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New Faces at CMOP
02/11/08 Portland, OR
New CMOPers (left to right) Tawnya Peterson, Grant Law, Mariya Smit, and Joe Needoba.
The Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction (CMOP) welcomes several new faculty members and research staff to our team. C. Grant Law, Mariya Smit, Tawnya Peterson, and Joseph Needoba are among CMOP's recent appointments.
Joe Needoba and Steve Fitzwater (MBARI) deploying an osmopump in Elkhorn Slough.
Joe Needoba joined CMOP last October 2007 as an Assistant Professor, jointly appointed to CMOP and the Department of Environmental Biomolecular Systems.
Needoba is a leading researcher in the area of nutrient biogeochemistry, with a special emphasis on nitrogen cycling and the use of sensor networks to better understand ecosystem dynamics at increased resolutions.
Tawnya Peterson getting into a submersible, the Delta Sub, in the Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C., Canada
Tawnya Peterson is a new Research Assistant Professor with CMOP who is also a joint appointment with EBS.
Although she has been on campus for several months, she only officially started this January.
Peterson's dissertation research focused on phytoplankton and the environmental physical and chemical factors that influence their development, and her post-doctoral research further examined the development of tools that can be used to better study microbial communities and the nutrient dynamics that influence them.
At CMOP, she will continue to "develop and utilize novel tools such as imaging flow cytometry and bio-optical instrumentation in a quest to gain a deeper knowledge of fundamental aspects of phytoplankton ecology and physiology."
More detail about Needoba and Peterson's work is described in this article on the Department of Science and Engineering website.
Grant Law with a Humboldt Squid (Dosidicus gigas), caught off the Oregon coast, Summer 2007. Law says, "Humboldts are more typically found in subtropical waters, but have recently experienced dramatic range extensions—as far as SE Alaska!"
Grant Law comes to CMOP as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant whose Ph.D. work examined the coastal margins of the northeastern US.
There, his research focused on "region wide environmental patterns of variability and their effects on sea-scallop populations" and "the fine-scale physical and biological structure of the water column."
His previous research associations include: Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences (New Brunswick, New Jersey), NOAA-Fisheries, Oregon Health & Science University, and Bonneville Dam.
Here at CMOP, Grant looks forward to modeling the movement of salmon in the Columbia River, using a particle tracking approach.
More about Law and his work can be found at Law's web page.
Mariya Smit, Sr. Research Associate with Holly Simon.
Mariya Smit started with CMOP and EBS in December 2007, and is working with Holly Simon as a Senior Research Associate.
She brings to CMOP over 15 years of experience in microbiology/human genetics, and has held positions in academia and industry on both the east and west coasts of the U.S. as well as in Russia and Japan.
Currently Smit's research interests at CMOP include the analysis of gene expression in environmental samples taken from the Columbia River, and the development of deployable biosensors for monitoring of water microorganisms.
New CMOPers (left to right) Tawnya Peterson, Grant Law, Mariya Smit, and Joe Needoba.
The Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction (CMOP) welcomes several new faculty members and research staff to our team. C. Grant Law, Mariya Smit, Tawnya Peterson, and Joseph Needoba are among CMOP's recent appointments.
Joe Needoba and Steve Fitzwater (MBARI) deploying an osmopump in Elkhorn Slough.
Needoba is a leading researcher in the area of nutrient biogeochemistry, with a special emphasis on nitrogen cycling and the use of sensor networks to better understand ecosystem dynamics at increased resolutions.
Tawnya Peterson getting into a submersible, the Delta Sub, in the Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C., Canada
Although she has been on campus for several months, she only officially started this January.
Peterson's dissertation research focused on phytoplankton and the environmental physical and chemical factors that influence their development, and her post-doctoral research further examined the development of tools that can be used to better study microbial communities and the nutrient dynamics that influence them.
At CMOP, she will continue to "develop and utilize novel tools such as imaging flow cytometry and bio-optical instrumentation in a quest to gain a deeper knowledge of fundamental aspects of phytoplankton ecology and physiology."
More detail about Needoba and Peterson's work is described in this article on the Department of Science and Engineering website.
Grant Law with a Humboldt Squid (Dosidicus gigas), caught off the Oregon coast, Summer 2007. Law says, "Humboldts are more typically found in subtropical waters, but have recently experienced dramatic range extensions—as far as SE Alaska!"
There, his research focused on "region wide environmental patterns of variability and their effects on sea-scallop populations" and "the fine-scale physical and biological structure of the water column."
His previous research associations include: Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences (New Brunswick, New Jersey), NOAA-Fisheries, Oregon Health & Science University, and Bonneville Dam.
Here at CMOP, Grant looks forward to modeling the movement of salmon in the Columbia River, using a particle tracking approach.
More about Law and his work can be found at Law's web page.
Mariya Smit, Sr. Research Associate with Holly Simon.
Currently Smit's research interests at CMOP include the analysis of gene expression in environmental samples taken from the Columbia River, and the development of deployable biosensors for monitoring of water microorganisms.
