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Principal investigator

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Heather Kim, PhD

  • Assistant Scientist II (tenure-track)  |  CV (PDF)
  • James E. & Barbara V. Moltz Early Career Science Fellow
  • ​2017, Ph.D., Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY
  • 2012, M.S., Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
  • 2010, B.S., Earth & Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Postdoctoral researchers

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Elizabeth Connors, PhD

  • Postdoctoral Investigator
  • ​2024, Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
  • Project: Integrating mechanistic models and deep learning based data assimilation to quantify biogeochemical-climate feedbacks in the West Antarctic Peninsula
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Shun Mao, PhD

  • Postdoctoral Investigator
  • 2023, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
  • Project: Quantifying mesopelagic carbon budgets in the subtropical North Atlantic: Active transport, particle attenuation, and DOC mixing via a data-assimilative framework 

Students

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Konstantin Scholey

  • Summer Student Fellow
  • School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, UK 
  • Project: Implementing air-sea gas exchange and carbonate chemistry modules into a biogeochemical model for the West Antarctic Peninsula 

Lab Alumni

Emelia Chamberlain, PhD

  • NSF OPP Postdoctoral Fellow (2024 – 2026)
  • Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Lehigh University
  • Project: Leveraging community structure data and machine learning techniques to improve microbial functional diversity in an Arctic Ocean ecosystem model

Yiming Guo, PhD

  • Postdoctoral Investigator (2024 – 2025)
  • Current position: Assistant Professor, Illinois State University
  • Project: Coupled physical-biogeochemical modeling using the Regional Ocean Modeling System for OAE strategies in the U.S. Northeast Shelf and Slope region (LOC-NESS Project)

Onur Karakuş, PhD

  • Postdoctoral Investigator (2023 – 2025)
  • Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  • Project: Coupled physical-biogeochemical modeling using the Regional Ocean Modeling System in the U.S. Northeast Shelf and Slope region

Jens Terhaar, PhD

  • Postdoctoral Scholar (2022 – 2023)
  • Current position: Senior Research Scientist, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Project: Arctic Ocean ecosystem projections using GFDL-ESM4 and observations

Ashley Dinauer, PhD

  • NSF OCE Postdoctoral Fellow (2021 – 2022)
  • Current position: Senior Data Scientist, CIBO Technologies
  • Project: Global-scale modeling of the POC transfer efficiency and shallow-water CaCO3 dissolution

Theodore Calianos

  • Research Assistant (2024 – 2026)
  • Current position: Desktop Support Technician, Cape Cod Healthcare
  • Project: Integrating observational data into models through data assimilation

Rhegan Thomason

  • NSF C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD Fellow (2022 – 2024)
  • Current position: Ph.D. student, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Project: Modeling and analysis of the flow of carbon through heterotrophic bacteria (C-CoMP Project) 

Annabella Amato

  • Summer Student Fellow (2022)
  • Current position: Ph.D. student, University of Washington
  • Project: Net community production in the subtropical North Atlantic: Modeling & observations

Oreoluwa Solanke

  • Summer Student Fellow (2020)
  • Current position: Research Assistant in Proteomics, Wistar Institute
  • Project: Quantifying the biogeochemical role of marine microbes in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda