Investigates role of ocean biology in gobal carbon and nutrient cycles.

Thermal physiology, open ocean predators, ecological physiology and tuna biology
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Professor Davis’ research and teaching is focused at the interface of engineered water supply and sanitation systems and their users in developing countries.

Ocean processes, biogeochemistry, climatology/paleoclimatology, isotopic chemistry, ocean policy

I study indigenous resource management, human health, and conservation issues in the tropics. My current research focuses on environmental causes of emerging infectious diseases in tropical areas, conservation tradeoffs in the Galapagos Islands, and ecotourism as a means to poverty alleviation and self-determination among indigenous and local peoples.

Microbial cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and metals in the environment; molecular geomicrobiology; marine microbiology; microbial diversity

My research interests include wealth and inequality, Brazilian social history, Latin American economic history, and spatial history.

Ecological and evolutionary community assembly, with emphasis on understanding historical contingency in community structure, ecosystem functioning, biological invasion and ecological restoration, using experimental, theoretical, and comparative methods involving bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals.

Professor Deborah M Gordon studies the evolutionary ecology of collective behavior. Ant colonies operate without central control, using local interactions to regulate colony behavior.

Reflecting his interdisciplinary training in American Studies, which combined the fields of history, literature, and economics, Professor Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic and cultural analysis with social and political history.

I am interested in the recovery of unconventional hydrocarbon resources and mitigating carbon emissions from fossil fuels via geological sequestration of greenhouse gases. My research group and I examine the physics of flow through porous media at length scales that vary from the pore to the laboratory to the reservoir.

My research is in the area of human-environment interactions in land systems. I develop integrated approaches to study land use change by linking remote sensing, GIS and socio-economic data. I aim at better understanding causes and impacts of changes in tropical forests, drylands, and farming systems.

Tim originally began Stanford as a Human Biology major with a focus on sports medicine. After sophomore year, however, he was able to participate in a Bing Overseas Seminar studying coral reef biogeochemistry in the Republic of Palau. Since then, Tim has pivoted towards a focus on oceanography and biogeochemistry. The summer after, he was fortunate enough to participate in kelp forest research in Monterey Bay under the tutelage of Stanford PHD candidate Dave Koweek. Tim's interests are diverse and lay in human health, marine ecosystems, and the future of energy in the United States. As a Head TA, he hopes to become more involved in the culture of Earth Systems and bring a diverse academic background to his sections and interactions with students as well as convey the plethora of research opportunities available to undergraduates. Interests outside of academia include running, hiking, golfing, and spending time with his family. 

Her research addresses a range of environment and sustainability issues, including sustainability of agricultural systems; vulnerability of particular people and places to climate change; and global change in the nitrogen and carbon cycles. With multi-disciplinary teams of researchers, managers, and decision makers, she has worked to develop agricultural approaches that reduce environmental impacts while improving livelihoods and human wellbeing. 
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Sarah McCurdy spent her childhood on Long Island with a head full of dreams about food and her future. That future would include time as a scholar-athlete at Stanford University where she ran competitively while also pursuing a degree in Earth Systems. Searching for studies that provided a holistic approach to science and culture, her interests were sparked in a course on soil quality, which led to a research position in the Soil and Biogeochemistry lab, and concluded with a trip to collect soil and rice samples in Cambodia. Learning about soil, coupled with the on-the-ground experience in Cambodia convinced Sarah to pursue a career in telling the story of science through the power of food. After completing her undergraduate degree, Sarah explored the world of food beyond the classroom by becoming a server at the nationally acclaimed restaurant Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, New York. While there, Sarah watched her passion for food science, business, and culture grow. This passion led her back to Stanford where she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in food system science. She is working on a vermiculture project at the new Stanford Farm and an individual research project on food security within the US. When she’s not in class or geeking out about compost, Sarah can often be found discussing her newest butternut squash recipe over a glass of wine with her friends. With all of the ingredients in place, Sarah’s dreams of a food career seasoned with just the right amount of science are quickly becoming her reality.

Harold Mooney has demonstrated that convergent evolution takes place in the properties of different ecosystems that are subject to comparable climates, and has pioneered in the study of the allocation of resources in plants.
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My research focuses on the environmental and equity dimensions of intensive food production systems, and the food security dimensions of low-input systems.

We're interested in ecological, evolutionary, and conservation questions related to marine (and sometimes terrestrial) organisms and ecosystems. We use evolutionary genetics and molecular ecology techniques, and our fieldwork takes us all around the world. Currently, we're studying coral diversity, the adaptive potential of corals in response to climate change, the movement of organisms between marine reserves, genetic changes in abalone in response to environmental.

Our lab studies the ecological processes that structure natural communities and the links between community structure and the cycling of nutrients and energy through ecosystems. We focus primarily on fungi, as these organisms are incredibly diverse and are the primary agents of carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. By working across multiple scales we hope to build a 'roots-to-biomes' understanding of plant-microbe symbiosis.

My research examines the relationships between coastal resources and coastal societies in the context of resource management in a changing environment. I combine natural science, social science, and citizen science in order to advance the theory and practice of coastal management through engagement with coastal resource user communities.

Structure-function analysis of bacterial adhesion proteins and toxins; design and synthesis of synthetic antigens; immunobiology of human papillomaviruses

Physical oceanography; theory and numerical modeling of the ocean circulation; dynamics of ocean fronts and vortices; upper ocean processes; air-sea interaction.

Our current focus is on maize anther development to understand how cell fate is specified. We discovered that hypoxia triggers specification of the archesporial (pre-meiotic) cells, and that these cells secrete a small protein MAC1 that patterns the adjacent soma to differentiate as endothecial and secondary parietal cell types. We also discovered a novel class of small RNA: 21-nt and 24-nt phasiRNAs that are exceptionally abundant in anthers and exhibit strict spatiotemporal dynamics.

Biosynthesis of lipid biomarkers in modern microbes; molecular geomicrobiology; microbial physiology