Aimee Neeley, a biological oceanographer, is member of the Field Support Group within the Ocean Ecology Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her group is responsible for ground-truthing data products from ocean color satellites through the collection of biogeochemical samples and optical profiles during field campaigns. Her research focuses include understanding phytoplankton physiology and … Continued
Zrinka Ljubešić is a biological oceanographer with research interest in taxonomy and ecology of marine phytoplankton. Her group specializes in taxonomy of marine diatoms, picoeukaryotes and cyanobacteria. More recently her lab focused research on detection of specific phytoplankton groups/species that could serve as bio-tracers of specific water masses and on developing and optimizing methods of … Continued
Ivona Cetinić is a phytoplankton ecologist, who uses optical tools to shed light on the role that phytoplankton diversity plays in oceanic biogeochemical cycles. She likes submesoscale processes, ocean observing technology (in-situ and remote), pretty silicoflagellates and good olive oil. She got her PhD at University of Southern California, and after a postdoc and research … Continued
Ivona Cetinić is a phytoplankton ecologist, who uses optical tools to shed light on the role that phytoplankton diversity plays in oceanic biogeochemical cycles. She likes submesoscale processes, ocean observing technology (in-situ and remote), pretty silicoflagellates and good olive oil. She got her PhD at University of Southern California, and after a postdoc and research … Continued
Seaver Wang is a third-year PhD. student studying marine biogeochemistry in Dr. Nicolas Cassar’s research group at Duke University’s Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences. Seaver’s research interests focus on relating links between primary production in the oceans, the cycling of carbon and nutrients, and marine microbial community structure. Originally from Wilton, Connecticut, Seaver earned … Continued
Dr. Colleen Durkin is an oceanographer and research faculty member at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Moss Landing, California. She discovered her interest in ocean science while studying at the University of Washington, where she received her BS degrees in Biology and Oceanography. After a wide variety of research experiences, she became fascinated by … Continued
Meg Estapa is a biogeochemical oceanographer who uses sediment traps, satellite ocean color data, and in situ optical sensors to study the ocean’s biological carbon pump. Her interests include the controls on small-scale variations in the sinking flux of particulate carbon out of the surface layer of the ocean – an important, but hard-to-predict part … Continued
Wayne Slade is an oceanographer and engineer interested in understanding particles in the coastal and open oceans. These particles can range from small to large plankton, their detritus, sediments, and aggregates of all the above, “marine snow”—a key component of the “biological pump” responsible for moving carbon through the atmosphere into the ocean and ultimately … Continued
Hugo Berthelot studies the relationships between phytoplankton and biogeochemical cycles in the Ocean. During the cruise, he will measure the planktonic carbon and nitrogen uptake rates at the single cell level. For this purpose, he will use innovative tools such as flow-cytometry cell sorters and nanoscale imaging mass spectrometer. The expected results will help to … Continued
Noah Walcutt’s graduate work at the University of Rhode Island focuses on measuring carbon export from the surface ocean to the mesopelagic. During the cruise he will deploy various in situ imaging platforms for monitoring fluxes of particulate matter.
