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.
Each year we highlight a selection of mentors across our six research partners. See below for the REU mentor list, which highlight the types of research available to students in our program.
| Mentors | Research Themes |
|---|
| Dr. Alison Haupt |
Population Genetics, Land-Sea Connections, Kelp Forest and Coastal Ecology, Anthropogenic Impacts on Ecosystems |
| Dr. Allison Cramer |
Spatial Ecology, Disturbance Ecology, Ecoinformatics |
| 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. Corey Garza |
Marine Landscape Ecology, Intertidal Ecology, Drones, GIS |
| Dr. Daniel 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. Nathaniel Jue |
Evolutionary Genomics of mMrine Organisms |
| Dr. Sherry Palacios |
Biological Oceanography |
| Dr. Steve Moore |
Marine Biology and Ocean Robotics |
| Mentors | Research Themes |
|---|
| Dr. Astrid Leitner |
Ecology, Oceanography, Marine Geology |
| 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 |
| Rob Sherlock |
Midwater Ecology, Mesopelagic Ecology, Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) |
| Dr. Yui Takeshita |
Chemical Sensor Development, Coral Reef Metabolism and Biogeochemistry, Seawater CO2 Chemistry, Benthic Fluxes, and Seagrass and Kelp Forest Biogeochemistry |