§ Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Polar phytoplankton ecology and physiology, plankton carbon cycle, long-term changes in marine ecosystems, effect of climate change on phytoplankton communities, photosynthetic pigments, primary production

Education

• Post-graduate Fellow, 1986-1989, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
• Ph.D., 1983, Biological Oceanography, University of Washington
• M.S., 1981, Biological Oceanography, University of Washington
• B.S., 1975, Biological Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Awards

• Visiting Scholar, University of Trondheim, 1988
• Antarctic Medal, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 1988
• Visiting Senior Research Fellow, GSFC, NASA, 1998-1999

Affiliations

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Association of Limnology and Oceanography
• Ecological Society of America
• Phycological Society of America

Recent and Upcoming Sea Time

• Western Antarctic Peninsula (January 2008) on ARSV Laurence M Gould
• Weddell Sea (June 2008, March-April 2009, January-February 2010, January 2012) on ARSV Nathanial B Palmer