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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Rosemary G. Gillespie

Rosemary G. Gillespie

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

systematics, insect biology, evolution and conservation biology, spiders, oceanic islands

Dept of Geography

geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean

Aila Matanock at work in Berkeley

Dept of Political Science

post-conflict elections, policing, peace processes, civil conflict, foreign intervention, armed actor governance, armed actor social support, counterinsurgency, survey experiments, mixed-method research design, Central America, Colombia, Solomon Islands, West Africa

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Wave Mechanics, ocean and coastal waves phenomena, ocean renewable energy (wave, Tide and Offshore Wind Energy), Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Fluid Flow Control, ocean renewable energy

Richmond Sarpong

Richmond Sarpong

Dept of Chemistry

organic and organometallic chemistry

James K. B. Bishop

James K. B. Bishop

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

ocean carbon cycle dynamics, remote sensing, aquatic chemistry, marine biogeochemistry, land - ocean biogeochemistry, chemical oceanography, ocean sensors and autonomous observing systems, Carbon Explorer, Carbon Flux Explorer

Thomas Maimone in lab setting

Dept of Chemistry

organic synthesis, total synthesis, natural products chemistry, catalysis, synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry, drug discovery

Daniel Stolper in lab setting

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

biogeochemistry, earth history, geobiology, global climate studies, organic geochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry

Omar Yaghi in lab

Dept of Chemistry

Reticular Chemistry, metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, Carbon Capture, gas storage systems, water harvesting from desert air

Alanna Schepartz

Alanna Schepartz

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chemical biology, synthetic biology, organic chemistry, biophysics

John F. Hartwig

John F. Hartwig

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, catalysis, organic chemistry

John Chiang

Dept of Geography

climate change, climate dynamics, ocean-atmosphere interactions, paleoclimate

Brooks Abel

Dept of Chemistry

Polymer Chemistry, organic chemistry, stereoselective catalysis, polymer recycling

Robert G. Bergman

Dept of Chemistry

organic and inorganic chemistry: synthesis and reaction mechanisms, organotransition metal compounds, homogeneous catalysis

Matthew B. Francis

Matthew B. Francis

Dept of Chemistry

materials chemistry, drug delivery, organic chemistry, Protein modification, artificial photosynthesis, water purification

Kristin Persson holding molecule model

Kristin Persson

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

Lithium-ion Batteries, multivalent batteries, organic electrolytes, polar materials, datamining of materials properties for energy applications

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

marine ecology, land-sea connectivity, coastal resilience, geospatial data, ocean policy and governance, social-ecological dynamics, coral reef, California current system

Felix Raoul Fischer

Felix Raoul Fischer

Dept of Chemistry

Organic and Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Molecular Electronics, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Graphene Nanomaterials

Alexis Kaminski in outdoor setting

Alexis Kaminski

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

fluid dynamics, stratified flows, upper-ocean dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, mixing, internal waves, shear instabilities

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

algorithms, fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, atmospheric flows, convection, ocean flows, numerical analysis, wind energy, Bayesian optimization, neural networks, turbulence, planet formation, internal gravity waves, inertial waves, desalination, protoplanetary disks

Bethanie Edwards

Bethanie Edwards

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

oceanography, chemical oceanography, environmental microbiology, molecular tools for microbial ecology, mass spectrometry, lipidomics, lipid metabolism, marine biogeochemistry, microbial carbon cycling, ocean carbon cycle dynamics

Sugata Ray

Dept of History of Art

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

climate change, early modern, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, art history, environment, globalization, ecology, Eco Art History, global art history

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, diabetes, protein phosphorylation, fundamental signal transduction pathways in cells and whole organisms, kinase, drug development, asthma, multiple forms of cancer, neurological disorders, drug addiction

Abe smiling while standing by an oak tree near the music department building.

Marié Abe

sound and space, ethnography, human geography, sound studies, music and social movements, affect and the body, Japanese popular performing arts, critical ocean studies, public ethnomusicology

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biogeochemistry, iron reduction, metals and contaminants, soil aggregates, selenium kinetics of organic matter degradation, nitrate reduction, soil and environmental biogeophysics, biogeochemical cycles, fate and transport of nutrients, sulfate reduction, wetland soils, littoral sediments, spatial variation in biogeochemical processes