Office Location:
Whittier Science 129 (inside WS 126)
Office Available:
SPRING 2026
Wed 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Fri 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
or by appointment
Professor Horvath graduated from Westmont and earned a master’s degree in biology
with an emphasis in marine sciences at CSU Long Beach. She joined the Westmont faculty
in 1978 part time and became full time in 1990. As a field biologist, she gives students
field experiences along the coast. She works as a research associate in the Invertebrate
Labs at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; she served as an intern there
as a Westmont student. She studies gorgonian corals and has described new species
off the coasts of California, Washington and the Aleutian Islands. She consults with
15 governmental and non-governmental agencies in identifying these corals.