Experts Guide

Shevenell's research focuses on climate change, climate history, ocean temperature, ice sheet instability, marine microfossils and sea level rise history.

Dixon is director of the Geospatial Analytics Lab and executive director of the Initiative on Coastal Adaptation and Resilience at USF. Her research includes development of a web-based application that gathers crowdsourced data in coastal communities to identify flood risks and inform emergency managers and policy, and development and application of tools and systems for modeling and managing land-water interfaces in the context of extreme weather events and climate change.

Research areas include paleoceanography/paleoclimate, stable isotopes, carbon cycling. His specialties include climate change, oceanography, stable isotope geochemistry, radiocarbon dating, oceanic petroleum pollution and marine ecosystems.

Seibel's research focuses on the physiological response of marine animals to extreme environments, ocean acidification, deoxygenation and warming, polar and deep-sea biology, biology of mollusks. His specialties include polar biology, biology of mollusks and ocean acidification.

Chambers uses satellite observations such as radar altimetry and satellite gravimetry to better understand ocean dynamics. His primary research focus is quantifying and understanding sea level variability, especially trying to separate natural climate variability from anthropogenic climate change. He studies the dynamic processes that cause sea level change, including ocean circulation, ocean heat storage, ocean mass redistribution and influx of fresh water from the continents and ice sheets.

Muller-Karger's research areas include changes in marine ecosystems using field-based and satellite remote sensing time series. His interests include STEM education, marine productivity and nutrients, biodiversity, pollution and ecosystems; ocean environments, climate and temperature change; and sea level change.

O'Leary is an anthropologist and scholar of the human dimensions of water. She leads CRESCENDO (Communicating Research Expansively through Sonification and Community-Engaged Neuroaesthetic Data-literacy Opportunities), an innovative interdisciplinary project that reimagines how environmental data is communicated. CRESCENDO translates complex data from critical issues like harmful algal blooms and red tide into immersive experiences that bridge the gap between scientific research and public understanding.

Jermier is a professor in the School of Management where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in organizational theory and behavior, corporate environmentalism and environmental policy, and the measurement of organizational change and effectiveness. He also serves as a professor of sustainable enterprise research in the Patel College of Global Sustainability.

Research areas include Interactions between marine microbes, microbial symbioses, phytoplankton community dynamics in coastal and open ocean systems, harmful algal blooms and extreme events.

Specialties include Microbiology, Phytoplankton ecology, Meta 'omics and Bioinformatics.

Rafter studies marine carbon cycling and climate from the past, present and future and the influence of greenhouse gases on climate events such as El Niño.

Murawski studies population dynamics of exploited marine species, impacts of fishing and other anthropogenic stresses on marine ecosystems and ecosystem modeling and analysis. His areas of focus include fisheries biology, marine ecology, pollution impacts and ocean mapping and undersea technologies.

Frazer is a Professor and Dean of the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida. Prior to his arrival at USF, Dr. Frazer was Director of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Florida and served also as Chief Science Officer for the State of Florida. Dr. Frazer holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fisheries Biology from Humboldt State University and a Master’s Degree in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences from the University of Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research addresses contemporary and emerging environmental issues, and is, by nature, interdisciplinary.

Tang studies biogeochemistry and climate change, nitrogen isotopes, nitrogen and carbon cycling, marine productivity, greenhouse gases and machine learning.