Scripps News (May 11th 2017)

Maria Vernet is an emeritus researcher in the Integrative Oceanography Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the UC San Diego. She earned a master’s degree in biological oceanography from the University of Washington in 1981 and a PhD in biological oceanography from the University of Washington in 1983. A phytoplankton ecologist, she considers long-term changes in marine ecosystems with a special emphasis on life in polar regions.