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Dr. Jeremy T. Mathis is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Oceanography in the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Marine Chemistry. He was been working on high latitude carbon cycling for the past eight years and has recently shifted much of his focus to ocean acidification in the Arctic and surrounding sub-polar seas. His work has demonstrated that ocean acidification and the suppression of important carbonate minerals that organisms use to build their shells is a systemic problem in the continental shelf seas surrounding Alaska. While the direct impacts to marine organisms are unclear at this time the continued study of these processes are critically important in understanding how the ecosystem will respond to this added stressor. Dr. Mathis has a number of funded project in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, and Gulf of Alaska.
Natalie received her BS in Marine Science from the University of South Carolina (USC). She worked in the Organic Geochemistry Lab at USC for several years as lab and project managers, researching organic matter cycling in near shore environments around the globe. Then, Natalie headed north for graduate school and joined the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility (ASIF). She received her MS in Chemical Oceanography from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). Luckily, she did her fieldwork in offshore cays in Belize and studied the paleoecology of mangroves during those short winter days. Natalie has been the lab manager and outreach coordinator for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for the past two years. She is excited to be a new member in the Ocean Acidification group at UAF.
Jessica Cross is a doctoral student in Chemical Oceanography at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. After a pivotal internship at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences during the summer of 2007, Cross completed her B.S. in Chemistry at Rhodes College of Memphis, TN and applied for graduate programs in oceanography. Her work with Dr. Mathis describes the chemical interactions of inorganic carbon and carbonate minerals over the Southeastern Bering Sea Shelf, an important US commercial fishery and vital subsistence resource for coastal Alaskan communities. Cross plans to complete her PhD in 2012 and continue her studies of high-latitude carbon cycling and coastal chemical dynamics. [Photo by Jason Pavlich]
Dr. Wiley Evans is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Chemical Oceanography at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He received a B.A. in Marine Science from the University of Hawaii Hilo, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Oceanography from Oregon State University. His research has broadly focused on physical-chemical-biological interactions in the sea, and his PhD work was aimed specifically at understanding sea-air CO2 flux variability on the northeast Pacific continental margin. His work has described the seasonal cycle of CO2 fluxes in the coastal oceans of Oregon and British Columbia, and in the Columbia River estuary. Dr. Evans has extended his interest in carbon cycle science to problems associated with ocean acidification, and is focused on addressing time/space variability in carbon system parameters in Alaska's coastal ocean.
Stacey is originally from Iowa where she received a B.S. in Geology and a B.A. in Earth Science from the University of Northern Iowa' Department of Earth Sciences where she also worked as a research, laboratory, and teaching assistant for undergraduate classes ranging from geology to astronomy. Here at UAF, she is currently working towards a master's degree in Chemical Oceanography and is assessing ocean acidification as a manifestation of climate change in Glacier Bay, Alaska. She will also be examining the impact of glacial meltwater on the chemistry of surface waters in this fjord system while comparing her findings with those of a similar fjord system, Prince William Sounds, Alaska.
Kristen Shake is a master's student from Anchorage, Alaska. Growing up in and recreating around coastal Alaska, Kristen has gained an interdisciplinary perspective of the marine environment. She is a graduate of the UA Geography program, where she gained a B.S. in Geography–Environmental Sciences in 2009. As a master's student within the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at UAF, Kristen has sought to supplement her regional knowledge of the Northern Gulf of Alaska (GOA), one of the state's most productive fisheries, with hands-on research into its complex carbon biogeochemistry. Her current projects include analyzing the effects of seasonal aragonite undersaturation states in the GOA and examining the seasonal influence of glacial meltwater and freshwater run off on the surface water chemistry of western Prince William Sound. Upon graduation in 2011, Kristen plans to draw upon her interdisciplinary background of natural resource management and the physical sciences and pursue a PhD. in the area of marine policy. Beyond the classroom, her interests include hiking, kayaking, and skiing.
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