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Sampling the sea surface microlayer from a kayak. Photo credit: Ben Van Mooy

Dr. Alina M. Ebling

Postdoctoral Investigator
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry

Contact Information:
Work: 508-289-2627
aebling@whoi.edu
Building: Fye

Mailing Address:
266 Woods Hole Road, MS #04
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Research Interests

I am mainly interested in the biogeochemical cycling of phosphorus and trace metals. While my Ph.D. research focused on trace element cycling between the atmosphere and ocean, I have always been interested in nutrient utilization by planktonic communities. As the newest member of the Van Mooy Lab here at WHOI, my main focus is to study phosphorus cycling in surface waters, specifically looking at the reduction of phosphate to low molecular weight phosphonate compounds. I am also interested in expanding my Ph.D. research to studying the phosphorus cycle across the air-sea interface, otherwise known as the sea surface microlayer.

Selected Publications

Westrich, J.R., A.M. Ebling, J.L. Joyner, K.M. Kemp, D.W. Griffin, W.M. Landing, and E.K. Lipp, 2016. Vibrio bacteria growth response to Saharan dust nutrients. PNAS: 113, 5964-5969.

Ebling, A.M. and W.M Landing, 2015. Sampling and analysis of the sea surface microlayer for dissolved and particulate trace elements. Marine Chemistry: 177, 134-143.

Education

Ph.D.: Chemical Oceanography. 2017. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.

B.S.: Chemistry, Environmental Science. 2009. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA, USA.

Biography

I took chemistry and environmental science my junior year of high school, both of which I loved. In 2005, I started the Environmental Science program at Kutztown Unversity where I was able to focus my degree on chemistry, but still receive a broad scientific education. During the summer of 2008, I was an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) intern at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science CBL laboratory where my mentor, Dr. Johan Schijf, opened my eyes to marine science and trace elements. From there, I was accepted into the Florida State University's Oceanography program working on trace elements under the supervision of Dr. William Landing. In April 2017, I was fortunate enough to start a postdoc position here at WHOI working for Dr. Benjamin Van Mooy looking at phosphorus cycling in the surface ocean.