| Name |
Faculty Advisor |
Dissertation Title |
First Position |
| Edwin Beckenbach |
Libe Washburn |
Surface circulation in the Santa Barbara channel: an application of high frequency radar for descriptive physical oceanography in the coastal zone |
Post-doc, Scripps |
| Grace Chang |
Tommy Dickey |
Analysis of bio-optical variability related to physical processes on the southern New England continental shelf: July 1996-June 1997 |
Associate Researcher, Ocean Physics Lab, UCSB |
| Mary Jane Coombs |
David Lea |
Middle to late Holocene sea surface and near-surface water temperatures and salinities along the Baja California margin
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California Institute for Energy and Environment |
| Petra Dekens |
David Lea |
Core top calibration of Mg/Ca in tropical foraminifera: refining Paleo-temperature estimation |
Ph.D. Program at UC Santa Cruz |
| Tonya Del Sontro |
Bruce Luyendyk |
Beach asphalt (tar) accumulation at Coal Oil Point, CA: identification of processes controlling temporal variations |
Ph.D. Program at Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology |
| Valerie Franck |
Mark Brzezinski |
Iron and zinc effects on silicon and nitrate uptake in high-nutrient, low chlorophyll regions off Central California, the Southern Ocean and the eastern tropical Pacific |
Assistant Professor, Hawaii Pacific University |
| Joseph Gorga |
Barbara Prézelin |
Responses of the cyanobacteria synechococcus sp. (WH7803), the red-tide forming dinoflagellate heterocapsa pygmaea, and natural phytoplankton assemblages along coastal California to exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation |
Lecturer, UC San Diego |
| Christen Herren |
Alice Alldredge
James Case |
Bioluminescent plankton: association with thin layers and marine snow in coastal oceans |
Program Coordinator, Microbial Ecology Initiatives, Harvard University |
| Tessa Hill |
Jim Kennett |
Intermediate waters, oceanic methane and abrupt climate change: insights from modern methane seeps and high-resolution isotope records |
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, UC Davis, Bodega Marine Lab |
| Gabrielle Johnson |
David Chapman |
Effects of dynamic light regimes on the photophysiology of the marine diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii with special emphasis on Xanthophyll cycling |
Lecturer, Santa Barbara City College |
| Tamara Lunsman |
Willy Lick |
The sorption of hydrophobic organic chemicals to bacteria |
Marine Scientist, Geo-Marine Inc. |
| Claudia Mengelt |
Barbara Prézelin |
Ultraviolet photoecology, dark survival, and seasonal abundance of Pseudo-nitzschia australis and P. multiseries in coastal waters of central California |
Associate Program Officer, National Academy of Sciences/BASC, Washington DC |
| Daniel Murphy |
Jim Kennett |
Intermediate water changes across the oxygen minimum zone during the last 50 ka, Southern California margin |
Ph.D. Program, Texas A&M |
| Laura Mydlarz |
Bob Jacobs |
Physiological chemistry of pseudopterosin biosynthesis in symbiotic dinoflagellates from the soft coral pseudopterogorgia elisabethae |
Assistant Professor, University of Texas |
| Mark Otero |
David Siegel |
Spatial and temporal characteristics of sediment plumes and phytoplankton blooms in the Santa Barbara Channel |
Staff Research Assistant II, Marine Physics Lab, Scripps |
| Karen Patterson |
Ray Smith |
Contribution of chromophoric dissolved organic matter to attenuation of ultraviolet radiation in three contrasting coastal areas |
Interdisciplinary Oceanographer, Steins Space Ctr |
| Marla Ranelletti |
David Chapman |
Evaluating the impact of the invasive kelp undaria pinnatifida on native California kelps egregia menziesii and macrocystis pyrifera: allelochemical interactions among gametophytes and hybridization |
EPA, Corvallis, Oregon |
| Cliff Ross |
Bob Jacobs |
The biochemistry and physiology of wound plug formation in the marine chlorophyte Dasycladus vermicularis |
Assistant Professor, University of North Florida |
| Amelia Shevenell |
Jim Kennett |
The role of climate feedbacks in the middle Miocene climate transitions |
Post-doc, School of Oceanography, University of Washington |
| Rebecca Shipe |
Mark Brzezinski |
Dynamics of silicon, carbon and nitrogen in the Santa Barbara Basin, California: the coupling of organic matter with biogenic silica cycles and effects of the 1997-98 El Niño |
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, UC Los Angeles |
| Sarah Stone |
Alice Alldredge |
Ecological consequences of the fragmentation of marine snow by swimming euphausiids |
Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography, Humboldt State University |
| Dierdre Toole |
David Siegel |
Light-driven biogeochemical cycling of dimethylsulfide (DMS) in the Sargasso sea |
Assistant Research Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Peter Von Langen |
David Lea |
Non spinose planktonic foraminifera (neogloboquadrina pachyderma) cultured for geochemical and paleoceanographic applications |
Environmental Scientist, Regional Water Quality Control Board |
| Jonathan Warrick |
Leal Mertes |
Short-term (1997-2000) and long-term (1928-2000) observations of river water and sediment discharge to the Santa Barbara Channel, California |
Research Geologist, USGS Santa Cruz |
| James Weaver |
Dan Morse |
Structure-function relationships in biomineralized composites: analysis of the architectural complexities of sponge skeletal systems |
Instructor, Santa Barbara City College |
| Pamela Weiant |
Susan Stonich |
A political ecology of marine protected areas (MPAs): Case of Cabo Pulmo National Park, Sea of Cortez, Mexico |
The Nature Conservancy in Hawaii |
| Toby Westberry |
David Siegel |
Satellite remote sensing of Trichodesmium spp. and its relation to atmospheric dust depositione |
Post-doc, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University |
