Expedition Team

Emelia DeForce

Emelia DeForce


Age: 31
First timer with SEA!
Occupation: Graduate student at UMass Boston studying microbial ecology
Hometown: Woods Hole, MA

Emelia is on the brink of finishing up her graduate degree in microbiology at University of Massachusetts Boston and is currently looking for a post doctoral position in microbial ecology. She has been on several other research cruises in the past, including trips with R/V Atlantis and Alvin in the Pacific, and one with R/V Thomas G. Thompson in the South Pacific. Being on the ocean is where it's at for her!

She was involved with collecting and preserving the plastic pieces during the Plastics at SEA Expedition and anticipates some very interesting results to questions surrounding the role that microbes play in plastics at sea. She has been working on some of the preliminary data from the samples at sea during her stay at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and hopes to report about them in the near future. She can be contacted at emelia.deforce@umb.edu.




funding

Plastics at SEA: North Atlantic Expedition 2010 is funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Debris Program. Additional funding provided by Sea Education Association and Henry L. and Grace Doherty Foundation. American Chemistry Council provided support for web-based outreach. Crew gear provided by Patagonia. This expedition is in collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Woods Hole Sea Grant.