Brett walker university of hawaii5/7/2023 ![]() Ily Iglesias is a current PhD student in the Ocean Sciences department at UCSC and a graduate student researcher at NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center. ![]() Check out their website () and blog () Natasha's website Outreach services that Natasha is involved with include, advising two undergraduate students on independent Senior Thesis projects, served as Graduate Student Representative for her department where she spearheaded writing a Graduate Student Handbook and started several community-oriented functions that are still ongoing, and finally is an active member of the graduate student group CORE that hosts monthly/quarterly events to enhance communication and inclusivity in the sciences. Natasha is also working with the USGS to study chemosynthetic mussels from deep sea methane seep environments to characterize the role of nitrogen in this food web. For her dissertation work, Natasha has extended collaborations with Archaeologists and Ecologists to use archaeological shell middens to reconstruct nearshore productivity and understand how climatic biogeochemical shifts have impacted coastal food webs. With these interests, she is using novel bioarchives and isotopic tools (bulk and CSIA) to unveil the productivity of marine ecosystem in otherwise inaccessible environments such as the deep-sea and the geologic past. Natasha's research interests are in ecosystem geochemistry, environmental change and marine ecology. Natasha is finishing her PhD in 2021, and moving to a Post Doc at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. Vokhshoori" ! Congratulations on best student paper award, GSA 2021! ![]() Current projects are aimed at studying the degradation of coral skeletons over millennia and creating paleoclimate records of the Central Equatorial Pacific Ocean as well as near the Hawaiian Islands to figure out how open ocean ecosystems have been changing over the last hundreds to thousands of years. Her PhD projects allowed her to send robots into the deep sea and involved a variety of drilling, weighing, and analytical techniques required to turn coral skeletons into amino acids in order to measure isotopic information. Then upon entering graduate school at UC Santa Cruz, she continued studying corals, only in this case the deep sea variety, which record within their growth layers the signal of nutrients and phytoplankton in the waters above. For her senior project she examined the signal of nuclear bomb fallout which was quickly integrated into a coral in the eastern tropical Pacific, noticeable through radiocarbon analysis. She received a bachelors in Earth System Science from UC Irvine where she spent three years in a radiocarbon lab working with corals. Matt regularly teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses, and has been active in campus leadership around undergraduate teaching issues.ĭanielle Glynn is a scientist studying how ocean ecosystems are changing with climate using the chemistry recorded in deep sea corals. His lab research group consists a fantastic group of graduate students, postdocs, undergraduate researchers and visitors, all overseen by lab manager Stephanie Christensen, and regularly convenes for lab meetings at favored local establishments to swap ideas and stories over a good brew. Over the last 20 yrs Matt has established a research program focused on developing new molecular isotope approaches to understanding ocean biogeochemisty, ecological cycles, and reconstructing the ocean’s past. Following post-doctoral positions at Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie (Paris) with Claude Largeau, the Carnegie Institution (Washington DC) with Marilyn Fogel, and University of Hawaii (SOEST Young Investigator award), he joined the faculty of the Ocean Sciences department at UCSC in 2001. He then worked for 2 years in France at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s marine pollution studies lab (Monaco) as a marine analytical chemist, before returning for a PhD at the University of Washington, in Seattle, with John Hedges. Matt received his BS from UC San Diego’s Rodger Revelle College in 1987, in Chemistry and biochemistry.
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