Faculty Awards for Women: Tracing Sources and Sinks of Particles in the Ocean

这一奖项的获得者是海底边界流、光学和颗粒浓度跨学科研究的领先者。在这项为期五年的奖项中，她参加了世界海洋环流实验(WOCE)，这是一个描述和了解全球海洋环流、其年代际变化及其对气候影响的计划。她特别感兴趣的是研究海洋中颗粒的来源和汇，以及从生产或引入海洋到最终并入沉积物的转化和运输过程。WOCE将提供并有机会在未来十年内测量所有海洋中颗粒物浓度的可变性。她计划实时绘制来自透射仪的数据，透射仪会对水柱中颗粒的变化做出反应，CTD会测量选定的WOCE邮轮的电导率、温度和深度。近期的重点将放在太平洋。

The recipient of this FAW Award is a leader in interdisciplinary research on benthic boundary flows, optics and particle concentrations. During this five year award she participate in the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), a program to describe and understand the global ocean circulation, its decadal changes and its influence on climate. Her specific interest is studying the sources and sinks of particles in the ocean and the transformation and transport process from production or introduction into the ocean to final incorporation into the sediments. WOCE will provide and opportunity to measure the variability of particulate matter concentration (PMC) throughout all oceans during the next decade. She plans to plot the data in real time from transmissometers, which respond to changes in particles in the water column and CTDs, which measure Conductivity, Temperature and Depth, for selected WOCE cruises. The near term emphasis will be on the Pacific Ocean.