Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental and Ocean Sciences

Steven Searcy, PhD, teaches courses at all levels within the major including introductory life science classes, research methods and scientific writing, and upper division classes on the biology of fishes and human impacts to the marine environment. His areas of expertise include marine ecology, biology of fishes, early life history of fishes, habitat quality and marine pollution.

Searcy’s research focuses on the early life history of marine organisms. Research projects include evaluating nursery habitats in estuarine and coastal waters and examining spatial and temporal trends in microplastic ingestion and heavy metal contamination in filter feeding invertebrates.