2024 Annual Meeting Faculty Interest Talks

​During our 2024 Annual Meeting, COAST is hosted a series of CSU faculty interest​ talks on their general research interests, capabilities in their lab, and research areas they would like to develop. The talks were 3 minutes in length,​ followed by 2 minutes of questions. 



​​​MORNING SESSION​: 11:30 am - 12:15 pm​​

​Name     
​Campus
​Department​
​Talk Title
​1
Dr. Elizabeth Torres
​Los Angeles
Biological Sciences
​Racial equity in STEM: ocean sciences and the CSU
​2
Dr. Amira Ainis
​Los Angeles
Anthropology
​Creating deep-time historical baselines with archaeological shell and otoliths
​3
Dr. Petr Vozka
Los Angeles
​Chemistry
​Do you know what is in your samples? GCxGC does!
4
Dr. Ron Coleman
​Sacramento
Biological Sciences
​Fish life history
5
Dr. Michael Carlson
​Long Beach
​Biological Sciences
​Quantifying and predicting microbial mortality in the oceans
6
Dr. Darcy Taniguchi
​San Marcos​
​Biological Sciences​
​Examining the invisible forest of unicellular marine plankton
​7​
Dr. Lydia Baker
Monterey Bay
Marine Science
​Underwater alliances: the perks and perils of marine symbiosis

​8
Dr. Sarah Cohen
​San Francisco
​Biology / Estuary and Ocean Science Center
​Population and species divergence across varied stressor gradients
​​​
​​AFTERNOON SESSION: 1:15 - 2:00 pm​
9
Dr. Rachael Wade
Humboldt
Biological Sciences
​Coralline algae: models for biogeography and evolution on the marine benthos
10
Dr. Philip Heller
​San José
Computer Science
​Coral vision: machine learning for coral resilience and more
​1​1
Dr. Benjamin Perlman
​Long Beach
Biological Sciences
​Welcome to the STABB Lab (Singray And Butterfly Biomechanics)
​12
Dr. Joshua Kelly
​Los Angeles
​Geography, Geology, and Environment
​Kelly remote sensing and geomorphology bab
​13
Dr. Sherry Palacios
Monterey Bay
Marine Science
​The big picture: how remote sensing can help us see trends in the California Current System
​14​
Dr. Manny Gabet
​San José
​Geology
​Advanced techniques for mapping coastlines
15
Dr. Joseph Lucey
Los Angeles
​Civil Engineering
​Quantifying uncertainties and assessing coastal compound hazards
​16​
Dr. Ignacio Sepulveda
​San Diego
​Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
​Understanding geohazards in coastal environments: the goal of the SDSU Coastal Engineering Lab