Liz Baker-Treloar has been a member of the Marine Science Environmental Studies Department since Fall of 1995.  Baker-Treloar has taught undergraduate courses and labs in physical oceanography, natural disasters, and earth science.  In addition to teaching undergraduate courses, Baker-Treloar is the department field trip co-ordinator.  As the field trip co-ordinator Baker-Treloar is logistacal support to faculty and students for day field trips as well as overnight camping events and the department 24 hour Sproul cruise.

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Eric M. Cathcart has been a member of the faculty since 1996 and has taught undergraduate courses in natural disasters, environmental geology, and other disciplines.  Cathcart is a licensed California Professional Geologist, California Registered Environmental Assessor, and works as an environmental consultant.  His work focuses on construction and remediation quality assurance, Phase I and Phase II site assessments, underground storage tank removals, and soil and groundwater investigations and remediation.

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John Ryan has been a member of the faculty since 2008.  He is an Associate Professor of Geography and Geographical Information Science. In addition to his teaching, he has extensive experience in the private and public sector. His work in the public sector includes mapping airborne photography and developing GIS for the Red Cross during the 2005 Hurricane Katrina relief effort. He has also worked on GIS projects supporting the National Office for Drug Prevention, ONDCP. His research focuses on developing virtual mapping through the Internet and he has worked in association with Google Earth on other humanitarian relief projects.

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Steven Searcy, PhD, focuses his research on the early life history of marine organisms with a focus on the transition between larval and juvenile stages of marine fish and invertebrates.

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Dr. Snelgrove is a professor of biological oceanography in Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Ocean Science Center and Biology Department, Canada. His interests include marine community ecology, larval ecology of invertebrates and fish, ecology of benthic invertebrates, hydrodynamic effects on benthic communities and populations, deep-sea ecology, biodiversity, and marine conservation. He chaired the Synthesis Group of the Census of Marine Life that oversaw the final phase of the program. He is the director of the NSERC Canadian Healthy Ocean Network and Canada Research Chair in Boreal and Cold Ocean Systems. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 refereed publications. His book, The Census of Marine Life: Making Ocean Life Count (Cambridge University Press, 2010), is featured in the course he will teach at USD in spring 2011 (MARS 494 Marine Biodiversity).

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