Professor of Biological Oceanography
Curator of Pelagic Invertebrates

Research Interests:

• Population ecology of marine zooplankton, especially planktonic copepods
• Mortality estimation and other demographic techniques
• Climate change effects on California Current pelagic food webs
• California Current Ecosystem LTER site
• Autonomous measurement methods (Spray ocean gliders, moorings)

Degrees:

• Ph.D., University of Washington
• M.A., California State University, San Francisco
• B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz

http://ccelter.sio.ucsd.edu/

http://oceaninformatics.ucsd.edu/zooplankton/ 

http://collections.ucsd.edu/pi/