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JP student Kim Popendorf taking a work break at sea.

JP student Kim Popendorf taking a work break at sea.
JP student Kim Popendorf taking a work break at sea.
JP student Kim Popendorf taking a work break at sea.
JP student Kim Popendorf taking a work break at sea.
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JP student Kim Popendorf taking a work break at sea.
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03/20/2011
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Bio image used on the cover of the issue.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 49, No. 1:
Having grown up in Iowa and Utah, Kim Popendorf often gets asked how she ended up studying the ocean. One answer is that, like most eight-year-old kids, she fell in love with dolphins the first time she saw one at a zoo. Her interest in marine life has been steadily scaling down ever since--from dolphins in elementary school to seastars and crabs in high school, phytoplankton in college, and marine bacteria in graduate school. Another answer is that she's fascinated with the connections between biology, chemistry, and geology in large-scale Earth processes, and she found that the ocean is an intriguing and fun place to study these connections.
She's spent the past several years in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program studying lipids in marine microbes with her Ph.D. advisor Ben Van Mooy. When she's not on a boat or in the lab, she likes to get back to the mountains in Utah and experience water in another globally important form: as snow under her skis! Joel Greenberg, former science editor at the Los Angeles Times was her mentor.
Photo courtesy of Kimberly Popendorf
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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