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

NSF Office of Polar Programs Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry

2023, Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
Project: Arctic Ocean biogeochemical and AI/ML modeling to improve bacterial diversity and ecological predictions through genomic measurements

WHOI Postdoctoral Investigator, Dept. of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry

2022, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Project: Coupled physical-biogeochemical modeling of the US Northeast Shelf and Slope region for Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE)

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

NSF Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet 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

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

WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar (2022 - 2023)

Ph.D., Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (France) / Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
Current position: Senior Research Scientist at the University of Bern, Switzerland

Project: Arctic Ocean ecosystem projections over the 21st century using GFDL-ESM4 and observations

Summer Student Fellow (June - August 2022)

B.S., Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Current position: Bridge-to-PhD Fellow at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Project: Net community production in the subtropical North Atlantic: Modeling & observations

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow (December 2021 - June 2022)

Project: Global-scale modeling of the POC transfer efficiency and shallow-water CaCO3 dissolution

Guest Ph.D. Student (January - March 2022)

Project: Incorporating observations of top-down control of bacterial carbon into the model for the Western Antarctic Peninsula

Summer Student Fellow (June - August 2020)

Project: Quantifying the biogeochemical role of marine microbes in the Sargasso Sea, Bermuda