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Marine Science at The University of Chicago

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Despite its distance from the oceans, the University of Chicago houses a vibrant community of resident and affiliated faculty studying problems in the marine sciences. Research topics range from ocean biogeochemistry and climatology to biomechanics to systematics and evolutionary relationships to paleontology to marine ecology. Marine scientists at Chicago have research relationships with a number of marine resources, including the Shedd Aquarium and its collecting vessels in Florida, Friday Harbor Laboratories and Tatoosh Island in Washington, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Aside from Chicago-based courses in ecology, oceanography, climatology, palaeontology, functional morphology and invertebrate zoology, students can participate in regularly offered field courses in the Bahamas and in Costa Rica.

 

Relevant faculty, their departmental and committee affiliations with the University of Chicago, and their research interests include:

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David Archer (Geosciences): Ocean biogeochemistry, carbon cycle, global warming.

Rudiger Bieler (Field Museum, Committee on Evolutionary Biology): Molluscan systematics, evolution, anatomy, and life history.

Gidon Eshel (Geosciences): Climatology, ocean-atmosphere interactions.

Mike Foote (Geosciences, Committee on Evolutionary Biology): Paleontology, large-scale evolutionary patterns.

Lance Grande (Field Museum, Committee on Evolutionary Biology): Evolution and biogeography of fishes.

David Jablonski (Geosciences, Committee on Evolutionary Biology): Paleontology and paleoecology of marine organisms, large-scale evolutionary patterns.

Susan Kidwell (Geosciences, Committee on Evolutionary Biology): Marine sedimentology, stratigraphy, taphonomy, and paleoecology.

Mike LaBarbera (Organismal Biology & Anatomy, Geosciences, Committee on Evolutionary Biology): Biomechanics, invertebrate zoology.

Scott Lidgard (Field Museum, Committee on Evolutionary Biology): Bryzoan evolution, paleontology, biogeography and ecology.

Catherine Pfister (Ecology & Evolution, Committee on Evolutionary Biology): Marine ecology and conservation, phycology, fish ecology.

Janet Voight (Field Museum, Committee on Evolutionary Biology): Cephalopod systematics, evolution and ecology; deep-sea, and especially hydrothermal vent, biogeography.

Peter Wagner (Committee on Evolutionary Biology): Paleontology of marine invertebrates, constraints on morphology.

Mark Westneat (Field Museum, Organismal Biology & Anatomy, Committee on Evolutionary Biology): Biomechanics; evolution and systematics of Marine Fishes

Timothy Wootton (Ecology & Evolution, Committee on Evolutionary Biology): Marine ecology, ecology of invertebrates and seabirds.

Fred Ziegler (Geosciences): Oceanography, past and present ocean currents, global paleogeography, paleoclimatology, paleoproductivity.

 

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