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Contact Information:<\/strong><\/p>\nhsosik@whoi.edu<\/a> \u00bb View the talk on TED<\/a><\/p>\n\t Ph.D. Oceanography, University of California, San Diego<\/a>, Scripps Institution of Oceaongraphy<\/a>, 1993<\/p>\n S.M. Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/a>, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering<\/a>, 1988<\/p>\n S.B. Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/a>, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering<\/a>, 1987<\/p>\n\t Heidi Sosik<\/strong> is a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where she has been on the faculty and staff since 1994, and currently holds Stanley W. Watson Chair for Excellence in Oceanography. A biological oceanographer and inventor, Sosik and her co-workers have developed automated underwater analyzers that dramatically enhance scientists\u2019 and resource managers\u2019 ability to study microscopic organisms that fuel ocean food chains, interact with Earth\u2019s climate, and sometimes produce harmful algal blooms that threaten ecosystem and human health.<\/p>\n Sosik serves as Director of WHOI\u2019s Center for Ocean, Marine, and Seafloor Observing Systems, Chief Scientist of the Martha\u2019s Vineyard Coastal Observatory, and lead investigator for the Northeast US Shelf Long Term Ecological Research program. She is active in many national and international roles including associate editor for leading journals, service on strategic planning and scientific steering committees, and elected officer of the American Geophysical Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr.\u00a0Heidi Sosik Senior Scientist Biology Department Contact Information: hsosik@whoi.edu Building:\u00a0Redfield 3-16 Work: 508-289-2311 Fax: 508-457-2134 Mailing Address: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 266 Woods Hole Rd, MS#32 Woods Hole, MA 02543 Research Interests Phytoplankton ecology and photophysiology Physical forcing and regulation of phytoplankton biomass and production Modeling of marine primary production Modeling of phytoplankton physiology and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hsosik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hsosik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hsosik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hsosik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hsosik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hsosik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hsosik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hsosik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBuilding:\u00a0Redfield 3-16
\nWork: 508-289-2311
\nFax: 508-457-2134\nMailing Address:<\/strong>
\nWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution
\n266 Woods Hole Rd, MS#32
\nWoods Hole, MA 02543\n\tResearch Interests<\/h3>\n
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Awards<\/h3>\nFellow of The Oceanography Society, 2018.
\nThe Stanley W. Watson Chair for Excellence in Oceanography, 2017.
\nCINAR Fellowship in Quantitative Fisheries and Ecosystem Science, 2016.
\nArons Award for Excellence in Teaching, Advising and Mentoring, 2015.
\nWHOI Senior Scientist Leadership Prize, 2013.
\nNASA Agency Honor Award \/ Group Achievement, ICESCAPE Team, 2012.
\nWHOI Coastal Ocean Institute \/ Ocean Life Institute Fellow, 2003.
\nONR Young Investigator Program Award, 1997.
\nPresidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 1996.
\nNASA New Investigator Program Award, 1996.
\nDOE Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1994.
\nWho\u2019s Who Among Students in AmericanUniversities and Colleges, 1994.
\nWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution Postdoctoral Scholar Award, 1993.
\nONR Student Oceanography Award, 1993.
\nNASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Award, 1991.
\nNSF Graduate Fellowship, 1988.
\nWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summer Student Fellowship, 1986.
\nSea Grant Fellowship for Undergraduate Research, 1986.
\nNational Merit Scholar, 1983.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDownload CV\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\tNews Highlight<\/h3>\n
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\nTED Speaker \u2013 Heidi Sosik: Ocean Scientist, Inventor, Explorer<\/strong>
\nAs one of the first ideas of The Audacious Project, TED\u2019s new initiative to inspire global change, Heidi Sosik shares a plan to investigate the the ocean twilight zone\nEducation<\/h3>\n
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