Biography

Diana Fontaine completed her Ph.D. in Oceanography here at GSO in the spring of
2024. For her Ph.D. research, Diana used field, lab, and bioinformatic approaches to
study phytoplankton diversity and productivity as part of the Northeast U.S. Shelf Long-Term Ecological Research and Narragansett Bay Long-Term Plankton Time Series programs. Prior to her Ph.D., she spent two years as a plankton analyst at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center studying phytoplankton in ballast water of cargo ships, and this work took her to ports all over the world! Diana received her B.A. in Marine Science from the University of San Diego in 2016 and is now a postdoctoral fellow working on a NOAA-funded marine carbon dioxide removal project with Drs. Hongjie Wang, Jaime Palter (GSO), and Jason Grear (EPA).