HEIDI M. SOSIK
Associate Scientist
Biology Department, MS 32
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1049
508-289-2311
S.B. (Civil Engineering, Water Resources
and Environmental Engineering) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987.
S.M. (Civil Engineering, Water Resources
and Environmental Engineering) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988.
Ph.D. (Oceanography) University
of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1993, "Phytoplankton
Photophysiology and Optical Modeling of Primary Production: Laboratory
Results and Field Studies in the California Current System".
Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, 1994-present.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution, 1993-1996.
Graduate Research Fellow, Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, 1988-1993.
Graduate Research Assistant, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1987-1988.
Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1986-1987.
HONORS AND AWARDS
ONR Young Investigator Program Award,
1997.
Presidential Early Career Award
for Scientists and Engineers, 1996.
NASA New Investigator Program Award,
1996.
DOE Global Change Distinguished
Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1994.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Postdoctoral Scholar Award, 1993.
Who’s Who Among Students in American
Universities and Colleges, 1994.
ONR Student Oceanography Award,
1993.
NASA Graduate Student Researchers
Program Award, 1991.
NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1988.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Summer Student Fellowship, 1986.
Sea Grant Fellowship for Undergraduate
Research, 1986.
National Merit Scholar, 1983.
OCEANOGRAPHIC CRUISES
R/V Gyre, Woods Hole, MA to Dakar,
Senegal, September 1986.
R/V Oceanus, Sargasso Sea, June
1987.
R/V New Horizon, Ocean Optics Closure,
August 23 - 28, 1990.
R/V Sproul, Southern California,
August 27 - 29, 1991.
R/V New Horizon, CalCOFI 9110, September
28 - October 12, 1991.
R/V David Starr Jordan, CalCOFI
9202, January 28 - February 13, 1992.
R/V David Starr Jordan, Pre-FORAGE
9203, March 12 - April 7, 1992.
R/V Trepang, Black Sea, June 7-23,
1996
R/V Seward Johnson, Coastal Mixing
and Optics Experiment, August 17 - September 7, 1996.
R/V Oceanus, Coastal Mixing and
Optics Experiment, January 5-8, 1997.
R/V Knorr, Coastal Mixing and Optics
Experiments, April 23 - May 13, 1997.
R/V Endeavor, GLOBEC Gulf of Maine,
October 8 - 17, 1997.
R/V Revelle, JGOFS Southern Ocean
Process II, February 13 - March 19, 1998.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Geophysical Union
American Society of Limnology and
Oceanography
The Oceanography Society
Phycological Society of America
SPIE, International Society for
Optical Engineering
PUBLICATIONS
Sosik, H. M., S. W. Chisholm and R. J. Olson. 1989. Chlorophyll fluorescence from single cells: Interpretation of flow cytometric signals. Limnol. Oceanogr. 34: 1749-1761.
Sosik, H. M. and B. G. Mitchell. 1991. Absorption, fluorescence and quantum yield for growth in nitrogen-limited Dunaliella tertiolecta. Limnol. Oceanogr. 36: 910-921.
Sosik, H. M. and B. G. Mitchell. 1994. Effects of temperature on growth and light absorption in Dunaliella tertiolecta. J. Phycol. 30: 833-840.
Sosik, H. M. and B. G. Mitchell. 1995. Light absorption by phytoplankton, photosynthetic pigments and detritus in the California Current System. Deep Sea-Res. 42: 1717-1748.
Sosik, H. M. 1995. The role of phytoplankton photophysiological variability in optical modeling of marine primary production. In: Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Photosynthesis and Remote Sensing, G. Guyot (ed.), EARSeL, pp. 251-259.
Sosik, H. M. 1996. Bio-optical modeling of primary production: Consequences of variability in quantum yield and specific absorption. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 143: 225-238.
Olson, R. J., A. M. Chekalyuk and H. M. Sosik. 1996. Phytoplankton photosynthetic characteristics from fluorescence induction assays of individual cells. Limnol. Oceanogr. 41: 1253-1263.
RECENT ABSTRACTS
Sosik, H. M. 1995. Sources of variability in estimates of primary production from bio-optical models. Abstract, TOS Fourth Scientific Meeting.
Olson, R. J., A. M. Chekalyuk, H. M. Sosik and M. Yu. Gorbunov. 1995. Pump-during-probe microfluorometry: A new technique for measurements of photosynthesis-related parameters of individual phytoplankton cells. Abstract, TOS Fourth Scientific Meeting.
Olson, R. J., A. M. Chekalyuk, H. M. Sosik and M. Yu. Gorbunov. 1995. Pump-during-probe technique for measuring photosynthetic characteristics of individual algal cells using flow cytometry and microfluorometry. Extended abstract, 10th International Congress of Photosynthesis, Montpellier, France.
R. J. Olson, H. M. Sosik and A. M Chekalyuk. 1996. New developments in individual cell analysis: Measurements of photosynthetic characteristics and an in situ flow cytometer. Abstract, AGU/ASLO 1996 Ocean Sciences Meeting.
Sosik, H. M., B. S. Halpern and R. J. Olson. 1996. Light absorption and phytoplankton community structure in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. Abstract, AGU/ASLO 1996 Ocean Sciences Meeting.
Chekalyuk, A. M., R. J. Olson and H. M. Sosik. 1996. Pump-during-probe fluorometry of phytoplankton: Group-specific photosynthetic characteristics from individual cell analysis. Abstract, Ocean Optics XIII, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
DuRand, M. D., H. M. Sosik and R. J. Olson. 1997. Size-dependent light scattering and absorption by particles in continental shelf waters: flow cytometric analysis during the Coastal Mixing and Optics Experiment. Abstract, 1998 AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting.
Green, R. E. and H. M. Sosik. 1997. Vertical and temporal variability in apparent optical properties during the Coastal Mixing and Optics Experiment. Abstract, 1998 AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting.