Graduate Faculty
- Brian S. Arbogast: Professor: Conservation Biology
- J. Craig Bailey: Associate Professor: Biology of Photosynthetic Eukaryotes
- Christian Briseño-Avena: Assistant Professor
- Julia C. Buck: Assistant Professor: Disease Ecology
- Lawrence B. Cahoon: Professor: Biological Oceanography
- Joseph A. Covi: Associate Professor: Integrative and Comparative Biology
- Raymond M. Danner: Assistant Professor: Evolutionary Ecology
- Steven D. Emslie: Professor: Marine Ornithology, Paleoecology
- Patrick M. Erwin: Associate Professor: Microbial Ecology, Environmental Microbiology
- Arthur R. Frampton, Jr.: Associate Professor: Virology
- Nicole D. Fogarty: Assistant Professor: Coral Reef Ecology
- Kenneth M. Halanych : Executive Director of the Center for Marine Science & Professor : Genomics and Evolution of Invertebrates
- Jessie C. Jarvis: Associate Professor: Coastal/Marine Plant Biology
- Stephanie J. Kamel:Graduate Coordinator & Associate Professor: Marine Evolutionary Ecology
- Stephen T. Kinsey: Professor: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
- Heather N. Koopman: Department Chair & Professor: Marine Lipid Physiology
- Pierre Le Pabic: Assistant Professor: Evolutionary Development Biology
- Zachary T. Long: Assistant Professor: Coastal Plant Ecology
- Susanna Lopez-Legentil: Associate Professor: Marine Molecular Ecology
- Joseph R. Pawlik: Distinguished Professor: Marine Chemical Ecology
- Darin S. Penneys: Associate Professor: Plant Systematics
- Martin H. Posey: Professor: Estuarine Ecology
- Frederick S. Scharf: Professor: Fisheries Biology
- Lorian E. Schweikert: Assistant Professor
- Lori Sutter: Assistant Professor
- Alison R. Taylor: Professor: Cell Biology & Director of the RMD Microscopy facility
- Michael S. Tift: Assistant Professor: Comparative Anatomy
- Bradley Tolar: Assistant Professor: Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Ecology
- Blake Ushijima: Assistant Professor: Microbiology & Molecular Pathogenesis
- Jacob F. Warner: Assistant Professor: Marine Embryology
- Wm. David Webster: Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Research, and Infrastructure and Professor and Curator of Mammals: Mammalogy
- Ami E. Wilbur: Director, UNCW Shellfish Research Hatchery & Associate Professor: Shellfish Genetics and Mariculture
- Amanda Southwood Williard: Professor: Animal Physiology
- Kara E. Yopak: Associate Professor: Comparative Neuroscience
