Benitez-Nelson, Claudia (cbnelson@geol.sc.edu)
-Assistant Professor of Marine Science and Geological Sciences
-Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1999. Biogeochemistry, Chemical Oceanography.

Research: Particle formation and flux, phosphorus biogeochemistry, and natural and anthropogenic climate change. Field areas include the Black Sea, Cariaco Basin, Barents Sea, and Hawaii.

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Benner, Ronald (benner@biol.sc.edu)
-Professor of Marine Science and Biological Sciences.
-Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1984. Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology.

Research: The cycling of C, N and P in aquatic environments using field and laboratory approaches. The roles of microorganisms as producers and consumers of organic matter and the linkages among terrestrial, atmospheric and aquatic components of the biosphere are investigated. Field areas include the Arctic and the Sargasso Sea.

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Bulusu, Subrahmanyam (sbulusu@geol.sc.edu)
Assistant Professor of Marine Science Program and Geological Sciences
- Ph.D. University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 1998. Satellite Oceanography.

Uses satellites to examine ocean color, sea level height, mesoscale processes, and ocean circulation.

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Feller, Robert J. (feller@biol.sc.edu)
-Professor of Marine Science and Biological Sciences;
-Ph.D., School of Oceanography, University of Washington, 1977. Benthic ecology, food web interactions, biological oceanography, shrimp farming, marine science education.

Research: Feeding rates and impacts of predation by epibenthic fauna on benthos. Habitats studied include intertidal mud and sand flats, shallow subtidal and intertidal saltmarsh, continental slope, deep sea, both Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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Fletcher, Madilyn (fletcher@sc.edu)
Professor of Marine Science and Biological Sciences; Director School of the Environment
-Ph.D. University College of North Wales, Bangor, U.K. 1975. Marine Biology. Microbial ecology, coastal ecology, Coastal Ocean Observing Programs.

Research: Microbial adhesion to solid surfaces, bacterial biofilm phenomena, and ecology of microbial communities. Involved in the development, implementation, and operation of southeastern regional coastal observing systems, as part of the national Integrated Ocean Observing System.

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Pinckney, James L (jpinckney@biol.sc.edu)
Associate Professor of Marine Science and Biological Sciences
-Marine and Microbial Ecology, Biological Oceanography, Biometry and Statistics
- Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1992. Marine Ecology, Microbial Ecology, Phycology, Biometry.

Research: Ecosystem-level processes that influence community structure and function in estuarine, coastal, and extreme habitats. Field research is being conducted in the Bahamas (San Salvador Island), Gulf of Mexico, North Inlet Estuary (SC), and Galveston Bay (TX).

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Quattro, Joseph M. (quattro@biol.sc.edu)
Associate Professor of Marine Science and Biological Sciences
-Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1991. Population and Conservation Genetics, Molecular Evolution.

Research: Population genetics of rare, threatened or endangered fishes, including freshwater Carolina endemic fishes, marine fishes and elasmobranches; and gene expression patterns that attend exposure to contaminants in marine sentinel species (grass shrimp, silversides, mummichogs).

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Richardson, Tammi (richardson@biol.sc.edu)
Assistant Professor of Marine Science and Biological Sciences
- Ph.D., Dalhousie University (Canada), 1996. Biological Oceanography, phytoplankton physiology and ecology including primary production, carbon and nitrogen cycling.

Research: Photosynthesis, nutrient uptake and growth in marine phytoplankton and the role of phytoplankton in aquatic food webs, carbon and nitrogen cycling.

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Shaw, Timothy J. (shaw@mail.chem.sc.edu)
Associate Professor of Marine Science and Chemistry and Biochemistry
-Ph.D. Scripps Institute of Oceanography. 1988. Trace Element Geochemistry, Environmental Analytical Chemistry.

Research: Trace element geochemistry and development of new techniques for examining trace elements of both anthropogenic and natural origin in the environment. Study areas include the southeastern coast of the U.S. and the German Wadden Sea.

