Pavia Lab at UW

Sea-ice in the Arctic has declined about 40% over the past 40 years, as monitored by satellite-based techniques. Open questions still exist about how fast the Arctic will reach ice-free conditions, seasonally and annually, in the not-so-distant future as humans continue to warm our planet. This necessitates a deeper understanding of the processes that dictate changes in Arctic sea-ice coverage, and how this ice coverage responds to a shifting climate. Along with collaborators at UMass Boston (Jesse Farmer), the USGS…

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After four somewhat surreal, mostly fantastic years in Los Angeles as a postdoc at Caltech, I’m moving back to my hometown of Seattle to start as an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Oceanography in January 2024. As a kid, I was a huge UW sports fan. I remember one of my elementary school student teachers was a Pac-10 champion gymnast, and I went to watch the UW gymnastics team. I remembering listening to the UW softball…

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On October 7th I defended my Ph.D. at Lamont-Doherty. If you want to devote an hour to learning about the marine chemistry of thorium and protactinium from me, you can watch a video recording of my defense talk, courtesy of Phil Fitzpatrick and the excellent LDEO IT team. If you want to devote more than an hour to learning about the marine chemistry of thorium and protactinium from me, you can read my thesis, “Biogeochemical Studies of the South Pacific…

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