Meet the Students

Read about the research projects the UW Oceanography senior undergraduate students will be conducting during this expedition:

Mitchell Chong - Air-sea CO2 flux and its variability through eddies across the Kuroshio-Oyashio boundary

Erin Costello - Optical backscatter as a predictor of particulate organic carbon in the ocean

Nadine Harrison – Top-down versus bottom-up control of bacterial biomass along the Kuroshio Current

Jakob Jarecki - Determination of the change in anthropogenic carbon content in the Kuroshio Extension over the past 20 years using the C* method

Jordan McGowan – Estimating carbon export across the Kuroshio Extension from space

Chris Paschall - The effect of cold core eddies on biological productivity within the Kuroshio Current

Diane Perry – Kuroshio Extension net community production determined by continuous Equilibrator Inlet Mass Spectrometry (EIMS) O2/Ar ratios

Anton Shomshor – Mixing along the Kuroshio-Oyashio boundary: Tracking eddy movement across the Kuroshio Extension

Mariela Tuquero – Determination of pH variability across the Kuroshio Extension

Emma Wilson – Differences in phytoplankton abundance along the Kuroshio

Solomon Wilson – Evaluating changes in the anthropogenic carbon inventory in the Kuroshio Region using stable carbon isotopes