Congratulations to Travis Miles and Kim Thamatrakoln who are being promoted to Associate Professors and granted tenure. They have worked so hard and are important to our marine nerd family, so we celebrate their well deserved success! Travis’s research is focused on processes that are associated with physical ocean boundaries, including ocean interactions with the atmosphere above, the seafloor below, the land and the sea, and between the different water layers within the ocean interior itself. External scientists pronounced his work is the wave of the future and we are excited he is part of our team. Kim is a world leader and an extremely creative and collaborative researcher who blends functional genomics, transcriptomic and biochemical approaches with algal ecophysiology, virology, biophysics, and molecular genetics in order to address fundamental aspects of microbial ecology, biological-chemical interactions, biomineralization, molecular ecophysiology, and biogeochemistry of marine phytoplankton. She has become an indispensable resource to our students and speaking for myself look forward to learning from her great science for years to come!! What great news for Friday!
