Traci
Assumption College:
BA Biology 
University of Rhode Island:
Currently a Ph.D. student studying the genetic diversity of the Cyanobacteria found in various region’s of the world’s ocean.
University of Maine, Orono:
Undergraduate
University of Rhode Island:
Graduate Student
Responsibility on-board:
Investigating mechanisms, on a molecular level, utilized by phytoplankton to cope with iron
stress
Collecting
samples
Filtering
Concentrating
Responsibility on-board:
Filtering water samples to concentrate cells for use in molecular studies, isolating single organisms from the same samples, and filtering for chlorophyll analysis
