Out to sea From the Amazon to Antarctica, oceanographer Patricia
Yager tracks climate change Patricia Yager studies how the
climate is changing the ocean, how the ocean is responding, and
how that relates back to the climate. That’s pretty big-picture
stuff. Luckily, Yager, associate professor in the Department of
Marine Sciences and “Tish” to her friends, is good at thinking
on a big-picture level. When it comes to climate change and the
ocean, “You can’t just study one little piece,” she says. “You
have to have a team. You need all the pieces.” But Yager doesn’t
have just one team. She leads a Moore Foundation- and three
National Science Foundation-funded research projects that look
at carbon cycling, microbial ecology and microbial community
structure in three different coastal regions of the world:
Antarctica, the Arctic and the Amazon River. She’s principal
investigator of an international team of oceanographers and
river scientists that studies carbon and nutrients flowing from
the Amazon River to the A