Behavioral ecology of marine fishes,
Reproductive biology of fishes,
Marine fish community structure and diversity,
Life history evolution in fishes,
Marine conservation
Novel Natural products isolated from Marine Microorganisms.
Right now work is focusing on identifying new compounds that could potentially be used in the prevention of the onset of cancer in people who have a predisposition to cancer.
Biogeochemical cycles governing air-sea exchange of particulate matter. Marine aerosol formation and CCN activation of marine matter. Phytoplankton responses to climate changes and how this affects cloud formation processes at the marine boundary layer.
Underwater slope failure and stability assessment.
Geologically recent deposition events and tectonics influence using bathymetry and sub bottom seismic profiling.
Granular dynamics, mostly for modeling of marine sediments: seabed dynamics, response to stress constraints, force chains, internal reorganization, micro displacements, dilatancy, marine sediments acoustics.
Applicability of recent experimental and theoretical results on dry granular matter to the fluid saturated conditions.
Sediment transport: interactions between nearshore hydrodynamics and coastal morphology (beach erosion, civil engineering).
Study of sediment sources (river, cliff erosion), sinks (past the shelf break), pathways and relevant physical processes during sediment cycles (resuspension, wave climate and subsequent sediment fluxes).
I am interested in the effects of environmental factors on success of marine invertebrate larvae. Specifically, my dissertation research focuses on the effects of food availability and fluid turbulence on morphology and feeding of sea urchin larvae.
I'm interested in climate dynamics and predictability. My PhD research revolves around the numerical modeling of clouds and cloud systems, and their interaction with radiation and large scale moist dynamics.
Thus far, my research interests have been in the field of environmental chemistry, investigating pollutant interactions, and distributions in the environment. I am now curious as to the ubiquity of certain natural analogs to these anthropogenic pollutants
marine biodiversity gradients of benthic foraminifera in the deep sea, and their causes and relationships to the diversity patterns of pelagic and terrestrial organisms
Students@SIO is an organization of graduate students at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, a department of the University of California, San Diego
