Warm congratulations to CBIOMES principal investigator Ginger Armbrust on this recently announced honor.
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Ginger Armbrust’s research focuses on marine phytoplankton, particularly marine diatoms. She has pioneered the use of environmental genomics and transcriptomics, combined with metabolomics, to understand how natural diatom communities are shaped by the environment and by their interactions with other microbes. Most recently, she has identified chemical signals that form the basis of cross-kingdom communication. Her group developed SeaFlow – ship-board instrumentation that now permits the fine-scale continuous mapping of distributions, growth rates, and loss rates of different groups of phytoplankton. Most recently, as part of CBIOMES, she has overseen the development of the Simons Collaborative Marine Atlas Project (CMAP) an open database that merges publicly available datasets from satellites and sensors with datasets being generated by other oceanographic research initiatives supported by the Simons Foundation.
Dr. Armbrust is the director of and a professor in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington. She received her AB from Stanford University in 1980 and her PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1990. She carried out postdoctoral research training at Washington University before joining the faculty at the University of Washington in 1996. She serves as co-director of the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE), leading the SCOPE Gradients project. and is a principal investigator for CBIOMES.
Armbrust has previously been honered as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and as a member of the Washington State Academy of Science.
AGU will formally acknowledge and celebrate its 54 new Fellows for their “exceptional achievements and visionary leadership” during a ceremony at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2022.
Story image: Ginger Armbrust – photo courtesy the Simons Foundation