Natalie showing Nicole growth rate data collected under excess Zn conditions at the 2025 ASLO meeting. Nicole is shocked at the results :O

Claire giving a stellar oral presentation about Southern Ocean mixotrophs at the 2025 Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Charlotte, NC

OCB meta-eukomics hackathon in Savannah GA

SkIO intern Felipe Quintana presents his summer projects at the Sapelo Summer Symposium. Summer 2024

Lab! Summer 2024

Adrian Marchetti visits SkIO! April 2024

Lucy Quirk successfully defends her MS thesis!! March 2024.

Lucy presenting her MS research during her defense. March 2024. Photo by Jay Brandes

Claire taking a mixotrophy break during a research cruise by enjoying a joyride off of the Azores Islands. Summer 2023

Cohen Lab July 2023! Top row: MS student Lucy Quirk, MS student Mallory Mintz, Ph.D student Claire Cook. Bottom row: Natalie, Savannah State University REU student Lavon Young, SkIO summer intern Neha Shah

Daily estuary sampling over the summer months! Mallory collects dissolved oxygen, salinity, temperature, turbidity, pH, and chlorophyll a fluorescence with a YSI Sonde. Summer 2023

Mallory discusses the drivers of harmful algal blooms, their societal impact, and her role up close and personal with them to a very curious audience during the Marine Extension & GA Sea Grant "Saltwater Science Speaker Series". July 2023

Mallory introduces plankton to summer campers at Marine Extension & Georgia Sea Grant. Summer 2023

Lucy presents her MS research at the ASLO conference in Mallorca, Spain! June 2023

Claire samples for mixotrophy in the California Current System on PUPCYCLE 2! June 2023

Outdoor cubitainer team

Flow cytometer breaks, chaos ensues :( The amazing crew fixed it! Photo credit: Miriam Sutton

Claire monitoring CTD data onboard the RV Sally Ride

UGA Carpentries workshop led by Claire and Lucy at Skidaway Institute. May 2023

Nicole Millette visits SkIO to set up mixotroph ingestion experiments with Claire! All smiles in the clean room.

Skidaway Island Marine Science Day 2022: Claire and Lucy explaining the importance of phytoplankton to visitors on the RV Savannah

Skidaway Island Marine Science Day 2022

Lab group Summer 2022

Testing a mixotrophy method with SkIO interns onboard the RV Savannah - June 2022

Aki and John firing niskins

Everyone busy processing samples in the ship lab :)

Grad student retention event (retreat) May 2022! Photo from Sara Rivero Calle

Nutrient amendment incubations incubating on deck!

Lucy and Natalie taking a mini break to be seasick during trace metal clean sampling pump setup as Kyle and Morgan recover the CTD :')

CTD deployment! Photo from Sara Rivero Calle

Sara and Kyle testing out a new radiometry instrument

Sara is very excited to filter lots of seawater

Lucy and Arianna admiring the bubble they created

Arianna Krinos helps out with incubation experiments

The second trace metal clean bubble ever built on the RV Savannah!

Masud tries on the immersion suit as Kyle is entertained

RV Savannah cruise in March 2022!

Best part about being at sea: endless sunrises and sunsets

Masud and Kadir assisting with the CTD!

Masud, Lucy and Rachel filtering seawater in the lab

Flow through incubator on deck

Setting up nutrient treatments

Lucy filling cubitainers! Clean seawater is pumped directly from the seawater surface into the bubble sink

Bubble construction - Lucy is a pro!

Morgan and Natalie attaching the trace metal clean hose weighted down with vinyl-coated dive weights to a synthetic rope that is lowered to ~10m. The other of the hose is attached to a teflon diaphragm pump. Photo by Sara Rivero-Calle

Setting up a trace metal clean surface pumping system!

Sara seamlessly models the immersion suit

A short research cruise in Sept. 2021 to the South Atlantic Bight to assess for iron stress in phytoplankton communities. A lovely science crew :)

Lab group July 2021!

Heading out to the South Atlantic Bight on the R/V Savannah!

Trace metal clean sampling rosette, sans niskins

June 2019 North Atlantic cruise from BATS to Woods Hole

Dropping buckets off the side of the ship to figure out what in the world those beautiful shimmers were in the surface ocean. We figured it out: they were a type of zooplankton called sea sapphires!

A group chat onboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer after deploying Clio

Clio being lowered into the ocean on the A-frame - a delicate operation led by the BATS/Clio teams

Clio deployed and getting ready to sample seawater vertically in the water column, completely untethered from the ship!

Clio!

June 2019 BATS scientists and crew on the R/V Atlantic Explorer after the first successful section was completed by the new AUV Clio (yellow refrigerator-looking robot in the back)

R/V Atlantis docked in San Juan following a cruise across the North Atlantic

PEP summer class cruise onboard the SSV Corwith Cramer in Vineyard Sound!

Welcoming the Tara in Lorient home after the two year Tara Pacific journey

Woods Hole, MA

Exploring Moorea after the PMT Geotraces cruise with Saito lab member, Becca Chmiel

Catching some beautiful views after the 2017 ASLO conference in Hawaii

2017 "Near Shores and Oceans" Duke TIP class on a field trip to a nearby barrier island

Duke TIP participant in the 2017 Near Shores and Oceans summer course

The 2015 IRNBRU crew onboard the R/V Melville off the coast of California

The CCGS John P. Tully as seen by Zodiac raft

The Canadian Coast Guard Ship John P. Tully docked in Victoria before the June Line P cruise

Attaching a sampling system to the winch line for pumping up trace metal clean surface seawater, on the June 2015 Line P cruise in the Northeast Pacific Ocean

2014 Galapagos cruise onboard the National Park vessel, Guadalupe River

Carly Moreno and Natalie sampling seawater in the Galapagos

Exploring Maui after the Ocean Sciences Conference in Honolulu!

Science crew of DolMicrobe6 on the R/V Savannah! Photo credit: Sara Rivero-Calle

Adam Greer deep in thought with the CTD

June 2019 North Atlantic cruise from BATS to Woods Hole

A few snapshots from field work, outreach & teaching