My research is highly interdisciplinary and integrates chemistry, engineering, and physics. My research involves spectroscopy, optics, sensors, lasers, ocean and atmospheric science, laboratory chemistry techniques, and fieldwork. Interested students and postdocs should feel free to contact me at amichel@whoi.edu to discuss research interests.

Prospective Undergraduate Students

  • Students interested in joining the laboratory in a guest student position should contact me directly about possible opportunities.

Prospective Graduate Students
  • Students interested in pursuing PhD research in my lab are encouraged to apply to the highly competitive MIT/WHOI Joint Program. Students should consider applying to the program(s) which best fits his/her research interests. To learn more about interdisciplinary research within the Joint Program, please read the Joint Program Interdisciplinary Statement.

  • The Fields of Study with the strongest overlap with my research are:

Applied Ocean Science and Engineering

Chemical Oceanography

All prospective graduate students are greatly encouraged to apply for external fellowships. Several examples are listed here:

NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship Program
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship
EPA Star Graduate Fellowship Program
Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program
Link Foundation Fellowship for Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation

Guest Students
Students interested in joining the laboratory in a guest student position should contact me directly about possible opportunities.

Prospective Postdocs
WHOI is highly ranked in the Best Places to Work: Postdocs and offers a highly competitive Postdoctoral Scholar Program. WHOI also offers other types of Postdoctoral appointments. Several external fellowships exist that may be of interest to prospective postdocs interested in joining my lab. These include:

Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships  (AGS-PRF)
NSF Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (OCE-PRF)
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships


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