POMP is excited to announce that four new Early Career Researchers have joined our team – Maya Dalby, Sina Müller, Guillaume Blais and Camille Poitrimol. Our new researchers will bring new approaches and expertise to the project’s ongoing efforts to understand the role of polar ecosystems in mitigating climate change.
Maya Dalby, a postdoctoral researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), will investigate how to detect biogeographical changes in the Southern Ocean and evaluate the consequences of these shifts on the biological carbon pump (particularly under anthropogenic pressure). Maya will also develop a high-resolution set-up for the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean.
Sina Müller joined POMP during her master’s at AWI and is now excited to further contribute to the project as a PhD student. Working primarily on WP3, Sina aims to improve ocean biogeochemical model performances to represent ecosystems and carbon pathway dynamics in the Arctic Ocean.
Guillaume Blais, a PhD student at Laval University, will conduct experimental work on benthic biodiversity and benthic activities, comparing marine glacier fjords and terrestrial glacier fjords. Guillaume will also work on new techniques to assess those data on-site.
Camille Poitrimol, also from Laval University, is a postdoctoral researcher and will focus on the study of benthic biodiversity in Arctic fjords.
As POMP continues to attract new talent, we remain dedicated to creating a dynamic and innovation-centred research environment. The future contributions of our new researchers are key to fill in existing knowledge gaps about polar ecosystems and create better management strategies to protect them.
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