Associate Professor of Oceanography
Coastal oceanography, ocean surface waves, computational fluid dynamics, remote sensing, air-sea interaction, ship hydrodynamics, biophysical interactions, coral biology, plankton ecology, and coral reef ecology.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Brett A. Fulkerson-Smith, Ph.D., specializes in the history of philosophy with an emphasis on German idealism.His primary research focuses on the philosophical methodologies of Immanuel Kant and J.G. Fichte — and the role of the imagination therein — and can be found in book chapters and scholarly journals like "Kantian Review," "Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain," "Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy," and "Society and Politics."
He also contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning, having presented on the transformation of physical learning environments in colleges and universities to facilitate deep learning among students, the use of argument maps in college classes, the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, and the Philosophy with Children (PwC) movement.
Before coming to the University of Guam, Dr. Fulkerson-Smith was Professor of Philosophy at Harper College, just outside of Chicago, where he served as a faculty member for more than 10 years.