Gregory L. Britten (Assistant Scientist, WHOI)
Greg is a biological oceanographer and ecologist developing models of marine populations and ecosystems. Greg received his PhD in earth system science from the University of California, Irvine, an M.Sc. in biology from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, a B.Sc. in statistics & biology from Dalhousie, and was a postdoctoral researcher in earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sarah Zedler (Research Associate III, WHOI)
Sarah is a physical oceanographer pursuing questions related to planktonic biophysics. Sarah received her PhD from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, an M.A. in the department of geography of UC Santa Barbara, and a B.S. in physics from UC Davis. Sarah has postdoc experience from Texas A&M, UT Austin, KAUST, U Hawaii, and worked as a research scientist at the National Oceanography Centre, UK.
Matthew Woodstock (WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar)
Matthew is a WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar working on the development of individual-based models and software describing fish movement and trophic ecology. Matthew received his Ph.D. in biological sciences from Florida International University, his M.Sc. in marine biology from Nova Southeastern University, and his B.Sc. in ecology, evolution, and behavioral biology from Beloit College.
Lael Wakamatsu (PhD Student, University of Tasmania, co-supervised with Andy Fischer and Chris Bolch)
Lael is pursuing her PhD at the University of Tasmania Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies where her thesis is focused on modeling harmful algal blooms in marine aquaculture farms in eastern Tasmania and in coastal systems more broadly. Lael obtained her B.Sc. in earth system science from the University of California, Irvine.
Danling Ma (PhD Student, MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Biological Oceanography)
Danling is pursuing her PhD in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program where she is studying marine biogeochemistry and plankton ecology. Danling obtained her M.Sc. in environmental sciences from ETH Zurich and her B.Sc. in natural resources and environmental science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Former Group Members
While at MIT:
Christine Padalino, Mesoscale eddies and the air-sea flux of CO2, 2022-2023, MIT masters student
Simona Meiler, Evaluating marine diazotroph biomass distributions using nifH gene abundance observations, 2019-2020, MIT visiting graduate student from ETH Zurich
Christine Padalino, Covariation of mixed layer depth and phytoplankton concentrations in the North Pacific, 2020-2022, MIT undergraduate
Michelle Yin, Machine learning models of chlorophyll variability in the North Pacific, 2020, MIT undergraduate
Morgan Mayborne, Stephanie Howe, Omozusi Guobadia, Edward Guthru, Stochastic models of COVID-19, 2020, MIT undergraduate
Kathryn Tso, An updated decomposition analysis of the ocean’s biological pumps, 2020, MIT undergraduate
While at UCI:
Syed Faizanul Haque, Stochastic models of marine microbial populations, 2017-2018, UCI undergraduate
Henry Sue, Empirical models of the ocean’s vertical organic matter flux profile, 2017–2018, UCI undergraduate
Megha Rudresh, Models of plankton competition in a mixing environment, 2017, UCI undergraduate
Lael Wakamatsu, Testing the temperature-ballast hypothesis in the Southern Ocean, 2016, UCI undergraduate