Plankton ecologist Patricia (Tricia) Thibodeau was curious as to why microscopic animals were migrating up to near the surface each night, even in places where the sunlight didn’t vary.
Continue reading "Patricia Thibodeau (postdoctoral fellow)"Kathy Beck has worked at GSO for 23 years. During her time at GSO she has worked for 4 Deans and 3 Interim Deans as the GSO Dean’s Executive Assistant and also worked with 3 Associate Deans. She worked in the Fish Building, helped move the Dean’s office to OSEC and continued on. Read her reflections about her work and the Bay Campus community and learn about her retirement plans.
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Lora Harris (Ph.D. 2006) did research to use chemicals of human origin, like artificial sweeteners and soaps as “fingerprints” to help determine if discharge from septic tank systems are polluting nearby watersheds. “In combination with isotopic tracers, this could help differentiate wastewater from agricultural sources, which would be useful” said Harris.
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Woods Hole Institution oceanographer Carin Ashjin (Ph.D.1991) spent 4.5 months in the Arctic as part of the MOSAiC expedition and then returned to a pandemic altered world. “I reflect on how what I thought would be surreal (working on a ship frozen into the ice in the middle of the Arctic Ocean) is now normal, and the world that I left behind is the one that is surreal”.
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Chris Reddy, (Ph.D. 1998), offers his perspective on the Indian Ocean oil spill. Chris says” I’m a scientist who has studied oil spills all over the world for more than three decades, including the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. I’ve learned that the way an oil spill unfolds is not always simple or straightforward, and the worst-case scenario isn’t a fait accompli.”
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