Heidi M Sosik

Heidi M. Sosik was born on May 3, 1965, in Abington, PA. She received the S.B. and S.M. degrees in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in oceanography from the University of California, San Diego (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) in 1993. After two years as a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, she accepted a scientific staff appointment there in 1996. She is currently an Associate Scientist in the Biology Department. Her research has been at the interface of phytoplankton ecology and optical oceanography, with focus on environmental regulation of phytoplankton biomass and productivity. She has used a variety of optical approaches to investigate photophysiology and nutrient limitation in phytoplankton from the California Current System, the Black Sea, the Southern Ocean, and coastal waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. She is currently involved in development of single cell methods to characterize phytoplankton physiology and community structure and in implementation of new sampling strategies for observing in the coastal ocean. Dr. Sosik is a member of the Phycological Society of America, the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, and the American Geophysical Union. She received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 1996.