Moira Décima, PhD

I am a Zooplankton Ecologist.  I am currently an Assistant Professor at University of California, San Diego and the Curator of the Pelagic Invertebrate Collection at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

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My research focuses on processes that determine energy fluxes, shape community and trophic structure, and affect carbon cycling within the plankton, with particular emphasis on the effects of environmental variability.  I use a multi-pronged approach that relies on sea-going methods and laboratory experiments, and consolidate field and lab results using conceptual and numerical models.

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