All students in the lab presented posters at the Ocean Sciences meeting & Colleen lead an MPOWIR townhall on "Building and Inclusive Community in Oceanography"
MPOWIR started Virtual Discussions on a variety of topics - please join us for the next one
We participated in our fifth NOAA ECOMON cruise, providing flow through optics and radiometry.
Angela Yu successfully defended her M.S. thesis.
Virginie Sonnet returned to GSO as a Ph.D. student - welcome back Virginie!
We have reached the 2-year mark for continuous observations of optics and phytoplankton community composition observations at the GSO dock.
Summer 2019
We participated in our fourth NOAA ECOMON cruise, providing flow through optics and radiometry.
Colleen gave a talk about metrics for measuring algal biodiversity at the "Data Needs for Hyperspectral Detection of Algal Bloom Diversity Across the Globe" workshop in Ostend, Belgium
Spring 2019
Colleen was awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor!
We participated in our third NOAA ECOMON cruise, providing flow through optics.
Audrey presented the poster “GSO dock Phytoplankton and Optics Observatory” providing an update of the classification success of our Imaging Flow CytoBot at the Coastal Ecology Assessment Innovation and Modeling (C-AIM) Symposium
Colleen, Audrey and Jessica presented “Phytoplankton Distributions in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: Perspectives from an IFCB and Long-Term Survey” at the Imaging Flow Cytobot Users Workshop
Summer 2018
Brice Grunert successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation!
Virginie Sonnet heads back to France. We hope to have Virginie back in the lab soon!
Virginie Sonnet joins to lab as a visiting M.S. student from the IMBRSea program
Angela Yu wins third place in the World Water Day student research competition with her poster "Assessing spatial and temporal effects of the Detroit River on algal bloom distribution in western Lake Erie"
The whole team presented talks/posters at the Ocean Sciences meeting.
Colleen and Audrey presented an overview of the "GSO dock phytoplankton and optics observatory" at the Coastal Ecology Assessment Innovation and Modeling (C-AIM) Symposium
Colleen will be co-leading the Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention (MPOWIR) program for the next 4 years with support from the National Science Foundation
In collaboration with NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Narragansett lab, our lab was selected for funding support from NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System Proving Ground and Risk for a project titled "Optimization of phytoplankton functional type algorithms for VIIRS ocean color data in the Northeast U.S. Continental Ecosystem"
Colleen gave an invited seminar at the University of Connecticut, Department of Marine Science, "Phytoplankton Community Size Structure – Environmental Controls and Export"
The lab was selected for funding support from Rhode Island Sea Grant for a project titled "Cells to Satellite: Imaging Rhode Island Harmful Algal Blooms"
Summer 2017
Kyle Turner from George Mason University joined the lab for the summer as a SURFO
Brice presented a poster, "Optically estimating CDOM composition across diverse spectral ranges," at the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry meeting
Colleen presented a poster "Environmental Controls of Phytoplankton Size Structure" at the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry meeting and Trait-based Approaches to Ocean Life Workshop.
Our Lake Erie optical data from 2013 and 2014 were submitted to NASA SeaBASS
Colleen gave a webinar "Global Shifts in Phytoplankton Community Size Structure – Connections to Export Flux” to NOAA's Ocean Colour Coordinating Group
Brice gave a poster “Optically estimating CDOM composition across diverse spectral ranges” at the International Ocean Colour Sciences meeting
Angela have a poster “Evaluating the influence of the Detroit River on algal bloom distribution in western Lake Erie” at the International Association for Great Lakes Research conference
Colleen gave a talk at the ASLO meeting “Global shifts in phytoplankton community size structure in response to environmental controls” and a poster on this topic at the International Ocean Colour Sciences meeting
Fall 2016
Brice Grunert presented a poster at the Ocean Optics meeting, "Optically estimating CDOM composition across diverse spectral ranges"
Audrey Barnett moved to the University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography
Colleen gave an invited talk "Color Radiometry Remote Sensing of Coastal Systems: Opportunity and Challenges” at the New England Estuarine Research Society meeting
Colleen Mouw joined the University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography as an Assistant Professor
Brice Grunert presented a poster at the Ocean Sciences meeting "Quantifying radiometric sensitivity to ranges of CDOM absorption and spectral slope in Arctic and sub-Arctic waters"
Angela Yu presented a poster at the Ocean Sciences meeting "“Assessing the spatial distribution and physical drivers of cyanobacterial blooms in western Lake Erie”
Colleen Mouw gave a talk at the Ocean Sciences meeting “Phytoplankton Size Impact on Export Flux in the Global Ocean”
Colleen Mouw lead the MPOWIR town hall at the Ocean Sciences meeting. Please submit any program suggestions you might have.
Fall 2015
An extensive global POC flux data compilation was submitted to PANGAEA
Colleen Mouw presented a seminar, "Phytoplankton size variability in the global ocean and its impact on export flux" at Louisiana State University, School of the Coast and Environment
Colleen Mouw gave a seminar, "Phytoplankton Cells to Ecosystems: Remote Sensing from the Globe to the Coast" at the University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography
Brice Grunert passed his comprehensive exams and dissertation proposal defense and is now officially a Ph.D. candidate
Summer 2015
Angela Yu was awarded the Michigan Sea Graduate Student Fellowship
Brice Grunert gave a poster, "Role of in water light field on phytoplankton composition in the eastern Bering Sea" at the International Ocean Science meeting
Rebekka Guyon, an Undergraduate Researcher, joins the lab
Winter/Spring 2015
Ben Kramka was awarded the Michigan Tech Departmental Scholar Award
Angela Yu received a Michigan Space Grant Graduate Fellowship
Angela Yu gave a poster, "Assessing spatial and temporal distribution of harmful algal blooms in Western Lake Erie" at the International Association for Great Lakes Research Conference