Yang’s paper on “Metal Release from Manganese Nodules in Anoxic Seawater and Implications for Deep-Sea Mining Dewatering Operations” was recently published open access at ES&T Water!

Cover article written by journalist Sofia Moutinho, who embedded on our Antarctic research expedition to the Amundsen Sea, is out today!

Confined at Sea at the End of the World

Former student Yang Xiang to start a faculty position at the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University next year.  Congratulations Yang! We’re so proud of you!!

Diurnal Oxidation for Manganese Minerals in the Arctic Ocean

https://honors.ucsc.edu/koretscholars/recent-koret-scholars.html

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL094805

The UCSC Graduate Division approved Yang Xiang’s PhD Dissertation today!! He is now no longer merely Mr. Xiang, but is now the esteemed Dr. Xiang!  In other great news, the aforementioned esteemed Dr. Xiang was recently selected as one of the 2021 CICOES Postdoctoral Fellows, and will be going off to the University of Washington in October 2021 to start a postdoc with Paul Quay, Rolf Sonnerup, and Andrea Fassbender.  Double yay for Dr. Xiang!!

Allison is on fire this week! She learned that she is this year’s winner of the 2020-21 Future Leaders in Coastal Science Award from the UCSC Physical and Biological Sciences Division.  Allison will work with UCSC Environmental Science major Jenna Martinez on the interaction of cadmium geochemistry and food web dynamics in the California Current. Yay Allison and Jenna!