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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.

Gemmel is an integrative biologist whose interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of biology and physics. He is interested in the role of animal-fluid interactions in the marine environment and how they govern biological factors such as predator-prey interactions as well as large-scale ecosystem processes and evolutionary relationships.

Barnes has been a research associate in the Optical Oceanography Lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science since 2015. His research focuses on assessment and monitoring of coastal systems from satellite remote sensing platforms. In particular, he is working to improve satellite derivations of water quality and benthic classification in optically shallow marine environments, including coral reefs and seagrass beds.

Research areas include fisheries biology and ecosystem and resource management. His focus areas include fisheries management, food webs, population dynamics, marine ecosystems and population modeling.

Research areas include technology applications, autonomous systems, AUVs, ROVs, sensor development, circulation measurement, harmful algal bloom evolution, fish stock analysis, habitat mapping, water column analysis, seafloor measurements and mapping.

Chappell studies marine microbial ecology, marine microbiology, phytoplankton physiology, trace metal biogeochemistry and nitrogen fixation.

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.

Parkinson's research lab uses genomic techniques to examine the ecology and evolution of coral-algal symbioses and involves diving on reefs in the field, maintaining coral and algal cultures to experiment with in the laboratory, and translating findings into guidance for coral restoration and conservation practitioners in Florida and beyond.

Daly studies zooplankton ecology with the aim of understanding the physical and biological factors that control the abundance and distribution of zooplankton and the role of zooplankton in marine food webs, biogeochemical cycles and fisheries oceanography. Recent projects include lower trophic food web response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the role of marine snow in the sedimentation of Deepwater Horizon oil to the sea floor and ecosystem dynamics and predator-prey interactions in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, using the SCINI remotely operated vehicle with a variety of sensors.

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.

Research areas include Maritime Safety and Security, Real-Time Ocean Observation Systems, Numerical Models of Ocean Circulation and Coastal Water Quality.

Specialties include Numerical Modeling of Ocean Dynamics, Coastal and Estuarine Dynamics, Real-Time Oceanographic Observing Systems, Operational Oceanography, Maritime Transportation, Marine Ecosystems and Ocean Environment.