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Psychotherapy for Phytoplankton

Psychotherapy for Phytoplankton

Tue September 13th, 2011
Erin Bertrand for Oceanus/ The WHOI Newsletter

For her Ph.D. research in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, Erin Bertrand has studied how marine phytoplankton get, use, and compete for nutrients in the ocean. She used a new approach for marine geochemistry: proteomics. (Photo by Mak Saito, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Graduate student Erin Bertrand defended her Ph.D. dissertation this week before an advisory committee of scientists. In an article for non-scientists, she explains her research on how essential phytoplankton in the ocean struggle to get enough essential nutrients. Read more in this Oceanus Magazine article.

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