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Michael G. Brown: Ocean acoustics; surface gravity waves; Lagrangian ocean dynamics; low-order models of climate and ocean dynamics; exploration geophysics.
Shuyi S. Chen : Mesoscale and tropical meteorology, atmospheric convection, air-sea interactions, coastal meteorology, and numerical weather prediction.
Bruce A. Albrecht : Atmospheric Convection, Boundary Layer Structure and Clouds, Cloud-Climate Interactions, Tropical Meteorology, Remote Sensing.
David A. Chin: Water resources engineering, hydrologic fate and transport processes; stochastic processes.
James D. Happell: Transient tracers, such as chlorofluorocarbons and tritium, to determine groundwater flow patterns and rates; analytical methods for measurement of halogenated trace gases in water and air.
Frank J. Millero : Physical chemistry of natural waters; ionic interaction models; global CO2 cycle in the world oceans; laboratory and field studies on the effect of organic matter on the solubility of iron in natural water; measurements of inorganic CO2, nutrients and trace metals in natural waters.
Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm: Hydrology, surface and groundwater modeling, stochastic hydrology, applied mathematics; rainfall-triggered atural disaster prevention and mitigation.
Peter J. Minnett: Satellite remote sensing of the ocean, oceanographic applications of satellite measurements, ocean surface heat budget and how this influences near-surface temperature gradients.
Helena M. Solo-Gabrielle : Finding water and contaminant sources; metals and microbial contaminants; microbial indicators, such as E. coli, enterococci, and Clostridium perfringens.
Peter K. Swart : Stable Isotope Geochemistry Stable Isotope Laboratory; Carbonate Diagenesis; Sedimentology and Petrology Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory ; Cosmochemistry.
Zafer Top : Distributions of tritium, helium isotopes and noble gases in the ocean and in ground water; implications on variations in climatic conditions. Climate-ocean relationships; field scale studies in the North Pacific, Indian Ocean, Indonesian Seas and the Arctic Ocean.
John D. Wang : Coastal Oceanography; hydrodynamics and mass transport in estuaries and coastal areas. numerical model development and application to hydrodynamics, shallow water oceanography.
Tokuo "Tok" Yamamoto : Wave propagation through marine sediments; acoustic waves, gravity waves and seismic waves, detection and imaging of subsurface features using accoustic crosswell tomography.
Rod G. Zika : aqueous chemistry of hydrogen peroxide, superoxide radical and organic radicals; photochemically induced change in the speciation of biologically important metals in seawater; biological and photochemical production of volatile organic compounds.
