Marine Biology & Ecology Department

The Marine Biology & Ecology Department teaches marine ecology through population- and ecosystem-level modeling that simulates plankton community dynamics and biodiversity. Students train to interpret the resulting ecological processes and evolutionary patterns of marine organisms and ecosystems; by graduation, they have internalized the eye for quantitatively analyzing and forecasting change in marine ecosystems.

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⭐ Haeckel

Chair

💡 marine_biology

Researchers (real GeoVerse Lab members) 14

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1835–1924

Victor Hensen

Researcher

💡 Coined the term 'plankton' and founded quantitative plankton research through net-sampling methods

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1830–1882

Charles Wyville Thomson

Researcher

💡 Led the scientific staff of the HMS Challenger expedition, founding modern deep-sea biology by proving life exists at all ocean depths

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1851–1931

David Starr Jordan

Researcher

💡 Leading American ichthyologist who described more fish species than any other scientist, systematizing fish taxonomy

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1892–1969

Remington Kellogg

Researcher

💡 Leading authority on cetacean evolution and biology, and architect of early international whaling regulation

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1872–1946

John Stanley Gardiner

Researcher

💡 Pioneered scientific study of coral reef biology and ecology through expeditions to the Maldives, Laccadives, and Indian Ocean atolls

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1835–1910

Alexander Agassiz

Researcher

💡 Leading marine invertebrate zoologist, advancing echinoderm biology and coral reef research through numerous oceanographic expeditions

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1899–1986

Maurice Yonge

Researcher

💡 Founded functional and physiological approaches to benthic marine ecology, particularly the biology of bivalve mollusks and intertidal organisms

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1869–1948

Johan Hjort

Researcher

💡 Founder of modern fisheries science, developing the critical period theory of larval fish survival explaining year-class fluctuations

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1877–1962

William Beebe

Researcher

💡 Set the first deep-sea depth records in the bathysphere, directly observing deep ocean biodiversity for the first time

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1897–1948

Ed Ricketts

Researcher

💡 Pioneered ecological (rather than purely taxonomic) study of intertidal marine communities on the Pacific coast

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1811–1866

William Henry Harvey

Researcher

💡 Father of phycology (algology); systematized the classification of marine algae into major taxonomic groups still used today

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1871–1952

William Thomas Calman

Researcher

💡 Leading carcinologist who systematized crustacean classification and authored the standard reference on crustacean biology

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1896–1985

Alister Hardy

Researcher

💡 Invented the Continuous Plankton Recorder and conducted foundational Antarctic whale/krill ecology research

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1845–1927

William Healey Dall

Researcher

💡 Leading American malacologist who described thousands of mollusk species and advanced deep-sea and Alaskan marine biology