USC faculty affiliated with the Wrigley Institute and Environmental Studies

Gerry Bakus
Area of Expertise: Ecology of coral reefs.
Phone: (213) 740-5790
Email: bakus@usc.edu
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Jean-Pierre Bardet
Area of Expertise: Earthquake engineering and soil geomechanics.
Phone: (213) 740-5790
Email: bardet@usc.edu
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Will Berelson
Area of Expertise: Chemical oceanography, coastal environmental chemistry, and sediment and water-column biogeochemistry.
Phone: (213) 740-5828
Email: berelson@usc.edu
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Mark Bernstein
Area of Expertise: Energy and environmental policy and politics, including economics of climate change.
Phone: (213) 821-2588
Email: mabernst@usc.edu
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David Bottjer
Area of Expertise: Fossils, origin of animal life, mass extinctions and evolution in the oceans.
Phone: (213) 740-6100
Email: dbottjer@usc.edu
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Douglas G. Capone
Area of Expertise: Marine microbial ecology, marine biogeochemistry, ocean ecosystems, bacteria and pollution.
Phone: (213) 740-2772
Email: capone@usc.edu
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David A. Caron
Area of Expertise: Harmful algal blooms, microbial ecology, marine food webs and trophic relationships among microorganisms, especially protists (microalgae and protozoa).
Phone: (213) 740-0203
Email: dcaron@usc.edu
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Frank Corsetti
Area of Expertise: Geobiology, early life on Earth and mass extinctions.
Phone: (213) 740-6123
Email: fcorsett@usc.edu
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Robert Douglas
Area of Expertise: Biostratigraphy, micropaleontology, marine paleoenvironments, paleoclimates and ocean history.
Phone: (213) 740-8275
Email: rdouglas@earth.usc.edu
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Linda Duguay
Area of Expertise: Biological oceanography, marine ecology (including Arctic and Antarctic ecosystems), marine and coastal resources, biology of gelatinous zooplankton, dredge spoil placement and effects on benthic communities, and studies of the urban ocean.
Phone: (213) 821-1335 or (213) 740-1960
Email: duguay@usc.edu
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Suzanne Edmands
Area of Expertise: Marine biology and ecology, evolution and population genetics, molecular genetic techniques and conservation biology.
Phone: (213) 740-5548
Email: sedmands@usc.edu
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Katrina Edwards
Area of Expertise: Geomicrobiology and microbial biogeochemistry, microbial life at or below the seafloor and microbial transformations of rocks.
Phone: (213) 821-4390
Email: kje@usc.edu
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Steven Finkel
Area of Expertise: Microbiology, bacteriology, microbial evolution, microbial survival and microbial fuel cells.
Phone: (213) 821-1498 or (213) 821-1497
Email: sfinkel@usc.edu
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Jed Fuhrman
Area of Expertise: Aquatic microbial ecology, marine viruses, marine bacteria, microbial biodiversity, biological oceanography, water quality and biological contaminants in ocean waters.
Phone: (213) 740-5757
Email: fuhrman@usc.edu
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Andrew Gracey
Area of Expertise: Effects of temperature, oxygen concentration and salinity on physiological processes of animals, evolutionary development of stress tolerance, hibernation, gene expression during environmental change, coping with extreme cold, genomics of surviving change, marine inter-tidal zones, sudden summer mortality syndrome in oysters and adaptations to climate change.
Phone: (213) 740-2288
Email: gracey@usc.edu
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Douglas E. Hammond
Area of Expertise: Environmental geology, geobiology and chemical oceanography.
Phone: (213) 740-5837 or (213) 740-6106
Email: dhammond@usc.edu
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Juliette Finzi Hart
Area of Expertise: Coastal marine policy, regional ocean governance, sustainable ecotourism, global climate science and policy and alternative ocean energy development.
Phone: (310) 796-9694
Email: jahart@usc.edu
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James Haw
Area of Expertise: Catalysts (chemicals that influence the speed and selectivity of chemical reactions), spectroscopic study of solid systems and chemical catalysis, nuclear magnetic resonance, computational chemistry, hydrocarbon/ petroleum chemistry, organic and physical chemistry, surface chemistry (the study of chemical reactions on solids).
