Our research addresses the factors that determine the distribution and abundance of benthic organisms in temperate and tropical environments.

The focus areas include:

• Consequences of hydrodynamic processes on larval behavior, larval distribution, transport, dispersal, connectivity, settlement, and recruitment.
• Population ecology and population dynamics of benthic species.
• Consequences of physical heterogeneity, particularly hydrodynamic processes and small-scale temperature variability, on the distribution of benthic and large pelagic species
• Geographic and vertical ranges of benthic marine invertebrates, and bathymetric patterns of species diversity