Pearson Lab - People

Ann Pearson

Courses taught:
EPS 107: Environmental Geochemistry
EPS 137: Biogeochemistry
EPS 237: Advanced Biogeochemistry
EPS 242: Biogeochemistry of Light Stable Isotopes
Freshman Seminar 22p: Science in the Public Eye

Staff

Susie Carter
Laboratory Manager

Email: sjcarter@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 384-9798

Patricia Fuentes-Cross
Administrator

Email: fuentes@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-3636

Mandy Tam
Research Assistant

Email: mtam@mit.edu

Phone: (617) 384-9798

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dave Nelson
Postdoctoral Fellow,
U. of Illinois, and Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of EPS, Harvard University

Email: dmnelson@life.uiuc.edu

Dave's web page

Project: 13C analysis of grass pollen using moving wire interface on mass spectrometer.

Jill Mikucki
Office of Polar Programs Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: jmikucki@fas.harvard.edu

Project: Microbial ecology of subglacial systems; using isotopic geochemistry to explore the links between subglacial chemistry and in situ microbial diversity and energetics.

Felisa Wolfe-Simon
NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Felisa's CV

Email: wolfe@fas.harvard.edu

Graduate Students

Suni Shah
Graduate Student,
6th Year

Email: shah@fas.harvard.edu

Suni's CV (.pdf)

Projects: Metabolic “fingerprinting” of uncultivable microbes: Insights from organism-specific RNA analysis. Developing methods for coupled d13C and d15N analysis of nucleic acids.

Meytal Budin Higgins
Graduate Student,
5th Year

Email: budin@fas.harvard.edu

Projects: Making compound-specific measurements of nitrogen isotopes in organic matter from ocean sediment and rock in order to constrain the paleo nitrogen cycle; how changes in ocean chemistry, specifically nutrient availability and redox conditions, affect microbial marine ecosystems and ocean productivity.

Hilary Close
Graduate Student,
2nd Year

Email: hclose@fas.harvard.edu

Yundan Pi
Graduate Student, 1st Year

Email: yundanpi@fas.harvard.edu

Affiliated Graduate Students

Wil Leavitt
Graduate Student, Girguis Lab

Email: wleavitt@fas.harvard.edu

Undergraduates

Alexa Weingarden
Thesis Student

Email: aweingar@fas.harvard.edu

Gone, but not forgotten

	Anitra Ingalls Postdoctoral Fellow 2003-2004 Present position: Assistant Professor, University of Washington School of Oceanography Email: aingalls@u.washington.edu Anitra's lab page New home page			Orit Sivan Postdoctoral Fellow, Schrag Lab, 2003-2006 Present position: Lecturer, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel Email: oritsi@bgu.ac.il

	Tanja Bosak Microbial Sciences Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2007 Present position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: tbosak@gmail.com			Kim Kraunz Postdoctoral Fellow Email: kim.kraunz@gmail.com

	Jochen Brocks Junior Fellow, Dept. of OEB, 2001-2004 Present position: QE2 Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University Jochen's new home page Email: jochen.brocks@anu.edu.au			Woody Fischer Ph.D. 2007, Knoll Lab Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow in Geobiology, Caltech Email: wfischer@caltech.edu

	Robin Kodner Ph.D. 2007, Knoll Lab Robin's page Email: robinkodner@post.harvard.edu			Meredith Fisher Ph.D. 2007, Cavanaugh Lab Email: mfisher@oeb.harvard.edu

	Sarah Flood Page Research Technician, 2005-2006 Present position: Graduate Student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder Email: sarah.floodpage@colorado.edu			Jon Husson Undergraduate Thesis Student, 2006-2007 Email: husson@fas.harvard.edu

	Anne Dekas Undergraduate Thesis Student, 2003-2004 Present position: Graduate Student in Geobiology, Caltech Email: dekas@caltech.edu			Lauren Wolchok Undergraduate Thesis Student, 2006-2007 Email: wolchok@fas.harvard.edu