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Sonya Dyhrman

Associate Professor

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Biology and Paleo Environment

102E Geoscience

61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000

Palisades

10964-8000

Phone:

(845) 365-8165

Fax:

(845) 365-8163

sdyhrman@ldeo.columbia.edu

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I am broadly interested in how marine microbes like phytoplankton interact with their geochemical environment, where I use molecular level tools to study the intersection of microbial physiology and biogeochemistry.

Microbial oceanography group members are using a suite of genome-enabled approaches to examine the distribution and activities of marine phytoplankton, and how they influence cycling of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus. Our work often uses model cultures to understand and bound field observations made on research cruises that span the from polar to tropical systems. This research emphasis provides advanced training for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars and it is also used as a framework for the development and implementation of inquiry-based educational activities for children.

Education

List of degrees from highest to lowest:

Ph.D.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego

11/1999

B.A.

Dartmouth College

06/1994

Honors & Awards:

Marie Tharp Fellow, Columbia University Earth Institute

Ocean Life Institute Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Sir Allen Sewall Fellow, Griffith University Australian Rivers Institute