Biological Oceanography

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Faculty

Biological Oceanography is the study of how marine organisms interact with each other and with physical, chemical and geological processes in the ocean.

Biology in the oceans affects many of the Earth’s systems. For example, marine life is important in global cycling of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and other elements.

COAS researchers use on-site, shipboard and satellite measurements to understand ocean ecology, particularly in upper-ocean systems in coastal and polar regions.

Research focus is on phytoplankton physiology and ecology, aquatic microbial ecology, zooplankton ecology, bio-optics, population-to-ecosystem modeling of the upper ocean and benthic sedimentary ecology.