Winter 2026 Departmental Achievements
Awards: Professor Pieter Visscher Prof. Visscher received a Distinguished Career Award from The Geological Society of America. Over a distinguished career spanning more than three decades, Dr. Visscher has led advances in our understanding of the complex interactions between microbial communities, biogeochemical cycles, and the formation of sedimentary structures, bridging microbiology and Earth system science. […]
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DMS Prof. Pieter Visscher honored with GSA Career Award
Please join us in congratulating Prof. Pieter Visscher for receiving the Geological Society of America’s 2025 Distinguished Career Award (sponsored by the Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division). Pieter is honored for his decade-long involvement in an NSF-sponsored project that has worked with undergraduate students studying microbial sediments in Puerto Rico. Between 2000 and 2011, Pieter brought […]
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Avery Point Spotlight: Jeff Godfrey
By: Anne L. Gilewski Officially, Jeff is an Academic Assistant at UConn’s Marine Sciences Department, but if you’ve ever been lucky enough to interact with Jeff, you know he’s far more than that. Over his 26-year career directing dive operations, Jeff standardized a formal curriculum that includes course work for Open Water Dive and Scientific […]
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Seaweed self defense!
Did you know that seaweed practices self-defense? A new paper from the Matassa Lab led by recent PhD graduate Sean Ryan on seaweed defense plasticity has been published in Functional Ecology. They investigated how a species of seaweed (Fucus vesiculosus) defends itself from herbivorous snails (Littorina littorea) along its latitudinal range in the coastal northeast […]
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New seafloor lander tested and in action
By Elizabeth Weidner. Over the past year, the Broadband Acoustics Lab, led by DMS Assistant Professor Elizabeth Weidner, designed and built a new kind of seafloor lander to investigate how melting glaciers are transforming the coastal Arctic ocean. The custom-built instrument houses several advanced sonar systems that use sound to observe processes that are otherwise […]
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Travels to the Other Side of the World -
Alumni profile – Tyler Griffin -
Spring 2025 Departmental Achievements -
DMS students help mapping sediments and fauna in Long Island Sound -
DMS researchers test novel underwater “presenter” helmet -
Celebrating Student Research at the 15th Biennial Feng Colloquium -
Graduate Students Bring Ocean Science to Life at Sip ‘n Science Event -
Meet Janet Laflamme: The Jack-of-all Trades Driving Our Department’s Success -
Harmony of Nature II: Music as a Tool for Science Communication -
Paper on ocean mercury fluxes in Science Advances -
“Just keep swimming: challenges in PhD research” -
DMS sophomore to study if tiny algae grow calcium carbonate crystals -
At DMS phytoplankton are now on IFCB-TV -
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Summary of Summer/Fall 2024 Departmental Achievements
