Affiliated Researchers

Ann Pearson's research focuses on applications of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen isotope geochemistry and molecular biology to biogeochemistry, oceanography, and Earth history.

Kemi Ashing-Giwa is a senior concentrating in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology with a secondary in Astrophysics.

Rui Bao joined EPS as a postdoctoral fellow in Ann Pearson’s group.

I am a biogeochemist studying the interactions between microbial life and the environment.

Amanda is working on a senior thesis to better understand the origin of a unique archaeal lipid, crenarchaeol, and its significance in microbial membranes.

José received his BSc in Oceanography from the Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico, and Ph.D. in Geology/Geochemistry from McMaster University, Canada (advisors: Drs. Mike Risk and Henry Schwarcz).

Susie Carter was born and grew up in Falmouth, MA, to parents who met at WHOI.  She graduated from Harvard in 1990 in Geological Sciences.

I am an organic geochemist and geobiologist studying past and present interactions of microbial life with geochemical cycles and climate from a molecular perspective.

Ana’s PhD research deals with the carbon isotopic composition of organic compounds in microbial mats.