine mammals and birds.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Donald A. Croll, Assistant Research Biologist, Biology Dept.
Research: Foraging ecology of marine mammals and seabirds; ecosystem effects of introduced species on small islands; strategies for island restoration.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Ben Crow, Associate Professor, Sociology Dept.
Research: Comparative sociology of development, poverty, class and gender, water, land and labor; political economy; sociology of the economy; social studies of technology; peasant studies.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Margaret L. Delaney, Professor and Chair, Ocean Sciences Dept.
Research: Paleoceanography, marine geochemistry.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

David Draper, Professor and Chair, Applied Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Research: Bayesian statistics, hierarchical modeling, stochastic optimization, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, statistical model uncertainty, quality assessment in health and education, stochastic modeling in the medical and social sciences.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Christopher A. Edwards, Assistant Professor, Ocean Sciences Dept.
Research: Physical oceanography, numeric modeling of coastal and basin-scale dynamics.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

James Estes, Interim Director, the STEPS Institute; Adjunct Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dept.
Research: Marine sciences, community ecology.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Andy Fisher, Professor, Earth Sciences Dept.
Research: Physical hydrology of aquifers; groundwater-surface water interactions.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Margaret Fitzsimmons, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Dept. and Associate Director, Monterey Bay Regional Studies Program
Research: Social and spatial aspects of environmental change, examining the interaction among cultural and political values, economic institutions, government, and environment.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

A. Russell Flegal, Professor, Environmental Toxicology Dept.
Research: Elemental cycles in terrestrial and aquatic systems, isotope geochemistry environmental toxicology.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Laurel R. Fox, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dept.
Research: Terrestrial population and community ecology; plant-animal interactions.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Daniel Friedman, Professor, Economics Dept.
Research: Applied economic theory, with recent emphasis on learning and evolution, laboratory experiments and financial markets.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Robert E. Garrison, Professor Emeritus, Ocean Sciences Dept.
Research: Deep-water sedimentology, diagenesis, and paleoceanographic histories; natural resources and economic development.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Gregory S. Gilbert, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Dept.
Research: Ecology of plant disease in natural ecosystems, tropical forest ecology, conservation biology, microbial ecology, biological invasions, agroecology.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

James B. Gill, Professor, Earth Sciences Dept.
Research: Igneous petrology, geochemistry of island arcs.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Lynda J. Goff, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dept. and Vice Provist/Dean, Undergraduate Education
Research: Phycology, algal symbiosis, marine molecular biology.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Gary B. Griggs, Director, Institute of Marine Sciences
Research: Coastal geology, hazards and engineering.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Brent M. Haddad, Professor, Environmental Studies Dept.
Research: Property rights, market-based natural resource management, California water policy, energy policy.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Water

Brett Hall, Director of Horticulture and Living Collections , UCSC Arboretum

Daniel K. Harder, Executive Director, Arboretum
Research: Botanical research, plant conservation and program development.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

David Haussler, Professor, Biomolecular Engineering Dept.
Research: Genomics, bioinformatics, molecular evolution, statistical decision theory, pattern recognition,neural networks, algorithms and complexity.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Karen Holl, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Dept
Research: Resortation ecology, ecosystem succession, tropical ecology, plant ecology, conservation biology, land-use management
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Water

Ted R. Holman, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Dept.
Research: Bioinorganic chemistry, Lipoxygenase, Heme binding.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Elise Knittle, Professor of Earth Sciences, Experimental Geophysics and Mineral Physics
Research: uses ultrahigh pressure and temperature experiments to simulate the conditions in the Earth's interior.
STEPS linked affiliation: Climate Change

Paul L. Koch, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Research: Impact of climate change on evolution and extinction of mammals.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Joseph Konopelski, Professor and Chair, Chemistry Dept.
Research: Development of new synthetic methodologies and their application to the total synthesis of complex organic molecules.

Athanasios Kottas, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Research: Bayesian nonparametric and semiparametric modeling, survival analysis, quantile regression modeling inference under probability order constraints, categorical data analysis, spatial statistics.
STEPS linked affiliation: Climate Change

Raphael M. Kudela, Assistant Professor, Ocean Sciences Dept.
Research: Ecological modeling and remote sensing; satellite oceanography; phytoplankton ecology and harmful algal blooms.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Burney J. Le Boeuf, Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Biology
Research: Social and population dynamics of marine mammals.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water, Climate Change

Deborah K. Letourneau, Professor, Environmental Studies Dept.
Research: Agroecology, tropical biology/conservation, insect-plant interactions, biological control as an alternative to chemical pesticides.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Norman Locks, Associate Director, Arts Dept.
Research: Photography
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Michael E. Loik, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Dept.
Research: Plant responses to natural and anthropogenic environmental stress, climatology, implications of global environmental change for reproductive success and community composition, biogeography, physiology of ecosystem restoration.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Water

Marc Los Huertos, Post-doctoral Researcher, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, Environmental Studies Dept.
Research: Investigating water quality, nitrogen and carbon dynamics in cover crops, phosphorous loading and leaching potential in agricultural soils.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Paul M. Lubek, Professor, Sociology Dept.
Research: Political sociology; political economy; newly industrializing states; sociology of development; religion and social movements; Mexican development; industrialization and labor; multinationals and states in the world economy.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Bruce E. Lyon, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dept.
Research: Ecological and evolutionary basis of reproductive strategies and social behavior in animals, particularly reproductive parasitism, parental care and mating systems.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Patrick E. Mantey, Professor,Computer Science & Engineering Dept.
Research: Environmental sensor networks
STEPS linked affiliation: Water, Climate Change

