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Seven research labs operate within the Department of Applied Environmental Science at Â鶹´å. Undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students work with their Principal Investigators (P.I.s) in research labs as interns, researchers, and research assistants, contributing to cutting-edge research and gaining valuable experience in their field of interest.

• • PI: Dr. Victoria Derr
  • Research Areas: Education, participation, and planning for just sustainability
• The Fernandez Lab
  • PI: Dr. Daniel Fernandez
  • Research Areas: Statewide fog water collection and spatial, temporal, and chemical analysis of it
• The Â鶹´å NASA AMES Research Group
  • Director: Dr. Susan Alexander
  • Research Areas: Ecological and watershed systems with an emphasis on local, regional, and global environmental problems and issues resulting from changing climatic and land-use patterns
• • PI: Dr. Jennifer Duggan
  • Research Areas: Conservation biology, landscape ecology, animal behavior
• The Watershed Environments & Ecology (WEE) Lab 
  • PI: Dr. John Olson
  • Research Areas: Aquatic ecology, remote sensing, watershed sciences
• • PI: Dr. James "Jimmy" Guilinger
  • Research Areas: Watershed hydrology, process geomorphology, sediment dynamics, terrestrial remote sensing, and geospatial analysis
• • PI: Dr. Fred Watson
  • Research Areas: Conservation, plant ecology, wildlife ecology, land use, recreation planning, remote sensing, statistics, hydrology

Education and Outreach Partnerships

• Sustainable City Year Program 
  • Director: Dr. Dan Fernandez
• • Director: Dr. Laura Lee Lienk

Eight research labs operate within the Department of Biology, Agriculture, and Chemistry. Undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students work with their Principal Investigators (PIs) in research labs as interns, researchers, and research assistants, contributing to cutting-edge research and gaining valuable experience in their fields of interest.

• The Albuquerque Lab
  • PI: Dr. Caetano Albuquerque
  • Research Areas: Plant physiology, crop physiology, water and nutrient use efficiency, applied agronomy
• • PI: Dr. Liz Alter
  • Research Areas: Molecular ecology and population genomics of aquatic organisms, environmental DNA (eDNA), phylogenetics
• The Crop Nutrition and Soil Fertility Management Lab
  • PI: Dr. Arun Jani
  • Research Areas: Crop productivity, reducing nutrient, water, carbon, and energy footprints in specialty crop production, soil fertility
• The Genomics and Bioinformatics Lab
  • PI: Dr. Nathaniel Jue
  • Research Areas: Evolutionary and functional genomics, genetics 
• The Haffa Lab
  • PI: Dr. Arlene Haffa
  • Research Area: Agricultural biogeochemistry
• • PI: Dr. Jose Pablo Dundore-Arias
  • Research Areas: Ecology and management of plant-associated microbes, biocontrol of plant pathogens, agricultural microbes
• • PI: Dr. Arun Sharma
  • Research Areas: Computing and machine learning
• • PI: Dr. Aparna Sreenivasan
  • Research Areas: Cell cycle, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, science communication

Five research labs operate within the Department of Marine Science at Â鶹´å. Undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students work with their Principal Investigators (PIs) in research labs as interns, researchers, and research assistants, contributing to cutting-edge research and gaining valuable experience in their fields of interest.

• • PI: Dr. Alison Haupt
  • Research Areas: Population genetics, land-sea connections, kelp forest and coastal ecology, anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems
• • PI: Dr. Cheryl Logan
  • Research Areas: Marine ecological physiology & genomics, global change biology, ecological forecasting, ocean climate change policy 
• The Fish Ecology & Video Analysis Lab
  • PI: Dr. James Lindholm
  • Research Areas: Shelf & slope ecology, image-based approaches to data collection, application of science to policy & management
• • PI: Dr. Salvador Jorgensen
  • Research Areas: Movement, population dynamics, and ecological interactions of ocean predators, how predator density changes (e.g., declines and recoveries), along with emerging climate-driven range shifts are changing species communities and their interactions
• • PI: Dr. Lydia Baker
  • Research Areas: Marine and symbiont ecology, microbial genomics, host–microbe interactions and resilience of marine organisms, fish and coral reef microbial dynamics, marine science education/outreach

Education & Outreach Programs

• Coastal and Marine Education and Outreach 
  • Faculty: Pat Iampietro, Dr. Cheryl Logan, Dr. Lydia Baker
• Research Diving Program
  • Director: Dr. James Lindholm 
• Rote Program 
  • Director: Dr. James Lindholm