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Areas of expertise: Ocean Studies, Oceanography



Areas of expertise: Climate Change, Earth Sciences, Geology, Hydrology, Marine Sciences, Ocean Studies, Oceanography, Water


Biography, Education and Training

B.A., Geological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara (1965) Ph.D., Oceanography, Oregon State University (1968)

Daniel P Costa

Daniel P Costa

Director Institute of Marine Science, Distinguished Professor

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department, Institute of Marine Sciences

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costa@ucsc.edu

8314592786


Areas of expertise: Behavioral Ecology, Coastal Science, Animal Behavior, Biology, Ecology, Marine Biology, Ocean Studies, Scientific Method, Natural History


Biography, Education and Training

  Daniel Costa completed a B.A. at UCLA and a Ph.D. at U.C. Santa Cruz followed by postdoctoral research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His research focuses on the ecology and physiology of marine mammals and seabirds, taking him to every continent and almost every habitat from the Galapagos to Antarctica. He has worked with a broad range of animals including turtles, penguins’ albatross, seals, sea lions, sirenians, whales and dolphins and has published over 400 scienti... more »

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Vilashini Cooppan

Professor of Literature

vcooppan@ucsc.edu


Areas of expertise: Africa and African Studies, Ocean Studies, Atlantic World, Colonialism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Critical Theory, Sense and Sensation, Psychoanalysis, Gender Studies, Sexuality


Biography, Education and Training

Vilashini Cooppan completed her BA at Yale University in 1988 and her Ph.D in Comparative Literature at Stanford University in 1996. She held a Stanford University African Studies fellowship at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, in 1995 and a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship in1996-97. She was Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University from 1997 to 2004.  Since then, she has taught at UCSC, where she teaches comparative and world ... more »

Rob Sean Wilson

Rob Sean Wilson

Professor of Literature, Creative Writing, and Cultural Studies

Literature Department, Creative Writing Program

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https://www.dukeupress.edu/reimagining-the-american-pacific

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674033436&content=bios


Areas of expertise: Poetry, Asian Studies, Ocean Studies


Biography, Education and Training

  Rob Sean Wilson is a Western Connecticut native who was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a doctorate in English and was founding editor of the Berkeley Poetry Review. He has taught in the English Department at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa; Korea University in Seoul as a Fulbright professor and was National Science Council visiting professor at National Tsing Hua University and National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. Since 2001, he became a ... more »

Susan Gillman

Susan Gillman

Distinguished Professor

Literature Department

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Susan Gillman


Areas of expertise: Literature, African American / Black Studies, American Studies, Race, US History, Slavery, Ocean Studies, Language and Linguistics, Popular Culture, Atlantic World


Biography, Education and Training

I am a scholar of race and slavery in the United States, the Americas, and beyond. From my usual base in the nineteenth century, I approach the study of national literatures and cultures from a “worlded” perspective developed by the cluster in World Literature and Cultural Studies at UCSC. My first book – focusing on Mark Twain’s lifelong interest in identity and imposture - explores his engagement with the changing systems of racial classification in the late nineteenth-... more »


Areas of expertise: Ocean Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Education Ph.D.    -  1997  Columbia University (Earth and Environmental Sciences) M. Phil -  1996  Columbia University (Geology) M. Sc.  -  1993  Columbia University (Geology) B. Sc.   -  1987  University of South Carolina (Marine Science) cum laude and with honors from South Carolina College   Post-doctoral research fellowships: 1998-2000       Center for Accelerator Mass Spectr... more »

Raphael M. Kudela

Raphael M. Kudela

Department Chair and Distinguished Professor, IMS Associate Director of Academic Initiatives

Ocean Sciences Department, Institute of Marine Sciences

Areas of expertise: Oceanography, Coastal Science, Marine Sciences, Ocean Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA B.S. (Magna Cum Laude) in Biology/Marine Sciences, Drake University, Des Moines, IA


Areas of expertise: Geochemistry, Climate Change, Ocean Studies, Earth Sciences


Biography, Education and Training

Professor, Ocean Sciences,  University of California, Santa Cruz Associate Professor, Ocean Sciences,  University of California, Santa Cruz Associate Research Professor, Biology and Paleo Environments, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University Assistant Research Professor, Biology and Paleo Environments, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of California, S... more »

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