Faculty Directory
Dr. Leslie Acton
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
coastal and oceans governance; human geography; political ecology; common-pool resource (CPR) theory
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Oceanography 108
Dr. Mike Andres
Assistant Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
Parasitology, Fish Ecology, Conservation, Host-Parasite Evolution
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. Reg Blaylock
Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
Fish Diseases, Aquaculture
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
Dr. Kelly Darnell
Assistant Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
Benthic and coastal ecology; seagrass biology and ecology; seagrass reproductive ecology
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Caylor 216
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. Luke Fairbanks
Assistant Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
human geography, political ecology, and policy studies
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Oceanography 128
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
Associate 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. Frank Hernandez Jr
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
Fisheries Oceanography
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
Dr. Robert Leaf
Associate 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
Fisheries Ecology, Ichthyology, Gulf Sturgeon Conservation
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
on benthic ecology and fisheries ecology in marine, estuarine, and freshwater habitats
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Oceanography 131
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
Associate 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