People
Principal Investigator

Dr. Heather Kim
Associate Scientist (tenure-track), Dept. of Marine Chemistry and 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. 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 (mechanistic, AI/ML) modeling of bacterial and ecosystem dynamics in the Arctic Ocean

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 (mechanistic, AI/ML) modeling of the biological pump and microbial processes in the West Antarctic Peninsula ecosystem

Dr. Yiming Guo
Postdoctoral Investigator, Dept. of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
- 2022, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
- Project: Coupled physical-biogeochemical (Regional Ocean Modeling System) modeling for OAE strategies in the U.S. Northeast Shelf and Slope region

Dr. Shun Mao
Postdoctoral Investigator, Dept. of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
- 2023, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
- Project: Data-assimilative hybrid (mechanistic, AI/ML) modeling of carbon export and flux attenuation mechanisms in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean ecosystem
Technical Staff

Theodore Calianos
Research Assistant, Dept. of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
- 2024, B.S., Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
- Project: Data assimilation and modeling of the Arctic and Antarctic ecosystems
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