Phone: (213) 740-1022
Email: jhaw@usc.edu
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Dennis Hedgecock
Area of Expertise: Population genetics, quantitative genetics, evolutionary genetics and conservation genetics of marine fish and shellfish; oyster aquaculture and genetics, impact of large hatchery programs on genetic diversity of wild populations, design of marine reserves and the impact of non-native species on ecosystems and fishery management issues.
Phone: (213) 821-2091
Email: dhedge@usc.edu
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John Heidelberg
Area of Expertise: Microbial genomics; genetic, biochemical and metabolic properties of naturally occurring planktonic assemblages; use of DNA sequencers to study the genomes of marine bacteria.
Phone: (310) 510-4040
Email: jheidelb@usc.edu
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Karla Heidelberg
Area of Expertise: Marine and environmental microbiology and ecology; genetic, biochemical, and metabolic properties of naturally occurring planktonic assemblages; environmental genomics.
Phone: (310) 510-4038
Email: kheidelb@usc.edu
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David Hutchins
Area of Expertise: Marine ecology, phytoplankton, the effects of climate change on the ocean, the effects of carbon dioxide and temperature increases on ocean food webs, organisms that benefit from "greenhouse ocean," the role of iron in marine food chain, harmful and toxic algal blooms, geobiology, marine ecology and biogeochemistry.
Phone: (213) 740-5616
Email: dahutch@usc.edu
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Myrna Jacobson
Area of Expertise: Marine biogeochemistry, artificial reef technology, plant-sediment interactions, nutrient cycling in coastal environments, wetland biogeochemistry enzymes as indicators of environmental response. Also use of cartoons to teach fundamental principles of science.
Phone: (213)740-5782
Email: myrnaj@usc.edu
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Burton Jones
Area of Expertise: Bio-optical oceanography, physical-biological interactions, coastal processes, and coastal ocean observing systems that use fixed sites and autonomous vehicles.
Phone: (213)740-5765
Email: bjones@usc.edu
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Dale Kiefer
Area of Expertise: Marine microbiology and biological oceanography, phytoplankton ecology and physiology, marine optics, and Antarctic seas.
Phone: (213) 740-5814
Email: kiefer@usc.edu
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Steve Lund
Area of Expertise: Geomagnetism, especially prehistoric variations of Earth's magnetic field; geological and fossil evidence of climate and ocean histories, microplate tectonics and geophysics.
Phone: (213) 740-5835
Email: slund@usc.edu
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Donal Manahan
Area of Expertise: Environmental physiology of marine animals, biological adaptations to environmental change (global warming), life in extreme environments including Antarctica and deep-sea vents, aquaculture of mollusks including oysters, polar science, International Polar Year, cold biosphere including the deep ocean, science policy and legislation and scientific research in California.
Phone: (213) 740-5793
Email: manahan@usc.edu
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James Moffett
Area of Expertise: Biogeochemistry in the ocean, speciation and oxidation-reduction chemistry of trace elements in natural waters, interactions of metal and phytoplankton, effects of protozoans on chemicals, and metal precipitation reactions mediated by bacteria.
Phone: (213) 740-5626
Email: jmoffett@usc.edu
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Kenneth Nealson
Area of Expertise: Geobiology, application of biochemistry and microbiology to understanding the evolution of microbial life in extreme environments (for example, under the ice at the Earth's South Pole), microbial genome sequencing and analysis, environmental microbiology, bioluminescence, biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology.
Phone: (213) 821-2271
Email: knealson@usc.edu
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Bill Nelson
Area of Expertise: Use of genomic and metagenomic techniques to study molecular evolution, ecology and community structure of microbes.
Phone: (310) 510-4097
Email: wcnelson@usc.edu
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Randy Olson
Area of Expertise: Marine biology, filmmaking and nature documentaries, science communication, ocean conservation and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia.
