Potential Faculty Advisors

Dr. Jade Guedes: Foraging practices and agricultural strategies of humans and the resilience developed in response to climatic and social change. 

Dr. Isabel Rivera-Collazo: Interface of climate hazards threatening heritage and the prioritization of action to mitigate climate-related impacts.

Dr. Elsa Cleland: Ecological and evolutionary responses to global change in native and invasive plants in Southern California ecosystems.

Dr. Shermin de Silva: Maintaining the integrity and functionality of socioecological systems in the context of anthropogenic change, centered around concepts of sustainability and resilience. 

Dr. David Holway: Biological invasions of species into new environments and threatened plant-pollinator interactions.

Dr. Sarah Jackrel: How variation within species alters plant-microbe interactions in ecological communities and ecosystems. 

Dr. Carolyn Kurle: Measuring animal foraging ecology, feeding interactions, resource dynamics, and population trajectories in an ecosystem structure.

Dr. James Nieh: Natural and man-made stressors of social honey bees. 

Dr. Diana Rennison: Evolution and maintenance of biodiversity through anthropogenic disturbance with stickleback fish. 

Dr. Noah Rose: Evolutionary responses and adaptation of mosquitoes to the development of human societies.

Dr. Patrick Rohner: Evolution and development of insects, focusing on how organism-environment interactions shape phenotypes. 

Dr. Johnathan Shurin: Variation and structure of aquatic ecosystems, and the importance of evolutionary change for ecological processes. 

Dr. Kaustuv Roy: Large-scale spatial gradients in biodiversity and how they are impacted by climate change.

Dr. Scott Rifkin: Structure and mechanics of developmental and physiological processes amplify genetic, environmental, and stochastic variation.

Dr. Julian Schroeder: Molecular mechanisms of plant response to abiotic stresses such as climate change.

Dr. Michael Burkart: Biosynthesis and renewable fuels and materials utilizing algae. 

Dr. Vicki Grassian: Impacts of environmental interfaces - organic and inorganic. 

Dr. Ram Ramanathan: Climate change mitigation and adaptation in atmospheric chemistry. 

Dr. Ralph Keeling: Variations in atmospheric oxygen and the global carbon cycle.

Dr. Neal Driscoll: Seascape evolution in response to sea-level fluctuations and climate change. 

Dr. Helen Fricker: Ice in the climate system at the Scripps Glaciology Group. 

Dr. Jeffrey Severinghaus: Quantification of abrupt temperature changes using isotopes in ice cores

Dr. Jane Willenbring: Using cosmic radiation to study dynamic interactions of life, landscape, and atmosphere through the evolution of Earth’s surface.

Dr. Andreas Andersson: Ocean acidification and marine chemistry impacts on coastal ocean and coral reefs. 

Dr. Mark Merrifield: Sea-level rise and climate variability in coastal oceanography and nearshore 

processes. 

Dr. Richard Norris: Geologic record of past warm periods in predicting Earth’s response to future climate change. 

Dr. Jennifer Smith: Human Impacts on tropical and local environments and strategies for restoration and preservation. 

Dr. Stuart Sandin: Structure and function of marine communities.

Dr. Fonna Forman: Climate change solutions and research into carbon neutrality. 

Dr. Lawrence Frank: Interactions between land use, travel behavior, air quality, and health; and how climate change impacts urban policies. 

Dr. Mai Thi Nguyen: Social and spatial equity in planning and policy topics related to housing, immigration, and climate change.

Dr. Keith Pezzoli: Improve public reasoning in sustainability planning, policy, and design. 

Dr. Michael Davidson: Engineering implications, institutional conflicts, and global value chains inherent to deploying low-carbon energy.