Rebecca Briggs
Graduate Student
Department of Oceanography,
University of Hawaii
Marine Science Building
1000 Pope Road, Rm. 513
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (808) 956-2442
Education
- BS Chemistry and Chemical Oceanography, University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI)
Current research
GeoChemical Oceanography - My research will focus on the coupled Fe/P cycling in He’eia fishpond and analyze how dynamic surficial sediment oxygen concentrations can alter Fe and P cycles on both seasonal and diurnal time scales.
Faculty advisor
Kathleen Ruttenberg
Additional research experience
- Undergraduate research analyst on data from the Ocean Drilling Program (2001)
- Undergraduate research assessing trends in contaminant inputs and cultural eutrophication in Cape Cod National Seashore; focusing particularly on organic contaminates and trace metals (2002-2003)
- Research assistant on the Kuroshio Extension System Study deployment cruise (2004)
- Field researcher for the Maui Harmful Algal Bloom Study (2006)
Graduate awards
- NSF East Asia Summer Pacific Institute (EAPSI) recipient (Summer 2005) to conduct independent research at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba Japan.
- Recipient of the 2006 L. Stephen Lau Scholarship in Water Resources
Graduate Teaching Experience
- OCN401 BioGeoChemisty Teaching Assistant (Fall 2004)
- OCN 201 Introduction to Oceanography Teaching Assistant (Spring 2005)
- OCN633 BioGeoChemical Oceanographic Lab Methods Teaching Assistant (Fall 2005)
- OCN623 Chemical Oceanography Teaching Assistant (Spring 2006)
Education and Leadership Programs
- NaKamaKai Graduate Student Oceanography Group- President (2005-2006) Student liaison at faculty and division meetings and University representative for Oceanography Graduate students
- Member of search committee to fill vacant Oceanography faculty position (2005-2006)
- Pacific Symposium for Science and Sustainability (2005)-Science Moderator
- School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology Open House (2005)-Team Leader
- National Ocean Science Bowl, Honolulu HI (2005)-Science Moderator
- National Ocean Science Bowl, Narragansett RI (2004)-Assistant Regional Coordinator
- Census of Marine Life’s Investigating Marine Life (2003)-Research specialist and managed scientific website content
- Discovery of Sounds in the Sea Sea Educational Website (2002)-Research specialist and managed scientific website content
- National Ocean Sciences Bowl, Narragansett RI (2000-2003)-Volunteer
- Discovery of Estuarine Environments Educational Website (2000)-Research specialist and managed scientific website content