Congratulations, Dr. Lees!

After more than five years in the Marine Biodiversity Lab as a PhD student and postdoctoral scholar, Dr. Lauren Lees has departed to pursue her next adventure as a USC Sea Grant Knauss Fellow working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland. We have appreciated her enthusiasm, help with fieldwork, expertise on nutrient uptake, and so much more! Her work here was groundbreaking, taking an unprecedented molecular approach to understand effects of field experimental manipulations of temperature, nutrients, and herbivores on microbial communities. She also did amazing work highlighting how kelps use regenerated nitrogen forms such as ammonium and urea. We wish her fair winds and following seas!