Faculty Directory
Dr. Mike Andres
Assistant Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
Fisheries Ecology, Conservation, Fish Movements, Parasitology
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Fisheries Building 101
Dr. Patrick Biber
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
water quality, ecology, plant biology, plant physiology
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory 132
Dr. Zachary Darnell
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
Animal Behavior, Physiological Ecology, Marine Ecology, Fisheries
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
Kim De Mutsert
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
fish ecology, ecological modeling, estuarine ecology, coastal science
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Cedar Point Research Building 118B
Dr. Kevin Dillon
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
marine biogeochemistry, food web dynamics, groundwater hydrology, natural and artificial tracers
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
Joe Griffitt
Full Professor
Areas of Expertise
Ecotoxicology, genomics, bioinformatics
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Darrell Grimes
Emeritus
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Dr. Leila Hamdan
Full Professor
Areas of Expertise
Marine Microbial Ecology
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Cedar Point Research Bldg 120B
Dr. Robert Leaf
Full Professor
Areas of Expertise
Fisheries & Fisheries Oceanog.
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Howse Oceanography Building 119
Dr. Mark Peterson
Full Professor
Areas of Expertise
Marine ecology, Fisheries
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Fisheries Building Room 103
Eric Powell
Full Professor
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Professor Chet Rakocinski
Full Professor
Areas of Expertise
marine ecology
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Oceanography 131
Dr. Md Mamunur Rashid
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Coastal Hazards and Hydrometeorological Extremes
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Dr. Eric Saillant
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
Conservation genetics and genomics of marine organisms, Aquaculture Genetics/genomics, Breeding programs
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory 210B Aquaculture Research and Laboratory Bdg. Cedar Pt
Rachel Walker
Visiting Instructor
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Dr. Wei Wu
Full Professor
Areas of Expertise
Systems Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Hydrology, Biogeochemical Cycles, Modeling, Bayesian Statistics
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory 111