Rosenstiel School faculty studying "plankton"

• Sharon L. Smith

  biological oceanography; zooplankton ecology

• Peter Ortner

  biological and fisheries oceanography

• Larry E. Brand

  physiology, ecology and evolution of phytoplankton

• Gary Hitchcock

  phytoplankton ecology; biological oceanography

• Jorge F. Willemsen

  Deterministic modeling of ocean surface gravity waves, including wind driving and dissipation; physical mechanisms for the transport of nutrients to plankton, including the interactions between zooplankton and phytoplankton.