Mentors and Projects
For inquiries about mentors and their projects, please look over the mentor's webpages (linked to their names). If you still have questions, please email us at reu@csumb.edu. Please do not contact the mentors directly. Students who contact mentors may be removed from consideration for the REU.
Below is a selection of mentors across our research partners, which highlight the types of research available to students in our program.
| California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB) | |
|---|---|
| Mentors | Research Themes |
| Dr. Alison Haupt | Population Genetics, Land-Sea Connections, Kelp Forest and Coastal Ecology, Anthropogenic Impacts on Ecosystems |
| Dr. Lydia Baker | Ecology and Evolution of Bacteria in Symbiotic and Microbiome Interactions with Marine Animals |
| Dr. Arlene Haffa | Agricultural Nutrient and Pesticide Management to Reduce Greenhouse Gases, and Water Contamination |
| Dr. Cheryl Logan | Marine Physiology, Climate Change Stress Physiology, Ecological Forecasting, Ocean Climate Change Policy |
| Dr. Dan Fernandez | Fog Water Collection and Measurement |
| Dr. James Lindholm | Fish Ecology |
| Dr. John Olson | Freshwater Ecology, Invasive Species, Microplastics, Coastal Rivers |
| Dr. JP Dundore-Arias | Role of Native Microbial Communities on Plant Community Assembly in Coastal Marshes, Influence of Plant-Invasion and Establishment of Non-Native Species |
| Dr. Liz Alter | Population and Ecological Genomics of Fishes and Marine Mammals, Environmental DNA, Conservation Genetics |
| Dr. Nate Jue | Evolutionary Genomics of Marine Organisms |
| Hopkins Marine Station (HMS) | |
|---|---|
| Mentors | Research Themes |
| Dr. Chris Lowe | Developmental Biology |
| Dr. Fiorenza Micheli | Population Biology |
| Dr. Giulio DeLeo | Marine Population Dynamics |
| Dr. Jeremy Goldbogen | Marine Mammal Science, Biomechanics and Physiological Ecology |
| Dr. Larry Crowder | Marine Ecology and Conservation |
| Dr. Steve Palumbi | Molecular Ecology |
| Dr. William Gilly | Marine Developmental Biology |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) | |
|---|---|
| Dr. Mariana Bernardi Bif | Biogeochemistry, Carbon Cycle |
| Dr. Colleen Durkin | Biological Oceanography |
| Danelle Cline and John Ryan | Passive Acoustic Monitoring |
| Dr. Francisco Chavez | Climate Change, Ocean Acidification, Hypoxia, El Niño, Observational Genomics |
| Gene Massion | Ocean Engineering, Autonomous Technology, Oceanography |
| Dr. George Matsumoto | Deep-sea Ecology |
| Dr. James Barry | Biology and Ecology of Marine Benthic Communities |
| Dr. Kakani Katija | Bioinspired Design |
| Dr. Yui Takeshita | Chemical Sensor Development, Coral Reef Metabolism and Biogeochemistry, Seawater CO2 Chemistry, Benthic Fluxes, and Seagrass and Kelp Forest Biogeochemistry |
| Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) | |
|---|---|
| Mentors | Research Themes |
| Dr. Amanda Kahn | Invertebrate Ecology: Trophic Ecology, Suspension Feeders, Natural History of Marine Invertebrates |
| Dr. Birgitte McDonald | Marine Mammal and Seabird Ecology, Physiological Ecology and Polar Science |
| Dr. Diana Steller | Macroalgal Ecology |
| Dr. Holly Bowers | Environmental Biotechnology |
| Dr. Ivano Aiello | Marine Geology |
| Dr. Luke Gardner | Aquaculture, Nutrition, Genomics, Physiology |
| Dr. Max Grand | Chemical Oceanography, Analytical Chemistry, Nutrient & Trace Metal Cycling |
| Dr. Michael Graham | Algal Ecology |
| Dr. Sarah Smith | Phytoplankton, Diatoms, Genomics |
| Dr. Scott Hamilton | Fish Ecology |
| Dr. Tom Connolly | Physical Oceanography |
| Dr. Nate Spindel | Marine Ecophysiology |
| Dr. Mike Wood | Computational Oceanography |
| Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) | |
|---|---|
| Mentors | Research Themes |
| Dr. Jamie MacMahan | Oceanography, Surf Zone and Inner Shelf Processes |
| John Joseph | Acoustics and Marine Mammal Acoustic Signatures |
| Dr. Mara Orescanin | Coastal Ocean and Estuary Processes |
| Dr. Qing Wang | Air-Sea Interactions |
| Dr. Timour Radko | Double Diffusion and Turbulent Processes |
| Dr. Wendell Nuss | Coastal and Marine Meteorology |
| Dr. Wieslaw Maslowski | Arctic Earth Systems |