Deborah Steinberg

Deborah Steinberg
Nationality United States
Fields Oceanography
Institutions Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary
Alma mater

B.A. University of California Santa Barbara

Ph.D. University of California Santa Cruz
Known for Interdisciplinary oceanography and zooplankton ecology
Website
Deborah Steinberg at VIMS

Deborah K. Steinberg is an American Antarctic biological oceanographer who works on interdisciplinary oceanographic research programs.[1][2] Steinberg's research focuses on the role that zooplankton play in marine food webs and the global carbon cycle, and how these small drifting animals are affected by changes in climate.[3][4]

Early life and education

Steinberg received her B.A. at the University of California Santa Barbara in 1987. During her undergraduate studies she was a member of a science team for winter research expedition in Antarctica. She received a PhD at the University of California Santa Cruz in 1993 focusing on zooplankton and marine dynamics.[4][5] After graduation she joined the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences as a Research Scientist where she remained until 2001. She then joined the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, where she is a CSX Professor of Marine Science.[6]

Career and impact

Steinberg has been an international leader in understanding the zooplankton and jellyfish ecology along with how the food web structures the flux of carbon to the deep sea. She is currently the lead in the US National Science Foundation Long-Term-Ecological-Research (LTER) program focused on understanding how rapid warming drives ecosystem change.[7]

Her research program focuses on how zooplankton influence cycling of nutrients and organic matter, and how climate affects long-term change in zooplankton communities. Steinberg's laboratory has been involved in a number of projects with this theme, including the role of zooplankton vertical migration in transport of nutrients, the ecology of gelatinous zooplankton "blooms" and their affect on fluxes of organic matter, the importance of zooplankton in the cycling of dissolved organic matter, mesopelagic zooplankton and particle flux, and the effects of mesoscale eddies and a large river plume on zooplankton community structure.[5] They are also using long-term data sets from the Western Antarctic Peninsula and the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda to study the effects of climate change on zooplankton communities, and how these community changes may affect ocean food webs and biogeochemistry.[1][8]

Steinberg has worked in a number of marine environments including coastal California,[9] Antarctic,[10] Sargasso Sea,[11] the subtropical and subarctic North Pacific, the Amazon River plume,[12] and the Chesapeake Bay.[2] In the Antarctic, she oversees the krill research of Kim Bernard and her team known as "The Psycho Krillers".[13]

Steinberg has spent collectively more than 1.5 years at sea on more than 50 research cruises, and starred in the documentary "Antarctic Edge: 70° South.[14][15]

Projects

Awards and honors

Professional Memberships

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 Dietrich, Tamara. "VIMS Antarctic research part of new documentary". dailypress.com. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  2. 1 2 Malmquist, Dave (21 July 2005). "VIMS Researchers Re-Enter Ocean "Twilight Zone"". Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Deborah Steinberg". State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Virginia.gov. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  4. 1 2 "5th International Zooplankton Symposium". www.pices.int. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  5. 1 2 Kelly, Daniel (2013-01-18). "Debbie Steingberg Explains Zooplankton Research". Environmental Monitor. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
  6. ↑ "Deborah K. Steinberg". Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  7. ↑ Rejcek, Peter (2010-06-18). "Back in Time". antarcticsun.usap.gov. The Antarctic Sun. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  8. ↑ "In Review: Antarctic Edge: 70° South". www.earthisland.org. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  9. ↑ Malmquist, David (9 October 2012). "Study Shows Small Fish Can Play a Big Role in the Coastal Carbon Cycle". Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Palmer Long Term Ecological Research". Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  11. ↑ "BATS Zooplankton Census". Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  12. ↑ Malmquist, David (14 May 2010). "ANACONDAS Project Brings VIMS to the Amazon Plume". Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  13. ↑ Moran, Susan (12 March 2012). "Team Tracks a Food Supply at the End of the World". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  14. ↑ Antarctic Edge: 70° South, 2015-06-01, retrieved 2016-05-22
  15. ↑ "Antarctic Edge: 70 Degrees South". rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  16. ↑ "Palmer Station Antarctica LTER". Palmer LTER. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  17. ↑ "Overview of BATS". Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study. Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  18. ↑ "Steinberg receives Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award". www.vims.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  19. ↑ Langhorne, Nicholas (3 April 2014). "W&M Announces 2014 Recipients of Plumeri Awards for Faculty Excellence". William & Mary. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  20. ↑ "The Raft Debate". www.wm.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-20.

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