Tetrapods
| Faculty | Research | Potential Primary Advisor* |
|---|---|---|
| Michael D. Arendt | Environmental influences on animal occurrence, population dynamics and demographic structure, collection of large data sets through remote and/or innovative technologies, time series analysis | NO |
| Russell D. Day | Biomonitoring of marine ecosystems and organismal health, environmental chemistry, coral stressors, health, and geochemistry, isotopes, heavy metals, trace elements in the marine environment, ocean acidification, sea turtle ecotoxicology | NO |
| Leslie B. Hart |
Environmental health: human and wildlife indicators of exposure to environmental contaminants and stressors |
NO |
| Willem J. Hillenius | Comparative anatomy of tetrapods, particularly mammals, reptiles and dinosaurs | NO |
| Melissa Hughes | Animal behavior; in particular, communication in song birds and crustaceans | YES |
| Michael G. Janech | Physiology of marine organisms, molecular and proteomic applications | YES |
| John R. Kucklick | Analytical chemistry, aquatic ecotoxicology | NO |
| Eric J. McElroy | Evolution and ecology of animal performance and functional morphology; functional, physiological and morphological basis of animal behavior | YES |
| Wayne E. McFee | Marine mammal strandings, marine mammal life history, dolphin/human interactions | NO |
| Paul M. Nolan | Behavioral ecology, disease ecology, ornithology, avian habitat selection | NO |
| David Wm. Owens (Emeritus) | Sea turtle behavior, physiology and ecology | NO |
| Tracey B. Schock | Environmental Metabolomics - assessing health by identifying the physiological changes in marine organisms in response to environmental stressors/change, such as pollutants, disease, or temperature rise | NO |
| Andrew M. Shedlock | Genomics, evolution and conservation biology of marine vertebrates | YES |
| Jeffrey D. Triblehorn | Sensory neurobiology and the neural control of behavior primarily involving invertebrate systems and includes studies using neurophysiological, neuroanatomical, and behavioral techniques | NO |
| Allison M. Welch | Ecology, evolution and behavior of amphibians | NO |
| Lenny Yong | population genetics and distribution of marine organisms, genomics of sex differences in natuaral populations, phenotypic evolution and adaptation of fishes, molecular and conservation genetics, genotype-phenotype mapping/GWAS | YES |
*NO=cannot serve as major advisor, but can serve on thesis committee