People
Principal Investigator
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Dr. Heather 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
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Dr. Emelia Chamberlain
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
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Dr. Yiming Guo
Postdoctoral Investigator, Dept. of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
- 2022, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
- Project: Coupled physical-biogeochemical (ROMS) modeling of the United States Northeast Shelf and Slope region for Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
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Dr. Onur Karakuş
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
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Dr. Shun Mao
Postdoctoral Investigator, Dept. of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
- 2023, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
- Project: Data assimilative modeling of carbon export and flux attenuation mechanisms at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site
Students
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Rhegan Thomason
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
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, Amherst, MA
- Project: Data assimilation and modeling of the Arctic and Antarctic ecosystems
Lab Alumni
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 over the 21st century using GFDL-ESM4 and observations
Annabella Amato
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 Postdoctoral Fellow (December 2021 - June 2022)
- Ph.D., Climate Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Project: Global-scale modeling of the POC transfer efficiency and shallow-water CaCO3 dissolution
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)
- B.A., Earth Science, Columbia University, New York, NY
Project: Quantifying the biogeochemical role of marine microbes in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda