Coral disease ecology; epidemiology; coral reef ecology; coral bleaching; conservation biology; coral responses to environmental stress; effects of land-based pollution on reefs; coral immunology.

Understanding how physical and biological processes structure marine communities in Hawai'i over spatial and temporal scales through analyses of field data collected on cryptic reef communities and the HIMARC database of coral reef community surveys.

Exploring the genomic diversity, distribution, and population genomics of the extremely abundant SAR11 bacterial lineage.

Carbonate chemistry, ocean acidification, and biomineralization; coral reef ecology and geochemistry; coral physiology and evolution.

Genetic and epigenetic regulation of coral bleaching and coral death; molecular mechanisms of coral acclimatization and adaptation.

Phylogeny of marine sponges using a reduced genome approach (ezRAD) to design primers that target sponges that settle on autonomous reef monitoring structures.