Patricia Ana Matrai is a marine scientist known for her work on the cycling of sulfur. She is a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

Patricia Matrai
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego
Scientific career
ThesisPhytoplankton production of organic sulfur in the ocean surface waters (1988)

Education and career

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Matrai is originally from Chile.[1] Matria has a B.A. from the Universidad de Concepción (1981), an M.S. (1984) and a Ph.D. (1988) from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California San Diego. Following her Ph.D. she moved to the University of Miami. She became a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in 1995.[2]

Research

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Matrai is known for her work on marine aerosols, especially those that contain sulfur. She has examined the production of sulfur compounds by coccolithophores,[3] a type of phytoplankton.[4] She has also examined the amount of organic sulfur inside phytoplankton cells[5] and during phytoplankton blooms.[6] Matrai has worked on the impact of declines in sea ice[7] and how primary production is measured in the Arctic.[8][9] In 2001 she went to the North Pole on an icebreaker where she studied aerosols produced by phytoplankton.[10] She also does work on outreach and mentoring children to introduce them to science[11]

Selected publications

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Awards and honors

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In 2017 Matrai was named a fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.[12]

References

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  1. ^ Grape, Nancy (1997-09-28). "Women scientists find options more available, at a price". Portland Press Herald. p. 33. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  2. ^ "Paty Matrai - Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences". www.bigelow.org. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  3. ^ Matrai, Patricia A.; Keller, Maureen D. (1993-08-01). "Dimethylsulfide in a large-scale coccolithophore bloom in the Gulf of Maine". Continental Shelf Research. 13 (8): 831–843. Bibcode:1993CSR....13..831M. doi:10.1016/0278-4343(93)90012-M. ISSN 0278-4343.
  4. ^ Samarrai, Fariss (Spring 1995). "Little alga has big place in global climate". Sea Frontiers; Miami. Vol. 41, no. 1. p. 15 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ Matrai, P. A.; Keller, M. D. (1994). "Total organic sulfur and dimethylsulfoniopropionate in marine phytoplankton: intracellular variations". Marine Biology. 119 (1): 61–68. Bibcode:1994MarBi.119...61M. doi:10.1007/BF00350107. ISSN 0025-3162. S2CID 85286768.
  6. ^ Matrai, Patricia A.; Vernet, María (1997-10-15). "Dynamics of the vernal bloom in the marginal ice zone of the Barents Sea: Dimethyl sulfide and dimethylsulfoniopropionate budgets". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 102 (C10): 22965–22979. Bibcode:1997JGR...10222965M. doi:10.1029/96JC03870.
  7. ^ Zhang, Jinlun; Spitz, Yvette H.; Steele, Michael; Ashjian, Carin; Campbell, Robert; Berline, Léo; Matrai, Patricia (2010). "Modeling the impact of declining sea ice on the Arctic marine planktonic ecosystem". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 115 (C10): 2009JC005387. Bibcode:2010JGRC..11510015Z. doi:10.1029/2009JC005387. hdl:1912/4286. ISSN 0148-0227.
  8. ^ Lee, Younjoo J.; Matrai, Patricia A.; Friedrichs, Marjorie A. M.; Saba, Vincent S.; Antoine, David; Ardyna, Mathieu; Asanuma, Ichio; Babin, Marcel; Bélanger, Simon; Benoît-Gagné, Maxime; Devred, Emmanuel; Fernández-Méndez, Mar; Gentili, Bernard; Hirawake, Toru; Kang, Sung-Ho (2015). "An assessment of phytoplankton primary productivity in the Arctic Ocean from satellite ocean color/in situ chlorophyll- a based models". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 120 (9): 6508–6541. Bibcode:2015JGRC..120.6508L. doi:10.1002/2015JC011018. ISSN 2169-9275. PMC 5014238. PMID 27668139.
  9. ^ Arrigo, Kevin R.; Matrai, Patricia A.; van Dijken, Gert L. (2011). "Primary productivity in the Arctic Ocean: Impacts of complex optical properties and subsurface chlorophyll maxima on large-scale estimates". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 116 (C11): 2011JC007273. Bibcode:2011JGRC..11611022A. doi:10.1029/2011JC007273. ISSN 0148-0227.
  10. ^ Fish, Jen (2001-06-20). "Researchers get polar view of climate". Portland Press Herald. pp. [1], [2]. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  11. ^ Grape, Nancy (2001-06-20). "How to open a child's mind forever". Portland Press Herald. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  12. ^ "ASLO Fellows". ASLO. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
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