His research, teaching and public service is motivated by contemporary environmental issues and centered on the role of transport in ocean, bay, nearshore and estuarine waters. His work has addressed transport of plankton, larvae, contaminants, pathogens, heat, salt, nutrients, dissolved oxygen, and sediment – and he places this work in the context of issues as diverse as marine reserves, fisheries, mariculture, beach pollution, wastewater discharge, wildlife health, desalination, river plumes, coastal power plants, kelp forests, wetlands, marine mining, coastal zone management and impacts of coastal development. At UCD he heads the Coastal Oceanography Group.

Candice has dedicated her education and research to furthering our understanding of marine biology and ocean sciences. She is largely interested in aiding climate change mitigation through long-term data collection, visualization, analyses, and reporting. Her work with the Coastal Oceanography Group currently focuses on implementing such interests in the nearshore ocean, bay, and estuarine regions of coastal California. When she's not in the lab or busy with field work, she can be found surfing somewhere nearby.

Marcel is one of two technicians that keep BML’s HF Radar stations operating and producing measurements of sea surface currents and waves for the northern part of the CeNCOOS regional network. Marcel also doubles up as BML’s programmer and database manager, facilitating the acquisition, processing and display of environmental measurements from BML’s various realtime data acquisition platforms.

Robin is interested in long-term monitoring of oceanographic processes as a core discipline in marine science. Her work is mainly focused on supporting the Coastal Oceanography Group projects in the estuaries and coastal regions of California, implementing robust data collection techniques to understand changes and resiliency over time.