USC College Department of Biology

Coastal Water Quality

The majority of people live near an ocean coast and are impacted by the quality of coastal waters. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Los Angeles basin, where 17 million people depend on the Southern California Bight for a variety of goods and services, ranging from recreation to waste disposal, and thus face a variety of environmental quality issues and potential human health hazards. MEB researchers address issues in coastal water quality in an interdisciplinary fashion, using the methods of physical and biological oceanography, remote sensing, microbial ecology, molecular ecology, and environmental genomics.

Faculty

Dave Caron
Jed Fuhrman
Burt Jones
James Moffett
Sergio Sañudo-Wilhelmy




Coastal Water Quality The majority of people live near an ocean coast and are impacted by the quality of coastal waters. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Los Angeles basin, where 17 million people depend on the Southern California Bight for a variety of goods and services, ranging from recreation to waste disposal, and thus face a variety of environmental quality issues and potential human health hazards. MEB researchers address issues in coastal water quality in an interdisciplinary fashion, using the methods of physical and biological oceanography, remote sensing, microbial ecology, molecular ecology, and environmental genomics. Faculty Dave Caron Jed Fuhrman Burt Jones James Moffett Sergio Sañudo-Wilhelmy