Photo collage by Colleen Durkin © 2025
Marine snow provides new clues about the export of carbon to the deep sea
MBARI article highlighting our 2025 paper in The ISME Journal.
Photo and art by Mariah Reading © 2017
Ask an Expert: Ocean and Coastal Impacts from Wildfires
Expert panelist for a Scientific Briefing webinar for the California Legislature, hosted by the California Ocean Science Trust.
Scientists race to gauge Los Angeles fires’ impact on ocean life
Comment for a Bloomberg article about potential impacts of the January 2025 wildfires on the ocean.
Photo by Natalia Llopis Monferrer © 2023
Exploring carbon export with ocean color
MBARI blog post for the Carbon Flux Ecology lab blog! We were also featured in an MBARI news story.
Art by Celia Jacobs © 2017
How a California wildfire created a buffet for marine microbes
Comment for a Science Magazine article about if wildfire ash falls could boost coastal nutrients.
Climate scientists should pay more attention to fish poop. Really.
Comment for a Vox News story about ocean carbon sequestration.
Photo © Gad Girling 2017
Fire and phytoplankton
Comment for a Vox News story about wildfires in Australia causing global phytoplankton responses.
A Serendipitous Study
Comment for the UCSB Current about our research cruise during a wildfire in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Wildfire impacts on phytoplankton
Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry science highlight.
EXPORTS: Notes from the Field
Ride, Sally, Ride: Sally Ride Saturdays on EXPORTS.
NAAMES: Notes from the Field
NAAMES IV: Setting Sail from San Juan.
Photo by Gad Girling © 2017
Project ACIDD
Comment for a PopSci article: “California's wildfires are affecting the oceans—and these researchers are the first to study it.”
Photo by Gad Girling © 2017
Sampling Thomas Fire Ash
Comment for a Santa Barbara Independent article about our graduate student cruise during the Thomas Fire.
WHOI Summer Research Spotlight
Investigating Phytoplankton from Space.
Bowdoin Summer Research Spotlight
Studying the Science of Red Tide.