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Stancyk, Stephen E.(stancyk@sc.edu)
Professor of Marine Science and Biological Sciences;
-Ph.D., University of Florida, 1974. Marine Ecology, Invertebrate Zoology, Reproductive Ecology.

Research: Life histories of echinoderms, particularly regeneration, predation and behavior. Field areas include Southeast U.S., the Caribbean, New Zealand, Brazil.

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Styles, Richard (rstyles@geol.sc.edu)
Assistant Professor of Marine and Geological Sciences
-Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1998. Coastal Physical Oceanography and Coastal Wetlands Physics.

Research: Bottom boundary layer turbulence, sediment transport, bed form morphology, and estuarine, marsh and river hydrodynamics. Research strategy includes an observational and theoretical approach to examine environmental issues within the southeastern United States.

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Voulgaris, George (gvoulgaris@geol.sc.edu)
Associate Professor of Marine Science and Geological Sciences
-Ph.D., University of Southampton, 1992. Oceanography. Coastal Processes and Sediment Dynamics.

Research: Utilize field data and numerical models to examine current circulation and wave propagation in coastal and estuarine environments. Coastal erosion, sediment resuspension and accumulation as well as contaminant and organic material transport in various environments throughout the world are areas of active research.
LAB homepage: http://www.geol.sc.edu/gvoulgar/cpsdlab.html

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Williams, Douglas F. (drdoug@sc.rr.com)
Carolina Trustee Professor of Marine Science and Geological Sciences,
-PhD, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 1976. Geological Oceanography, Geochemistry.

Involvement of undergraduate and graduate students in the study of paleoclimate change and coastal processes in Russia, Mongolia, South Carolina and the Caribbean.
-Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Biogenic Carbonates and Organic Matter as Applied to Problems in Paleoecology, Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology, Paleolimnology and Chemical Stratigraphy.

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Yankovsky, Alexander (Sasha). (ayankovsky@geol.sc.edu )
Assistant Professor of Marine Science and Geological Science
-Ph.D., Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Sevastopol, USSR (Ukraine), 1991. Coastal physical oceanography, wave dynamics.

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Associate Marine Science Faculty