Phone: (213) 740-2995
Email: rolson@usc.edu
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John Peters
Area of Expertise: Occupational and environmental medicine, hazards in the workplace and environment and health effects of environmental exposures, especially to air pollution.
Phone: (323) 442-1096
Email: jpeters@usc.edu
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Adam Rose
Area of Expertise: Energy and environmental economics, the economics of natural and human-caused hazards including earthquakes and terrorist attacks, and climate change and energy policy.
Phone: (213) 740-8022
Email: Adam.Rose@usc.edu
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Sergio Sanudo-Wilhelmy
Area of Expertise: Environmental biogeochemistry, influence of bioactive substances on specific biological processes such as carbon and nitrogen fixation, and the impact of anthropogenic processes on environmental quality.
Phone: (213) 821-1302
Email: sanudo@usc.edu
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Wei-Min Shen
Area of Expertise: Autonomous underwater robots, artificial intelligence, machine learning and computational learning, robotics and intelligent systems, autonomous learning agents and robots, self-reconfigurable robots (mobile agents that can autonomously learn from their environment based on their own actions, perceptions and missions).
Phone: (310) 448-8710
Email: shen@isi.edu
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Astrid Schnetzer
Area of Expertise: Plankton food web dynamics, ecology of harmful and toxic algal blooms, zooplankton feeding ecology, microbial ecology and biogeochemical cycling, and microbial and protistan diversity
Phone: (213) 821-1800
Email: astrids@usc.edu
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Kathy Smith
Area of Expertise: Animation, sound design and painting.
Phone: (213 821 1348
Email: kates@usc.edu
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Thomas Spiegelhalter
Area of Expertise: Town planning and architecture, solar energy, low-energy urban and building systems integration, sustainable materials, advanced building energy simulation, environmental feasibility studies and design guidelines.
Phone: (213) 740-2083
Email: spiegelh@usc.edu
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Craig B. Stanford
Area of Expertise: Human evolution, primatology, primate behavior, primate societies and human behavior, tropical forest conservation, science vs. creationism, biological anthropology.
Phone: (213) 740-1900 or (213) 740-1918
Email: stanford@usc.edu
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Lowell Stott
Area of Expertise: Climate change, paleoclimatology and paleoceanography, fossil evidence of climate and ocean history, micropaleontology, microscopic fossils, stable isotope geochemistry, marine geology and monsoon history.
Phone: (213) 740-5120
Email: stott@usc.edu
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Gaurav S. Sukhatme
Area of Expertise: Robotics, mobile robotics, artificial intelligence, embedded systems (hand-held computers), intelligent agents and virtual reality.
Phone: (213) 740-0218
Email: gaurav@usc.edu
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Neal Sullivan
Area of Expertise: Oceanography and marine biology of polar region environments, structure and function of the ice covered ocean ecosystems in the context of global change, biological oceanography, marine biology, microbial physiological ecology, satellite remote sensing of polar oceans, and microbial communities in sea ice.
Phone: (213) 740-6712
Email: csulliva@usc.edu
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Eric Webb
Area of Expertise: Physiology and ecology of marine and freshwater cyanobacteria, especially the mechanisms they use to acquire an essential element, iron, from the environment.
Phone: (213)740-7954
Email: eawebb@usc.edu
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John Wilson
Area of Expertise: Geographical Information Systems (GIS), topographic analysis programs, field work, geostatistics, terrain analysis, soil erosion, crop productivity and water quality modeling, quantifying spatial patterns of climate, soil, vegetation and land use, spatial predictions of population growth and habitat change in Southern California.
Phone: (213) 740-1908
Email: jpwilson@usc.edu
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Wiebke Ziebis
Area of Expertise: Biogeochemical processes that take place in marine sediments, development of instruments for measurements at the sea floor, use of microsensors and radiotracers to study biogeochemical processes, and ecology of marine sediments, especially in extreme habitats such as methane seeps, hydrothermal vents and low oxygen environments.
Phone: (213) 821-1198
Email: wziebis@usc.edu
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