Faculty
Tom Connolly
thomas.p.connolly@sjsu.edu
Staff
Steve Cunningham
Research Technician
Graduate students
Marisol Figueroa
Internal waves at the head of Monterey Canyon
Jason Gonsalves
Equatorial dynamics and marine heat waves
Logan Grady
Kelp forest hydrodynamics
Basil Darby
Coastal submesoscale dynamics
Olivia Pawlyk
Harmful algal blooms and nutrients
Co-advised by Holly Bowers (MLML Environmental Biotechnology Lab)
Stephen Huie
Dissolved oxygen and hypoxia in an upwelling bay
Jo Trillo
Turbulence in an upwelling bay
Alex Akin
Alumni
Former students and M.S. theses
Recent graduates
Kieran Claassen
Phytoplankton eDNA and the northern Monterey Bay upwelling shadow front
In collaboration with Monique Messié (MBARI)
Ryan Chiu
Tidal dynamics and biogeochemical responses in Moro Cojo Slough
In collaboration with the MLML Central Coast Wetlands Group
Amanda Camarato
Arctic ice-ocean interactions
co-advised by Tim Stanton (Naval Postgraduate School Ocean Turbulence Lab, MLML affiliate)
Jacquie Chisholm
Nutrients and groundwater in Moro Cojo Slough
co-advised by Kim Null (MLML Central Coast Wetlands Group)