{"id":35981,"date":"2020-05-19T16:04:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/?p=35981"},"modified":"2020-05-19T16:45:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:45:56","slug":"getting-to-know-diana-fontaine-uri-gso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/2020\/05\/19\/getting-to-know-diana-fontaine-uri-gso\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to know: Diana Fontaine, URI GSO"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of “The Breakdown,” RI C-AIM’s student newsletter, Diana Fontaine<\/a><\/strong>, doctoral candidate at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography, talks about her background and research as a marine biologist with C-AIM investigator Dr. Tatiana Rynearson, her advisor. <\/em><\/p>\n

My interest in marine biology began in a high school class during our dissection of a squishy sea cucumber. After realizing I could become a marine biologist, I decided to move across the country to pursue a degree in marine science at the University of San Diego. During the last two years of my undergraduate career, I worked in a larval ecology lab. Summertime meant keeping a close eye on tide tables to know when to collect my barnacle settlement plates in the rocky intertidal zone.<\/p>\n

After graduation, I accepted a job as a plankton analyst in the Marine Invasions Lab at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center<\/a> (SERC) in Edgewater, MD. There, I spent two years studying phytoplankton in ballast water of cargo ships and gaining experience with phytoplankton taxonomy and culturing techniques. I then decided to go to graduate school and found myself back in my favorite place, New England, at URI Graduate School of Oceanography with Dr. Tatiana Rynearson<\/a>.
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Read Diana's contributions to Oceanbites<\/strong>, a site dedicated to breaking down the latest in oceanographic research<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Learn More<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n

As a second year doctoral student, my work involves using genetic techniques to study phytoplankton diversity<\/a><\/strong> (Rynearson et al. 2020). In collaboration with the Northeast US Shelf Long-Term Ecological Research<\/a> site, I measure size-fractionated primary production rates across a spatial gradient from Narragansett Bay to the shelf-break. I am particularly interested in understanding how environmental stressors associated with climate change affect phytoplankton community dynamics and overall ecosystem function. I value science communication and enjoy my role as a student mentor and pen-pal in the Letters to a Pre-Scientist Program<\/strong><\/a> where I inspire youth to engage with science.<\/p>\n

During my free time, I love making pottery and being outdoors either at the beach or in the mountains of New Hampshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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