All Academics

• HAMDOUN, AMRO - Assistant Professor
• HARDING, ALISTAIR - Researcher
•  Rifting of continental lithosphere
•  Ridge Crest Processes
•  Oceanic Crustal structure
•  Three-D tomographic study of the Clipperton Transform
•  Modeling and evolution of Moho at oceanic ridges
•  Reflection seismic processing
• HARRIS, JAMES - Director Emeritus
• HASTINGS, PHILIP - Professor
•  Systematics & evolution of fishes
•  Biogeography
•  Evolution of behavior
•  Marine conservation
•  Behavioral ecology of fishes
• HAUBRICHT, RICHARD - Professor Emeritus
• HAWKINS, JAMES - Professor Emeritus
•  Evolution of convergent plate margins of western Pacific, and origin of back-arc basins such as Parece Vela Basin, Lau Basin, and Mariana Trough
•  Origin and emplacement of ophiolites on convergent plate margins
•  Crustal evolution, western Pacific Basin, and western North America
• HAXO, FRANCIS - Professor Emeritus
• HAYGOOD, MARGO - Professor Emeritus
• HAYMET, ANTHONY - Professor
•  Research: Antarctic fish antifreeze proteins and nucleation
•  Administrative: strategic research planning, partnerships, and safety issues, especially in field and laboratory work
• HEDLIN, MICHAEL - Researcher
•  Analysis of acoustic signals from large-scale atmospheric phenomena
•  Reduction of noise due to atmospheric turbulence
•  Use of seismic and acoustic energy for nuclear test ban verification
•  Structure of Earth's crust and mantle
• HELLY, JOHN - Research Associate
• HEMMINGSEN, EDVARD - Researcher
•  Bubble nucleation in gas supersaturated liquids
•  Gas bubble disease in animals
•  Respiratory and cardiovascular functions in fishes
• HENDERSHOTT, MYRL - Professor
•  Solution of Laplace's tidal equations for deep-sea tides including solid Earth loading
•  Mean circulation of the Adriatic Sea
•  Continental-shelf circulation
•  Two-dimensional and quasi-geostrophic turbulence
•  Internal waves and fine structure
•  Tides and ocean normal modes
•  Large-scale ocean circulation
• HERGUERA, JUAN - Research Associate
•  High resolution geological repositories of the variability of coastal circulation along the western shores of the Americas
•  High resolution studies of Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate
•  Interaction and evolution of eastern boundary currents with global climate
•  Sensitivity of calcitic and opaline phyto and zooplancton to ocean circulation changes
• HERMAN, ALEXANDER - Research Associate
• HESSLER, ROBERT - Professor Emeritus
• HILDEBRAND, JOHN - Professor
•  Marine mammal population census using acoustics
•  Impact of anthropogenic sound on marine mammals
•  Field studies in: southern California, Gulf of California, Hawaii, offshore Washington, Bering Sea, Arctic, Southern Ocean
• HILDEBRAND, MARK - Researcher
•  Diatom silicon metabolism and silica cell wall synthesis
•  Diatom nanotechnology
•  High resolution imaging
•  Diatom genomics/transcriptomics and transgenics
•  Microalgal lipid metabolism for biofuels production
•  Algal biofuels
• HILLGARTH, NIGELLA - Academic Coordinator
•  Evolutionary Biology
•  Behavioral Ecology
•  Science communication
•  Informal education
• HILTON, DAVID - Professor
•  Noble gas geochemistry of mantle-derived rocks and fluids
•  Volatile mass balance of subduction zones
•  Stable isotope-noble gas isotope and relative abundance relationships in oceanic basalts
•  Hydrogeological applications of noble gases
• HODGKISS, WILLIAM - Professor
•  Adaptive digital signal processing and time series analysis with applications to adaptive array processing
•  Time-evolving spatial distribution and statistical characterization of ambient ocean noise
•  Propagation of acoustic energy through the water column and its interaction with the surface and bottom
•  Matched-field processing and full-field inversions for water column and seafloor geoacoustic parameters
•  Acoustic communications
•  Tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation and environmental parameter inversions
•  Wireless sensor networks
•  Software defined radio
• HOLLAND, LINDA - Researcher
•  Chordate evolutionary relationships
•  Developmental genetics of amphioxus
•  Evolution and development
• HOLLAND, NICHOLAS - Professor
•  Developmental evolution (using comparative molecular genetics to establish body part homologies between distantly related animals), with attention to the origin of the vertebrates from the invertebrates
• HOLM-HANSEN, OSMUND - Researcher
•  Biological and biochemical studies in polar sea
•  Phytoplankton photoadaptation
•   Effects of solar ultraviolet radiation on phytoplankton
•  Macro- and micro-element nutrition
• HOTEIT, IBRAHIM - Visiting Assistant Researcher
• HUGHES, CHAMBERS - Post-Doctoral Scholar