Post-Doctoral Associates

Bong Jae Chung

Research Interests:

Sediment Transport (Alberto Scotti lab )

• Location: 348 Chapman Hall
• Web Page:
  Email: bjchung@email.unc.edu

   Trond Kristiansen

Research Interests:

Primary research interest is the use of individual based models to explore and understand various mechanisms that determine successful growth and survival through the early pelagic life stages of fish.  Such models make it possible to model larval fish feeding, growth, behavior, and survival for various environmental settings at the spawning and nursery grounds along the coast of northern Norway and at Georges Bank on the eastern coast of the United States.

Location: 328 Chapman Hall

• Telephone: 919-647-9201
  
• Email: trond@unc.edu

Jennifer Biddle

Research Interests:

Primary research interest is the microbiology of marine sediments and examination of microbes that exist in deep sediments in the Peru Margin, Gulf of Mexico and Guaymas Basin. Specific interest in diversity of the subsurface and will examine if rare archaeal phylotypes exist in the sediments.

• Location: 432 Chapman Hall
• Telephone: 919-843-1242
• Email: jfbiddle@email.unc.edu

Laura Lapham

Visiting Post Doctoral Scholar from Florida State University, working with Dr. Jeff Chanton and Dr. Christopher Martens

Research Interests:

Methane hydrates are ice-like solids of methane gas enclosed in a lattice of water molecules.  They form under conditions of high pressure and low temperature which are found naturally in continental slope sediments and arctic permafrost.  Current estimates of ~10⁹ Tg of methane carbon suggests the hydrate reservoir to be the largest known on Earth.  Therefore, they are an important part of the global methane cycle and processes controlling their stability need to be understood.  My primary research interest is to understand how methane cycles within the hydrate reservoirs found near the sediment water interface in oceanic sediments.  In particular, I seek to understand controls on hydrate dissolution from both physical and biogeochemical processes.

Location: 446 Chapman Hall

• Telephone: 919-843-3473
  
• Email: llapham@unc.edu

  Kai Ziervogel

Research Interests:

Microbial degradation of particulate organic carbon (POC) and nitrogen (PON) in artificial aggregates including diatoms and mineral particles, in natural water samples and in fluffy layer material (phytodetritus aggregates in the sediment-water interface). Fluorescently-labeled macromolecules as organic substrates are used to measure microbial hydrolysis rates.

• Location: 448 Chapman Hall
• Telephone: 919-843-2464
• Email: ziervoge@email.unc.edu

Michael Wetz

Research Interests:

H.W. Paerl lab

• Location: Institute of Marine Sciences
  
• Telephone: 252-726-6841 ext.176
  
• Web Page:
  
• Email: wetz@email.unc.edu