People
Principal Investigator

Dr. Heather H. Kim
Assistant Scientist (tenure-track), Dept. of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
- 2017, Ph.D., Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY
- 2012, M.S., Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI
- 2010, B.S., Earth & Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Jens Terhaar
WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
- 2019, Ph.D., Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (France) / Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
- Project: Arctic Ocean ecosystem projections over the 21st century using GFDL-ESM4 and observations

Dr. Onur Karakuş
WHOI Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Investigator, Dept. of Physical Oceanography
- 2022, Ph.D., University of Bremen & Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
- Project: Coupled physical-biogeochemical (ROMS) modeling for the Northwest Atlantic Margin
Students

Rhegan Thomason
NSF C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD Fellow, Dept. of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
- 2021, B.S., Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
- Project: Modeling and analysis of the flow of carbon through heterotrophic bacteria

Theodore Calianos
Undergraduate Volunteer, Dept. of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
- Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
- Project: Data assimilation and modeling of the Arctic and Antarctic ecosystems
Lab Alumni
Annabella Amato
Summer Student Fellow (June - August 2022)
- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Project: Net community production in the subtropical North Atlantic: Modeling & observations
Dr. Ashley Dinauer
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow (December 2021 - June 2022)
- 2021, Ph.D., Climate Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Project: Global-scale modeling of the POC transfer efficiency and shallow-water CaCO3 dissolution
Emelia Chamberlain
Guest Ph.D. Student (January - March 2022)
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Project: Quantifying microbial controls on carbon flows through the changing Arctic Ocean
Elizabeth Connors
Guest Ph.D. Student (January - March 2022)
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Project: Incorporating observations of top-down control of bacterial carbon into the model for the Western Antarctic Peninsula
Oreoluwa Solanke
Summer Student Fellow (June - August 2020)
- 2021, B.A., Earth Science, Columbia University, New York, NY
Project: Quantifying the biogeochemical role of marine microbes in the Sargasso Sea, Bermuda