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Principal Investigator

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Dr. Heather Kim

Associate Scientist (tenure-track), Dept. of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry

James E. and 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, Narragansett, RI
  • 2010, B.S., Earth & Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Postdoctoral Researchers

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Dr. Emelia Chamberlain

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

  • ​2023, Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
  • Project: Data-assimilative hybrid modeling of bacterial and ecosystem dynamics using mechanistic and AI/ML approaches in the Arctic Ocean
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Dr. Elizabeth Connors

Postdoctoral Investigator, Dept. of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry

  • ​2024, Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
  • Project: Data-assimilative hybrid modeling of the biological pump, microbial processes, and climate feedback in the West Antarctic Peninsula ecosystem using mechanistic and AI/ML approaches
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Dr. Yiming Guo

Postdoctoral Investigator, Dept. of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry

  • ​2022, Ph.D., North Carolina 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
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Dr. Shun Mao

Postdoctoral Investigator, Dept. of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry

  • ​2023, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
  • Project: Data-assimilative hybrid modeling of carbon export and flux attenuation mechanisms in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean ecosystem using mechanistic and AI/ML approaches

Technical Staff

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Theodore Calianos

Research Assistant, Dept. of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry

  • 2024, B.S., Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Lab Alumni

Rhegan Thomason

NSF C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD Fellow (2022 - 2024)

  • B.S., Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
  • Current position: PhD student at the University of California, Los Angeles

Project: Modeling and analysis of the flow of carbon through heterotrophic bacteria

Dr. Jens Terhaar

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 using GFDL-ESM4 and observations

Annabella Amato

WHOI 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

Dr. Ashley Dinauer

NSF OCE Postdoctoral Fellow (December 2021 - June 2022)

  • Ph.D., Climate Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • Current position: Senior Data Scientist, CIBO Technologies

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

Oreoluwa Solanke

WHOI Summer Student Fellow (June - August 2020)

  • B.A., Earth Science, Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Current position: Research Assistant in Proteomics, The Wistar Institute

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