Sushmita Patwardhan Successfully Defends her Thesis Proposal

Sushmita Patwardhan graduated from the University of Pune, India, in May 2012 with a double major in microbiology and zoology. She was then admitted to the Graduate Program in Oceanography in the Fall of 2012, when she joined Costa Vetriani’s Deep-Sea Microbiology Lab. Since then Sushmita has been working on...

Outstanding Senior Award 2016

Kelli Mullane joined Costa Vetriani’s Deep-Sea Microbiology Lab in the spring of 2015 and she is currently completing her George H. Cook honors thesis. Kelli has been working on various aspects of the microbiology of marine geothermal environments, from the production of quorum-sensing signals by deep-sea bacteria to the isolation...

DMCS Distinguished Seminar Speaker 2016

Dr. Rick Spinrad, Chief Scientist, NOAA Title: Making Ocean Science Matter: Life on the Edge of Oceanography and Policy Bio: Among his accomplishments, Dr. Spinrad was a co-lead of the White House Committee that developed the nation’s first set of ocean research priorities and oversaw the revamping of NOAA’s research...