Western North AtlanticRV Knorr : May-June 2014 (16 days)
Woods Hole, MA - Woods Hole, MA Project Title: “Western Atlantic Climate Study II” (WACS2) Chief Scientist: Patricia Quinn, NOAA Description: The primary objective of the cruise is to quantify and characterize the organic enrichment of sea spray aerosols. My project involves quantifying and describing the distribution of transparent exopolymer particles (TEPs) and microgels in the sea surface microlayer (SML), bulk surface water, and upper water column (<200m). I also collected surface and water column samples for total organic carbon (TOC) and nutrient analyses to better characterize the biogeochemistry of the field sampling. |
Gulf of AlaskaRV Melville : August 2013 (21 days)
Seattle, WA - Seattle, WA Project Title: “Refractory Dissolved Organic Carbon” (RDOC) Chief Scientist: Dennis Hansell, UM Description: The purpose of this cruise was to investigate a sink for refractory dissolved organic carbon suggested to exist in the deep North Pacific (Gulf of Alaska) by sampling DOC and other biogeochemical parameters. |
Ross Sea, AntarcticaRVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer :
February-April 2013 (53 days) McMurdo Station, Antarctica - Punta Arenas, Chile Project Title: “TRacing the fate of Algal Carbon Export in the Ross Sea” (TRACERS) Chief Scientist: Dennis Hansell, UM Description: The research focus of this cruise was to investigate the biogeochemistry associated after a phytoplankton bloom at the end of the Antarctic Austral Summer. I helped analyze and coordinate analyses of nutrients (silicic acid, phosphate, and nitrate) and collect samples for dissolved organic carbon (DOC). |