Sarah Laperriere

Maryland Sea Grant Research Fellowship

Fellowship Institution:

Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Related Project

R/EH-16

Advisor:

Alyson Santoro

Start Year:

2014

Sarah Laperriere is a Ph.D. student in the joint Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences (MEES) Graduate Program at the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science working with Dr. Alyson Santoro. Her research focuses on nitrous oxide (N₂O) dynamics in the Chesapeake Bay. N₂O can be produced by microbes and is a potent greenhouse gas. Sarah received a B.S. in biology and B.A. in mathematics from Providence College in 2011. More recently, Sarah worked at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. In 2012-13, she had the opportunity to work at Palmer Station in Antarctica, where she conducted field research in microbial ecology and biogeochemistry for the Palmer Station Long Term Ecological Research Project. While in Antarctica, Sarah enjoyed sampling among swimming penguins and breaching humpback whales.

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