Faculty
Professor
Vice President for Research
Geological Oceanography: Paleoceanography, Biotic Response to Climate Variability
Professor
Regents Professor and William R. Bryant Chair in Oceanography; Associate Editor, Journal of Plankton Research, 2018-2021
Biological Oceanography: Phytoplankton; Harmful Algal Blooms
Professor
Louis & Elizabeth Scherck Chair in Oceanography
Professor
Team Leader Ocean Observing, GERG
Professor, Ocean Engineering Department (Courtesy Joint Appointment)
Associate Professor
Chemical Oceanography: Trace metal biogeochemistry, nutrients, pollutants, colloids, isotopes, hydrothermal vents, polar oceanography
Assistant Professor
Microbial ecology, Single-celled microbial eukaryotes (protists), Microbial community diversity, Predator-prey interactions, Food web dynamics, Time-series
Visiting Assistant Professor
Physical Oceanography: Ocean Transport, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Eddies, Isopycnal Mixing, Vertical Mixing, Last Glacial Maximum
Professor
Director, GERG
Holder of the James R. Whatley Chair in Geosciences
Assistant Professor
Analytical Chemistry Research and Development Team Lead, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group
Professor
Physical Oceanography: Climate Change; Polar Oceans; Thermohaline Circulation
Associate Research Professor
Director of Texas Sea Grant
Biological Oceanography: Behavior of Marine Vertebrates, Feeding Ecology
Associate Professor
Chemical Oceanography: Ocean Acidification, Seawater Carbonate Chemistry, Coastal Ocean Carbon Cycling, Calcifying Marine Ecosystems
Professor
Geological Oceanography: Paleoceanography; High-resolution Seafloor Mapping and Seismic Stratigraphy
Associate Professor
Biological Oceanography: Geomicrobiology, Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry
Professor
Executive Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs of Texas A&M University at Galveston and Associate Provost of Texas A&M University
Geological Oceanography: Paleoceanography; Sediment Geochemistry; Greenhouse Climates
Professor
Phytoplankton, diatoms, biogeochemistry, biogenic aerosol, sea spray aerosol, ice nucleating particles (INP), ice nucleation, exopolymer particles, nitrogen cycle, carbon cycle
Instructional Associate Professor
Associate Department Head
Professor
Department Head
Chemical Oceanography: Trace Gas Biogeochemistry
Assistant Professor
Global carbon/biogeochemical cycles, Earth-surface processes, Climate change, Data Science, Geological application development
Associate Professor
Geological Oceanography: Past and future climate change; Organic and isotope geochemistry; Global biogeochemical cycles
Joint Appointed Faculty
Professor
Chemical Oceanography: Biogeochemistry, Gliders
Associate Professor
Geological Oceanography: Seabed Dynamics; Sediment Processes
Professor
Jane and Ken R. Williams ’45 Chair in Ocean Drilling Science, Technology and Education
Radiogenic isotope geochemistry, geochemical proxies of climate change, environmental geochemistry
Regents Professor
Senior Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University at Galveston
Biological Oceanography; Biotic Response to Climate Variability, Phytoplankton
Regents Professor
Chemical Oceanography: Marine and Environmental Geochemistry
Professor
Department Head
Variability and predictability of climate on seasonal to millennial timescales, coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction, large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere and the oceans
Professor
Physical Oceanography: turbulence, mixing, inlet dynamics, deep ocean multiphase plumes
Assistant Professor
Geological Oceanography: paleoclimate change, coastal geosciences
University Distinguished Professor and David Bullock Harris Chair in Geosciences
Associate Dean for Research
Atmospheric radiative transfer, remote sensing, numerical modeling of the optical properties of nonspherical particles and its applications