Mentors and Projects
For inquiries about mentors and their projects, please look over the mentor's webpages (linked to their names). If you still have questions, please email us at reu@csumb.edu. Please do not contact the mentors directly. Students who contact mentors may be removed from consideration for the REU.
Below is a selection of mentors across our research partners, which highlight the types of research available to students in our program.
| California State University Monterey Bay (糖心动漫vlog) | |
|---|---|
| Mentors | Research Themes |
| Dr. Alison Haupt | Population Genetics, Land-Sea Connections, Kelp Forest and Coastal Ecology, Anthropogenic Impacts on Ecosystems |
| Ecology and Evolution of Bacteria in Symbiotic and Microbiome Interactions with Marine Animals | |
| Dr. Arlene Haffa | Agricultural Nutrient and Pesticide Management to Reduce Greenhouse Gases, and Water Contamination |
| Marine Physiology, Climate Change Stress Physiology, Ecological Forecasting, Ocean Climate Change Policy | |
| Dr. Dan Fernandez | Fog Water Collection and Measurement |
| Dr. James Lindholm | Fish Ecology |
| Dr. John Olson | Freshwater Ecology, Invasive Species, Microplastics, Coastal Rivers |
| Role of Native Microbial Communities on Plant Community Assembly in Coastal Marshes, Influence of Plant-Invasion and Establishment of Non-Native Species | |
| Population and Ecological Genomics of Fishes and Marine Mammals, Environmental DNA, Conservation Genetics | |
| Dr. Nate Jue | Evolutionary Genomics of Marine Organisms |
| Hopkins Marine Station (HMS) | |
|---|---|
| Mentors | Research Themes |
| Developmental Biology | |
| Population Biology | |
| Marine Population Dynamics | |
| Dr. Jeremy Goldbogen | Marine Mammal Science, Biomechanics and Physiological Ecology |
| Marine Ecology and Conservation | |
| Dr. Steve Palumbi | Molecular Ecology |
| Marine Developmental Biology | |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) | |
|---|---|
| Dr. Mariana Bernardi Bif | Biogeochemistry, Carbon Cycle |
| Biological Oceanography | |
| Danelle Cline and | Passive Acoustic Monitoring |
| Climate Change, Ocean Acidification, Hypoxia, El Niño, Observational Genomics | |
| Ocean Engineering, Autonomous Technology, Oceanography | |
| Deep-sea Ecology | |
| Biology and Ecology of Marine Benthic Communities | |
| Bioinspired Design | |
| Chemical Sensor Development, Coral Reef Metabolism and Biogeochemistry, Seawater CO2 Chemistry, Benthic Fluxes, and Seagrass and Kelp Forest Biogeochemistry | |
| Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) | |
|---|---|
| Mentors | Research Themes |
| Invertebrate Ecology: Trophic Ecology, Suspension Feeders, Natural History of Marine Invertebrates | |
| Marine Mammal and Seabird Ecology, Physiological Ecology and Polar Science | |
| Macroalgal Ecology | |
| Environmental Biotechnology | |
| Marine Geology | |
| Aquaculture, Nutrition, Genomics, Physiology | |
| Chemical Oceanography, Analytical Chemistry, Nutrient & Trace Metal Cycling | |
| Algal Ecology | |
| Phytoplankton, Diatoms, Genomics | |
| Fish Ecology | |
| Physical Oceanography | |
| Marine Ecophysiology | |
| Computational Oceanography | |
| Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) | |
|---|---|
| Mentors | Research Themes |
| Dr. Jamie MacMahan | Oceanography, Surf Zone and Inner Shelf Processes |
| Acoustics and Marine Mammal Acoustic Signatures | |
| Coastal Ocean and Estuary Processes | |
| Air-Sea Interactions | |
| Double Diffusion and Turbulent Processes | |
| Coastal and Marine Meteorology | |
| Arctic Earth Systems | |