Esther Mak is a postdoctoral researcher at the Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana. She earned her Ph.D. in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she focused on the microbial ecology of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms. At SUBSEA, she applies molecular biology tools to investigate how nitrogen fixers and other microbial groups contribute to subsurface nutrient cycling and particle transformations.

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