David Hutchins

  • Professor of Biological Sciences
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 740-5616

Expertise Summary

Expert in marine ecology, phytoplankton and the effects of climate change on the ocean

Expertise

  • climate change and the ocean
  • effects of carbon dioxide and temperature increases on ocean
  • phytoplankton and food web structure
  • marine role in carbon and nutrient cycles
  • role of iron in marine food chain
  • harmful/toxic algal blooms
  • geobiology, marine ecology, biogeochemistry
  • organisms that benefit from "greenhouse ocean"