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Murphy's research focuses on oil spills, fluid mechanics, animal biomechanics, collective animal behavior and cardiovascular fluid mechanics. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2019 for his work on the fluid dynamics of biological propulsion in tiny insects and zooplankton.

Liu is a physical oceanographer and director of the Ocean Circulation Lab at the USF College of Marine Science. His research focuses on coastal ocean observations and modeling to monitor and forecast problems such as red tide, storm surge, pollution and sargassum. He aims to better understand the coastal ocean circulation and air-sea interactions on the West Florida Shelf, including the exchanges of water properties between the estuaries, the shelf and the offshore (Loop Current) system of the Gulf of America.