Jody W. Deming’s Ecosystem

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Current Graduate Students

Marcela Ewert Sarmiento,
studying ice selection of exopolymers and microbes, supported by a Vatican Observatory fellowship in Astrobiology and the School of Oceanography, she is working on outreach projects at the Pacific Science Center and the Virtual Planetary Laboratory. See her blog from field work in Barrow, AK 2011. mewerts@u.washington.edu
Jeff Bowman, studying survival mechanisms of bacteria in cold, salty environments, supported by NSF-IGERT and the UW Astrobiology Program, bowmanjs@u.washington.edu. See a recent interview highlighting Astrobiology
Evan Firth, involved in an NSF-funded project on Seasonal Synergy between Bacterial Osmoprotection and Algal Production in Sea Ice, firth.evan@gmail.com. Evan attended the 2013 May Sea Ice Field Course.

Recent Postdoctoral Associates

Joseph G. Marx,
currently with the Federal Bureau of Investigation; studied exopolymer and enzyme production by Colwellia psychrerythraea strain 34H under extreme conditions in the Deming Lab, jgmarx@gmail.com

Karen Junge,
currently at the UW Applied Physics Lab Polar Science Center, studied bacterial activity at subzero temperatures in the Deming Lab, kjunge@apl.washington.edu
Christopher Krembs,
currently lead Oceanographer at the Washington State Department of Ecology; studied exopolymers in sea ice in the Deming Lab,
christopherkrembs@hotmail.com
- Shelly Carpenter,
  Research Scientist/Engineer IV/Lab Manager, seashell@u.washington.edu

Current Research Staff

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