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Dr. Annette Frese Govindarajan (she/her)

Principal Investigator

Research Interests - zooplankton diversity, ecology and evolution; mesopelagic ecology, eDNA, cnidarian systematics and phylogeography

Contact Information:
Work: 508-289-3308
afrese@whoi.edu
Building: Redfield 104

Mailing Address:
266 Woods Hole Road, MS #33
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Education

Academic profiles

 

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Dr. Nina Yang

Postdoctoral Investigator

Research interests: biological oceanography, biogeochemical cycling, biodiversity, environmental ‘omics, climate change, and ocean policy

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Kaiah Callahan

Research Assistant I

Research Interests: ocean biodiversity, marine biogeochemistry, microbial ecology, genomics, climate change

 

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Pam Polloni

Volunteer

Curator for MBL-WHOI Library Herbarium

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Luke McCartin

Guest Student (Graduate)

PhD student at Lehigh University

Research Interests: Deep sea biology and environmental DNA

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Helena McMonagle (she/her)

Guest Student (Graduate)

PhD student at the University of Washington

Research Interests: Fish ecology, ecological modeling, biogeochemistry, science communication

Engineering team members

Ben Weiss, Engineer II

Kaitlyn Tradd, Research Engineer

Fred Marin, Engineering Assistant III

 

 

Lab Alumni

Miranda Holland, Research Assistant II, 2023, currently a research assistant at AVAST (WHOI)

John Selby, Research Assistant II, 2023, currently a PhD student at University of Rhode Island

Kimberly Henderson, Guest Student, 2023, currently an undergraduate student at Tuskegee University

Jessica Barrow, Guest Student, 2022, currently an undergraduate student at Tuskegee University

Evan Morrison, Research Assistant II, 2022

Dr. Elizabeth Andruszkiewicz Allan, Postdoctoral Investigator (2019-2020), Guest Investigator (2021 - present), now Chief Scientist at the eDNA Collaborative

Erin Frates, Research Assistant, 2020-2021, currently a PhD student at Boston University

Katie Pell, Guest Student, 2020, currently an undergraduate at Colorado College

Rene Francolini, Research Assistant 2018-2020, currently a graduate student at the University of Maine

Sarah Stover, Guest Student, 2019, and Research Assistant 2022-2023, currently a research assistant in the Stegeman/Goldstone laboratory