Education:

2000            Ph.D.  Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California San Diego (UCSD);  M. I. Latz and F. Azam, Co-advisors.  Thesis title: “Effect of Fluid Shear on Dinoflagellate Population Growth, Cell Physiology, and Toxin Content”

1991            M.S. Oceanography, Oregon State University, College of Oceanography (OSU); G. Taghon Major Professor.  Thesis title: “The Biology of a Shallow-Water Methane Vent”

1988            B.S. Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Scientific Experience:

Currently      Lamont Associate Research Professor, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University

2004 - 2010    Doherty Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

2003 - 2004    Postdoctoral Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

2001 - 2003    Postdoctoral Researcher, US EPA Gulf Ecology Division.

1993 - 2000    Graduate Research Assistant, SIO, UCSD

1991 - 1993    Assistant Scientist, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA

1989 - 1991    Graduate Research Assistant, OSU

1987                Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin, Trout Lake Research Station.                    

                        Lake primary productivity measurements.

Special Courses/Workshops:

2009            LDEO Open Ocean CO2 Addition Experiment Feasibility workshop

2002            “DIACES Symposium” (Dissertations Symposium for the Advancement of Coastal, Estuarine and Great Lakes Science).  Guanica, Puerto Rico.

2002            “Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms”.  Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA.

1995            “Ocean Turbulence: a Basic Environmental Property for Plankton”.  Institut de Ciencies del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.

Awards and Recognition:

2016       Lamont Excellence in Mentoring Nominee

2011       Best Teaching in Earth and Environmental Sciences (Columbia Univ. Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences)

2003        J. D. Grice Postdoctoral Fellowship (WHOI)