Rickie was recently awarded funds from the GSO Alum Fund (https://web.uri.edu/gso/research/alum-fund-awardees/) to support her research for an upcoming cruise that will follow an upwelling plume along Oregon and California as part of the PUPCYCLE project. Rickie will test her own hypotheses and collaborate with others to learn more about how primary production in upwelled waters changes through time. She is grateful for the GSO Alum Fund for providing her with the opportunity to expand her research capacity to include growth and grazing analysis of bacteria, phyto-, zoo-, and mixo-plankton.