Professor
My research employs a unique suite of field and laboratory techniques and approaches to assess the ecological consequences of climate change, including ocean acidification, deoxygenation and warming, and the role of animal energetics in ecosystem dynamics. I carry out broad comparative physiology studies to determine the limits to evolution and ecology. Physiological mechanism provides a foundation upon which ecosystem responses to climate change and consequences for biogeochemical cycles can be understood. My studies compare organisms across size, depth, latitudinal and phylogenetic lines, from microzooplankton to macronekton, ctenophores to fishes, from the poles to the equator and from the abyssal plains to the ocean surface. We strive to integrate across levels of organization, from mitochondria to ecosystems. I focus on the physiology of individual species and what this can teach us about their origin, behavior, ecology, diversity and the ecosystems in which they live.
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About Brad Seibel
My research employs a unique suite of field and laboratory techniques and approaches to assess the ecological consequences of climate change, including ocean acidification, deoxygenation and warming, and the role of animal energetics in ecosystem dynamics. I carry out broad comparative physiology studies to determine the limits to evolution and ecology. Physiological mechanism provides a foundation upon which ecosystem responses to climate change and consequences for biogeochemical cycles can be understood. My studies compare organisms across size, depth, latitudinal and phylogenetic lines, from microzooplankton to macronekton, ctenophores to fishes, from the poles to the equator and from the abyssal plains to the ocean surface. We strive to integrate across levels of organization, from mitochondria to ecosystems. I focus on the physiology of individual species and what this can teach us about their origin, behavior, ecology, diversity and the ecosystems in which they live.
| Present | Professor, University of South Florida ‐ College of Marine Science | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2020 - 2024 | Next generation sensor systems for natural oceanic bioluminescence assessments |
| Office of Naval Research | |
| $248,630 | |
| 2019 - 2021 | An ecophysiological framework to assess hypoxia driven habitat loss in the California Current Ecosystem |
| California Seagrant – Ocean Protection Council | |
| $123,068 | |
| 2018 - 2021 | Development of a Framework to Assess Biological Vulnerability to Ocean Hypoxia in the California Current System |
| National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | |
| $265,000 | |
| 2015 - 2018 | A metabolic index to predict the consequences of expanding oxygen minimum zones for midwater ecosystems |
| National Science Foundation, Biological Oceanography | |
| Role: PI | |
| $450,000 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2017 - 2020 | Chair, Deans Advisory Council, USF | 2017 - 2019 | Member, USF Graduate Council | 2016 - 2017 | Member, IMSE Student Exam Committee, USF | 2016 | Member, Deans Advisory Council, USF |
Courses
- Marine Ecology
- Biological Oceanography
- Pelagic Ecology
- Ecological Physiology
| 1998 | Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara | |
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| 1992 | B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara | |
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Contact Information
Phone: (727) 553-3403
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