Congratulations Dr. Burke and Dr. Noble

Last Tuesday Andrea Burke (MIT/WHOI JP) defended her thesis "Constraining circulation changes through the last deglaciation with dynamic tracers: Insights from deep-sea coral radiocarbon and sedimentary 231Pa/230Th". You may remember Andrea from the cruise blog http://antarcticcorals.blogspot.com/ in which she featured earlier this year. Andrea's advisor was Laura Robinson at WHOI.

Last Thursday Abigail Noble (MIT/WHOI JP) defended her thesis "Influences on the oceanic biogeochemical cycling of the hybrid-type metals: Cobalt, iron and manganese". Her advisor was Mak Saito at WHOI. After working as a postdoc. for Mak for ~ 2-3 months finishing up some projects later this fall, she will be moving up to Cambridge to start a postdoc. with Ed Boyle in January, looking at lead concentrations and lead isotopes in the North Atlantic.