Graduate Student Adventures in Antarctica

Rutgers has been participating in the National Science Foundation’s Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project at Palmer Station Antarctica for over 30 years. During the fall of 2021, graduate students Quintin Diou-Cass and Joe Gradone…

Congratulations Tricia Thibodeau who recently published exciting work in the journal Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Congratulations Tricia Thibodeau who recently published exciting work in the journal Aquatic Microbial Ecology. The pteropod (pelagic snail) Limacina helicina antarctica is a dominant grazer along the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) and plays…
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Blooming Antarctica

story by Helen Hill for MITgcm The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in the global carbon cycle by acting as a major sink for CO2. In particular, coastal regions around Antarctica can be understood to play an outsize role, with…

Great work and Congratulations to the 2021 Palmer LTER field team

The COVID pandemic has been extremely challenging for field science.  Despite the challenges the Palmer LTER team was able to conduct a field expedition aboard the RV Nathaniel Palmer in November and December along the West Antarctic Peninsula.…
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Exciting research published!

Heather Kim (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) published a new modeling manuscript in the Journal of Biogeosciences.  Her manuscript titled “Modeling polar marine ecosystem functions guided by bacterial physiological and taxonomic traits.”…

Congratulations to Schuyler Nardelli (Rutgers University) for completing her PhD

Her thesis was focused on understanding ecosystem dynamics in the West Antarctic Peninsula. Her thesis focused on the physical drivers of phytoplankton productivity and diversity, its relationship to the seasonal phenology in Antarctic krill…

Congratulations to PAL LTER leader Scott Doney (University of Virginia) who was named a Fellow for the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)

This honor was initiated in 2015 to honor ASLO members who have advanced the aquatic sciences via their exceptional contributions to the benefit of the society and its publications, meetings, and other activities.  The commitment and service…