Principal Investigator

Adam Camillo Martiny

Office: 3319 Croul Hall

Email: amartiny@uci.edu

Adam Martiny is a professor in both the Department of Earth System Science as well as Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He got his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark and subsequently did postdoctoral work at MIT with Sallie Chisholm. He has been a professor at UC Irvine since 2006. He is a coordinator the Bio-GO-SHIP project, a fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, The American Academy of Microbiology, and was the ASLO co-chair for the Ocean Sciences Meeting in 2024.

Current Members

Ashton Bandy
Ph.D. Candidate in Earth System Science
Email: abandy@uci.edu

Ashton is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Earth System Science. She has lived all over the world but always on the coast, and is trying to settle down in Southern California. She graduated from George Mason University in Virginia with a B.S. in Biology and then worked for the State of Hawaii doing aquatic natural resource management. Now her research is focused on the impact of pH variability on zooplankton in the Southern California Bight using metagenomic techniques. She is broadly interested in applied research that informs good marine policy. In her spare time she enjoys hanging out with friends at the beach, snorkeling, hiking, games of any kind, and snuggling her cats.

Adam Fagan
Ph.D. Candidate in Earth System Science
Email: afagan@uci.edu

Adam is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth System Science. He is leading a project to understand the regional variation in C:N:P ratios in the Atlantic, Pacific and now also Arctic Ocean. He has the lab record for total sea-days in a year (+100 in 2022).

Renne Harcourt
Ph.D. Student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Email: rhcourt@uci.edu

Renne is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. They are developing a method to quantify the elemental composition of individual plankton cells using ‘Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy’. This will enable them to understand how microbial community interactions affect the overall resource requirements of an ecosystem.

Amy Nuno
Ph.D. Student in Earth System Science
Email: amy.nuno@uci.edu

Amy is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth System Science. She graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics/Atmospheric and Oceanic Science from UCLA in 2020. She is interested in utilizing remote sensing products to quantify the spatio-temporal variability of nutrient stress in phytoplankton.

Undergraduate Students

Sarah Haas
Toan Lam
Kyle Jonathan Suen

Former Postdocs and Graduate Students

Skylar Gerace (Ph.D. 2025).
Megan Sullivan (Ph.D. 2024). Currently a postdoc at U. Rhode Island
Melissa Brock (Ph.D. 2024). Currently a postdoc at Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Stacy Suarez (Ph.D 2023). Currently working at Orange County Dept. of Public Health
Nicola Wiseman (Ph.D., 2022). Currently a postdoc at U. Bristol, UK.
Tatsuro Tanioka (Post Doc). Current working as modeler for Guy Carpenter.
Alyse Larkin (Post Doc). Currently a program officer at NOAA.
Lucas Ustick (Ph.D., 2022). Currently a postdoctoral researcher at EMBL, Germany
Allison Moreno (Ph.D., 2019). Professor at UC Santa Cruz
Catherine Garcia (Ph.D. 2019). Currently a postdoctoral researcher at U. Hawaii.
Alyssa Kent (Ph.D. 2017). Currently at CDC, Atlanta.
Stephen Hatosy (Ph.D. 2015). Currently
Cecilia Batmalle (Ph.D. 2014). Currently at Public Health Laboratories in Washington, D.C.
Renaud Berlemont (Post Doc). Currently Professor at CSU Long Beach
Pedro Flombaum (Post Doc). Professor at University of Buenos Aires, Director for CLIMA
Michael Morando (Post Doc). Currently postdoc at UC Santa Cruz.
Agathe Talarmin (Post Doc). Currently at , Abu Dhabi.
Eric Morrison (Post Doc). Currently at University of New Hampshire
Junhui Li (Post Doc). Currently at APC Microbiome, Ireland.
Zulema Gomez-Lunar (Post Doc). Currently at Instituto Politécnico Nacional, MX.
Gabin Piton (Post Doc). Currently at Eco&Sols INRAE Montpellier, France.