Marc Mangel, Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Research: Quantitative and behavioral ecology; marine fisheries, with particular application to salmonids, rockfish and krill.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity, Water

Pradip K. Mascharak, Professor, Chemistry Dept.
Research: Inorganic chemistry, drug design, protein active site modeling.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Matthew D. McCarthy, Assistant Professor, Ocean Sciences Dept.
Research: Organic geochemistry, marine organic geochemistry, global biogeochemical cycles.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Glenn Millhauser, Professor, Chemistry Dept.
Research: Prions, melanocortin receptor signaling, agouti-related protein, electron paramagnetic resonance, nuclear magnetic resonance.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Karen M. Ottemann, Assistant Professor, Environmental Toxicology Dept.
Research: Mechanisms used by disease-causing bacteria to sense and respond to their environments, both inside and outside the animals they infect.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Ingrid M. Parker, Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dept.
Research: Population biology of plants, biology of invasive species.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Grant H. Pogson, Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Molecular and ecological genetics of marine invertebrates and fishes.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Donald C. Potts, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Coral reef ecology, biodiversity and systematics, population biology, tropical biology.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Raquel Prado, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Research: Bayesian non-stationary time series modeling, multivariate time series, biomedical signal processing, wavelets, statistical genetics.
STEPS linked affiliation: Climate Change

Daniel M. Press, Professor and Chair, Environmental Studies Dept.
Research: Environmental politics and policy, regulation and management, resources conservation, pollution prevention.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity, Water

Peter T. Raimondi, Professor and Chair, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Subtidal and intertidal community ecology.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity, Water

A. Christina Ravelo, Associate Professor, Ocean Sciences Dept.
Research: Stable isotope geochemistry and chemical oceanography; paleoclimatology.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Alan Richards, Professor, Environmental Studies
Research: Environmental and natural resource economics, economics of sustainable development, political economy of water, and the interaction of environmental problems and political conflict.

Bruno Sanso, Associate Professor, Applied Math & Statistics Dept.
Research: Bayesian spatio-temporal modeling, environmental and geostatistical applications, modeling ofrainfall at different levels of aggregation in space and time, statistical assessment of climate variability.
STEPS linked affiliation: Climate Change

Carol Shennan, Director, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and Professor, Environmental Studies Dept.
Research: Plant physiology, sustainable agriculture, and issues of gender and environment in agriculture and development.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Mary Wilcox Silver, Professor, Ocean Sciences Dept.
Research: Biological oceanography, marine plankton, midwater ecology.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity, Water

Barry Sinervo, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dept.
Research: Behavioral and physiological ecology in reptiles.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Nirvikar Singh, Professor, Economics Dept.
Research: Strategic behavior of governments toward multinational corporations, international technology transfer, and economic development.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Lisa C. Sloan, Vice Provost/Dean of Graduate Studies; Professor, Earth Sciences Dept.
Research: Paleoclimatology and earth system science, modeling of ancient surface processes, environments and climates.
STEPS linked affiliation: Climate Change, Water

Donald R. Smith, Associate Professor and Chair, Environmental Toxicology Dept.
Research: Toxicology of aquatic metal exposures, metabolism and mechanisms of action.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

William T. Sullivan, Professor, Biology Dept.
Research: Studies on the Drosophila embryonic nuclear cycle.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity

Andrew Szasz, Associate Professor, Sociology Dept.
Research: Sociology of nature, political sociology, social movement theory.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

John N. Thompson, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Rapidly changing genetic diversity of species and networks of coevolving species across environmental gradients.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Water

Slawek Tulaczyk, Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences Dept.
Research: Glaciology and glacial geology, geomorphology, soil mechanics.
STEPS linked affiliation: Climate Change

John F. Vesecky, Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering Dept.
Research: HF radar design and construction and observation of ocean surface winds, waves, and currents with applications to coastal and deep water ocean processes; microwave remote sensing.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Hongyun Wang, Associate Professor, J. Baskin Engineering Dept.
Research: Biophysics and molecular biology; energy transduction in biological systems; force generation mechanism and thermodynamics of molecular motors; behavior and regulations of molecular pumps; molecular structural analysis animation and visualization; fluid mechanics; differential equations; numerical analysis; fast algorithms; parallel computing.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

Kirsten Wasson, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology;
Research: Elkhorn Slough Foundation
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity, Water

Terrie M. Williams, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dept.
Research: Vertebrate locomotor and thermoregulatory physiology; comparative vertebrate energetics and exercise physiology.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

James Zachos, Associate Professor, Earth Sciences Dept.
Research: Paleoceanography, marine stratigraphy and stable isotope geochemistry.
STEPS linked affiliation: Climate Change

Erika Zavaleta, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Dept.
Research: Ecology and evolutionary biology, biodiversity and global change, biological invasions, terrestrial plant and ecosystem ecology, ecological economics, human ecology, conservation.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Water

Jonathan P. Zehr, Professor, Ocean Sciences Dept.
Research: Aquatic microbial ecology, biological oceanography.
STEPS linked affiliation: Biodiversity, Water

Xixi Zhao, Researcher, Earth & Sciences Dept.
Research: Paleomagnetism, tectonics, paleogeography, stratigraphy, and paleoclimatology.
STEPS linked affiliation: Climate Change

Zhiwu Zhu, Assistant Professor, Biology Dept.
Research: Molecular biology, metallo-biochemistry, metal ion-responsive gene transription regulation, metal ion-regulated protein degradation.
STEPS linked affiliation: Water

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