Aelion, Marjorie (aelionm@sc.edu)
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Marine Science
-Environmental Quality and Hazardous Materials Management Program Area.
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Allen, Dennis (dallen@belle.baruch.sc.edu)
Research Professor of Marine Science, Instructor at the Baruch Marine Field Laboratory, Georgetown, SC
-Estuarine and Coastal Ecology; Behavioral Ecology of Nekton and Zooplankton; Habitat Selection, Migration, production, and Nutrient Processing and Transport by Estuarine fishes, shrimps and crabs.
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Chandler, G. Thomas (tchandler@sophe.sph.sc.edu)
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Marine Science; Chair of Environmental Health Sciences Department
-Marine Ecotoxicology; Benthic Ecology; Foraminiferal Culture and Ecology.
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Cohen, Arthur D. (cohen@geol.sc.edu)
Professor of Geological Sciences and Marine Science
- Paleoecology, Palynology, Wetlands Restoration, Hazardous Waste and Groundwater Remediation Utilizing Organics, Coal and Peat Petrology; Holocene Climate and Sea-Level Changes; Peat Resources and Utilization.
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Decho, Alan W. (awdecho@gwm.sc.edu)
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Marine Science
-Marine Environmental Processes; Microbial Ecology; Biofilm Processes; Benthic Ecology; Trophic-Transfer of Contaminants; Animal-Microbial Feeding Relationships; Bioavailability. Research studies are conducted in Exuma Cays, Bahamas.
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Eagle, Josh (eagle@law.sc.edu)
Assistant Professor of Law and Marine Science
-Ocean zoning, marine protected areas, and improving public participation in resource decision-making.
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Ferguson, P. Lee (lee.ferguson@sc.edu)
Assistant Professor - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
-High performance mass spectrometry, environmental analytical chemistry, application of proteomics to problems in environmental toxicology, instrument development for time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
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Ferry, John (ferry@mail.chm.sc.edu)
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Marine Science
-Environmental chemistry; fate and transport of organic chemicals in the environment, photochemically driven oxidation, photocatalysis, trace organic analysis, phytoremediation, multivariate modeling.
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Helmuth, Brian (helmuth@biol.sc.edu)
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Marine Science
-Physical Biology of Marine Invertebrates, Biomechanics, Intertidal and Subtidal Physiological Ecology
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Hilbish, Thomas J. (hilbish@biol.sc.edu)
Professor of Biological Sciences and Marine Science
-Ecological Genetics; Physiological Ecology of Marine Invertebrates
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Lakshmi, Venkat (vlakshmi@geol.sc.edu)
Associate Professor of Geological Sciences and Marine Science
-Hydrogeology; Satellite Remote Sensing
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Long, Richard (rlong@biol.sc.edu)
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Marine Science
-Environmental Microbiology
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Lovell, Charles R. (lovell@biol.sc.edu)
Professor of Biological Sciences and Marine Science
-Microbial and Molecular Ecology; Anaerobic Microbiology
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Morris, James T. (morris@biol.sc.edu)
Professor of Biological Sciences and Marine Science
-Plant Physiological Ecology; Wetlands Ecology
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Neubaur, Scott (scott@belle.baruch.sc.edu)
Assistant Director/Research Assistant Professor
-Wetland Biogeochemistry; Wetland Ecology; Microbial Ecology
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Norman, Sean (rsnorman@gwm.sc.edu)
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
-Microbial Communities
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Porter, Dwayne E. (porter@sc.edu)
Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Marine Science
-Geographic Information Processing (GIP) of Anthropogenic and Physiographic Influences to Coastal Resources
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Shervette, Virginia. (shervette@sc.edu)
Assistant Research Professor of the Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences
--Estuarine ecology of fishes and invertebrates, costal policy issues, estuarine health monitoring, community ecology, essential fish habitat (EFH), human dimensions of fisheries management, Coastal Zone Management (CZM).
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Showman, Richard M. (showman@biol.sc.edu)
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Marine Science
-Developmental and Molecular Biology
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Smith, Erik (erik@belle.baruch.sc.edu)
Associate Professor of Marine Science
-Estuarine ecology; Aquatic microbial ecology; Carbon and nutrient biogeochemistry; Coastal eutrophication
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Thunell, Robert (thunell@geol.sc.edu)
Director, Marine Science Program,
Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences and Marine Science
-Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology, Deep Sea Sediments; Reconstructing paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic conditions using deep sea sediments; measuring the production and flux of sediments in the ocean; calibration of paleoclimate proxies.
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Twining, Benjamin (twining@mail.chem.sc.edu)
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Marine Science
-Analytical/Environmental Chemistry Research areas: trace metal geochemistry, metal-plankton interactions, metal speciation and redox chemistry, X-ray microscopy, marine microbial ecology, phytoplankton physiology, ocean biogeochemistry
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Torres, Raymond (torres@geol.sc.edu)
Associate Professor of Geological Sciences and Marine Science
-Coastal Geomorpohology; Coastal Hydrology; Runoff Processes
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Vogt, Richard G (vogt@biol.sc.edu)
Professor of  Biological Sciences and Marine Science
-Comparative Biologist, Molecular Mechanisms underlying Physiological and Behavior Processes.
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Wethey, David S. (wethey@rocky.geol.sc.edu)
Professor of Biological Sciences and Marine Science
-Population and Community Ecology, Biogeography, and Rocky Intertidal Ecology
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White, Scott M. (swhite@geol.sc.edu)
Assistant Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics
-Seafloor geomorphic processes-seafloor mapping (multibeam bathymetry, sidescan sonar, sub-bottom profiling, magnetics), Environmental Geophysics (resistivity/IP, gravity, magnetics, GPR) and interpreting/modeling results using GIS.
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Wilde, Susan (wildes@dnr.sc.gov)
Harmful Algal Blooms in Freshwater, Brackish and Marine Systems; Epiphytic Cyanobacteria, Invasive Aquatic Macrophytes, and Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy; Influence of Eutrophication on Phytoplankton Community Structure.
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Wilson, Alicia (awilson@sc.edu)
Associate Professor of Hydrology
-Hydrology, groundwater and geologic processes, variable-density fluid flow, numerical modeling, physical and chemical evolution of fluid flow systems.
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Woodin, Sarah A. (woodin@biol.sc.edu)
Professor of Biological Sciences and Marine Science
-Marine Benthic Ecology, Recruitment Processes, Biogenic Disturbance, Chemical Ecology
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Marine Science Research Faculty

