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. 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
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
Robert 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
Robin Overstreet
Emeritus
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
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
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