Carin Ashjian
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Carin Jessica Ashjian | |
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| Born | April 13, 1960 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Rhode Island Cornell University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| Thesis | The influence of the Gulf Stream on the regional biogeography of zooplankton (Copepods) (1991) |
Carin Jessica Ashjian (born April 13, 1960) is an American biological oceanographer who is an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She studies how the physical environment influences the distribution of plankton in the Beaufort Sea.
Ashijan was born in Boston, and grew up in Massachusetts.[1] She spent her summer holidays on Buzzards Bay.[1] She was an undergraduate student in biology at Cornell University, and started working as an assistant researcher in Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1984. Ashijan completed her doctoral studies at the University of Rhode Island,[2] where she investigated the impact of Gulf Stream on the biogeography of zooplankton.[3]
Ashjian joined the Brookhaven National Laboratory as a research associate. She spent two years at Brookhaven before moving to the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. She completed two cruises to the Arctic, which inspired her research in polar regions.[1] Six months later, Ashjian returned to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
