Meet Janet LaFlamme: The Jack-of-all Trades Driving Our Department’s Success
Janet LaFlamme is a Financial Assistant at the Department of Marine Sciences, playing a vital role in keeping the department running smoothly. In this interview with current graduate student Samantha Rush, she shed light into her essential position and how she has watched the field change over the years. Samantha: I found that you obtained […]
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Harmony of Nature II: Music as a Tool for Science Communication
By Samantha Rush. PhD candidate Molly James, pianist Sophy Chung, and composer Maxwell Lu have joined forces to release Harmony of Nature II: Waves, an album showcasing the growing potential of music as a tool for science communication. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Molly and Sophy began helping each other learn and practice their respective languages: […]
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Paper on ocean mercury fluxes in Science Advances
Congratulations to UConn authors Yipeng He, Hannah Inman, and Robert Mason, as well as their collaborators, on their paper “Elevated methylmercury in Arctic rain and aerosol linked to air-sea exchange of dimethylmercury,” which was published in Science Advances on March 19! From the authors: The results of our study of mercury (Hg) dynamics in the […]
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“Just keep swimming: challenges in PhD research”
The ole adage holds true for DMS graduate student Emma Siegfried’s first experiments on a new species of sand lance By Samantha Rush and Hannes Baumann In 1984, the late Alphonse Smigielski and colleagues published a research paper that showed how American sand lance (Ammodytes americanus) could be successfully spawned and reared in the […]
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DMS sophomore to study if tiny algae grow calcium carbonate crystals
A supply grant from UConn’s Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) will test whether cyanobacteria could assist with removing carbon dioxide Evelyn Lewis glances at the well plates full of colorful slime in Prof. Visscher’s lab and smiles. The life thriving in there is invisible to the naked eye, but she knows how to keep the […]
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At DMS phytoplankton are now on IFCB-TV -
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Summary of Summer/Fall 2024 Departmental Achievements -
A delayed spring bloom along the West Antarctica Peninsula -
Meet DMS alumnus Dr. Chris Murray -
Professor Michael Whitney promoted to Full Professor -
Professor Julie Granger promoted to Full Professor -
Professor Jamie Vaudrey promoted to Associate Research Professor -
Professor Lin receives two research awards -
New fellowship offers outreach experience for DMS students! -
DMS at Ocean Science Meeting 2024 -
Summary of Spring 2024 Department Achievements
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Sip N’ Science: Ocean Sciences on Tap -
DMS Alumni – Dr. Amin Ilia -
National Ocean Sciences Bowl 2024, 2024 National Ocean Sciences Bowl Team Coginchaug