Allen, Wendy (wendy@belle.baruch.sc.edu)
Instructor at the Baruch Marine Field Laboratory, Georgetown, SC
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Moore, Willard (moore@geol.sc.edu)
Professor of Geological Sciences Research areas: Geochemistry and Chemical Oceanography
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Distinguished Professor Emeriti

Coull, Bruce C. (bccoull@sc.edu)
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Marine Science and Biological Sciences;
-Ph.D., Lehigh University, 1968. Marine benthic ecology.
-Research: The role of juvenile fish predation on meiofauna, and lethal and sublethal effects of sediment bound contaminants (heavy metals, PCB's, etc.) on meiofaunal population and diversity.
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Dean, John Mark (jmdean@sc.edu)
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Marine Science and Biological Sciences;
-Age and Growth of Fishes, Estuarine Ecology and Fisheries Management
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Gardner, L. Robert (gardner@geol.sc.edu)
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences and Marine Science
-Aqueous Geochemistry and Geomorphology; the Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Soils and Saprolites; Origin of Caliche; Geologic and Geochemical Processes in Salt Marshes; Watershed Biogeochemistry; Modeling of Geochemical Processes in Aqueous Systems.
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Zingmark, Richard G. (zingmark@biol.sc.edu)
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Marine Science and Biological Sciences
-U.C. Santa Barbara, 1969.
Physiological Ecology of Marine Algae. Studies patterns and the functional significance of algal communities in estuarine, coral reef and mangrove ecosystems
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Marine Science Adjunct Faculty
Bushek, David (bushek@hsrl.rutgers.edu)
Haskins Shellfish Research Laboratory, Rutgers University

Coen, Loren D. (lcoen@sccf.org)
Director, Marine Lab, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (Sanibel, FL)
http://www.sccf.org/mlab_index.htm
http://www.cofc.edu/~marine/
http://www.oyster-restoration.org

Cross, Randall ( recross@gwm.sc.edu )
Associate Professor

Curran, Mary Carla (curranc@savstate.edu)
Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Savannah State University.

Davidson Margaret (margaret.davidson@noaa.gov )
NOAA

Davis, Braxton (braxton.davis@sc.edu )
Belle Baruch Institute

Hendrik W. Van der Veer (veer@nioz.nl)
NIOZ

Heyman, William D. (heymanwill@yahoo.com)
Texas A & M University

Holland, Fred (Fred.Holland@noaa.gov)
Hollings Marine Laboratory/NOAA

Marinelli, Roberta L. (marinelli@clb.umces.edu)
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (University of Maryland)

Militello, Adele (CoastalAnalysis@cox.net )
Coastal Analysis, LLC (Eureka, California)

Reichert, Marcel J.M.(reichert@biol.sc.edu)
DNR

Sandifer, Paul (paul.sandifer@noaa.gov)
Centers for Coastal Ocean Sciences/NOA

Smith, Erik (erik@belle.baruch.sc.edu)
Belle Baruch Institute

Smith, Garriet (smithres@aiken.sc.edu)
University of South Carolina at Aiken

Spence, Lundie (Lundie.spence@scseagrant.org)
COSEE SE
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