In honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science and Black History Month, Data Scientist Matt Jones highlighted some pioneering scientists whose legacies are especially important to the researchers and students here in DEEPS.

When DEEPS postdoctoral geochemist Gavin Piccione received a notification of possible lead pollution in his area, it inspired the development of the Urban Water Pollution Project (UWPP), a collaborative research initiative to understand heavy metal pollution in the Moshassuck and Woonasquatucket watersheds in Providence. “The goal and the strategy is the more you know, the more power and more connection to this place you have,” Piccione said.

In a recent perspective paper, Assistant Professor Mara Freilich, former posdoc Lilly Dove, and graduate student Katarina Merk present observational and model-based evidence for ocean eddy processes that lead to small-scale heterogeneity in the upper mesopelagic ocean.