Meredith Kime

Meredith completed her undergraduate degree at Stonehill College in the spring of 2022, majoring in Environmental Science, and minoring in Spanish. She started as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Environemental Sciences at Columbia in 2022, working at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory with Drs. Ajit Subramaniam and Andy Juhl. Her research combines ocean color remote sensing and laboratory experiments to understand phytoplankton ecology in coastal systems. Her current projects focus on determining the optimal growth conditions of harmful cyanobacterial blooms in the coastal Arctic, and establishing remote sensing methods to quantify and monitor the presence of these blooms.