§ 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

Honors and Awards

• Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, 1998-1999
• Fellow, Marshall Fund, Norway, 1991
• Norwegian Research Council, Visiting Scholar, University of Trondheim, Norway 1988
• Antarctic Medal, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 1988
• American Association of University Women, Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 1981-1982
• Business and Professional Women's Association, Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 1981

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

• Weddell Sea (March-April 2009, January-February 2010, January 2012) on ARSV Nathanial B Palmer