Dr. Sarah Milton

Dr. Sarah L. Milton is Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences. Dr. Milton is the Director of the Graduate Program in Integrative Biology at FAU and is co-director of the Master’s Program in Marine Science and Oceanography. She graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University with a B.A. in Biology (1988) and earned her doctoral degree in Biological Oceanography at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences in 1994. Dr. Milton initially worked at FAU as a Research Assistant Professor prior to her appointment as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2006. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011 and to Full Professor in 2019. Her research interests lie in environmental physiology, investigating the effects of environmental stressors on animal physiology, and adaptive mechanisms of survival. This includes two main branches: (1) survival of the brain in the absence of oxygen and (2) sea turtle physiology and conservation. She has nearly 50 peer-reviewed publications covering a broad range of topics in these areas.