The Team

The oceans are too big to work alone. Over the last few years, the lab has grown. Below, you can see who's working in the lab and how you can connect with them.

Who are we?
Well, first it was just me, Nick Hawco. I started at UHM in January 2020 and have been working hard to get the lab ready for others to join in and collaborate.
I also teach OCN201: Science of the Sea and OCN636: Aquatic Chemistry.
Since then the lab has grown. Find out who we all are below...

Nick Hawco

Lab Gecko

(RIP)

Graduate Students

Focus: The Iron cycle on Hawaii Ocean timeseries cruises

Kalena Genesis

Focus: Deep fluxes of trace elements in subtropical gyres

Naomi Rohrbaugh

Focus: coastal metal inputs and coral health

Postdoctoral Researchers

Nicole Travis

Focus: Prochlorococcus nutrient transporters

Focus: phytoplankton metal contents by single-cell ICPMS

Focus: Carbon and trace metal fluxes in oligotrophic gyres!

Daniela König

Focus: Fe isotope modelling in the South Pacific

Everyone Else

Ema Jessen

Undergraduate Researcher

Senior Thesis: Zn speciation in the Southern Ocean

Micah Soriano

Undergraduate Researcher

Senior Thesis: Vitamin B12 limitation of trace metal use efficiency in a Southern Ocean diatom

Carlo van Dijken

Technician

(Fmr. Undergrad Researcher)

Ruby Helmuth

Undergraduate Researcher

Senior Thesis: Influence of Fireworks on Trace Metal Concentrations in Coastal Waters

Emily Beseris

Undergraduate Researcher

Senior Thesis: Mn limitation in the Southern Ocean from the last interglacial cycle

Past Lab Members

Tatiana Gamez (2023 - 2024)

Steph Briones (2021 - 2024)

Megha Rudresh (2022 - 2024)

Rhea Foreman (2021 - 2023)

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