Lauren Zamora
Marine & Atmospheric Chemistry Graduate Student

Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science
Division of Marine & Atmospheric Chemistry
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149, U.S.A.

tel.: ++1 (305) 421- 4727
lzamora@rsmas.miami.edu

Education
(exp. 2010): Ph.D., University of Miami: Marine & Atmospheric Chemistry

2004:  B.S., with Honors, University of Maryland, College Park : Environmental Science & Policy (concentration in Biodiversity & Conservation Biology)

Ph.D. Advisor
Dennis Hansell, University of Miami

Research Interests

• Nitrogen and phosphorus biogeochemistry
• Aerosol chemistry and transport
• Ocean acidification
• Numerical modeling

Research Experience and Projects

2008:  Visiting scientist, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany
Created nutrient deposition maps to the ocean, used global circulation   models to study effects on biogeochemistry

2007, 2008: Barbados Dust Deposition Experiment
            Collected and analyzed aerosol and wet deposition samples

2004: INTEX Ozonesonde Network Study
            Sampled vertical tropospheric ozone profiles using ozonesondes

Honors and Awards

• 2008: Provost Student Travel Award
• 2005: Royal Caribbean Fellowship
• 2005: RSMAS Fellowship
• 2000: Banneker/Key full scholarship, University of Maryland

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• Member, American Geophysical Union

Journal Publications

R.A. Duce, J. LaRoche, K. Altieri, K. Arrigo, A. Baker, D. Capone, S. Cornell, F. Dentener, J. Galloway, R. Ganeshram, R.Geider, T. Jickells, M. M. M. Kuypers, R. Langlois, P. S. Liss, S. M. Liu, J.Middelburg, C.M. Moore, S. Nickovic, A. Oschlies, T. F. Pedersen, J. Prospero, S. Seitzinger, L.L. Sorensen, M. Uematsu, O. Ulloa, M. Voss, B. Ward, L. Zamora, 2008. Impacts of Atmospheric Anthropogenic Nitrogen on the Open Ocean. Science 320: 893-897.
 
Hansell D.A., D. Olson, F. Dentener, and L. Zamora, 2007: Assessment of excess nitrate development in the subtropical North Atlantic.  Marine Chemistry 106: 562-579.

Conference & Workshop Participation

• 2008 (this December): American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall 2008 Meeting (invited talk and poster)
• 2007: Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) Summer School
• 2006: Nitrogen Workshop at the University of East Anglia, UK. Participated in discussion of importance of atmospheric nitrogen deposition to the open ocean.

Presentations and Posters

• 2008 (invited talk this December): "Atmospheric Contributions to Excess Nitrate Development in the Subtropical North Atlantic: Atmospheric Viewpoint” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA
• 2008 (poster this December): “Atmospheric Contributions to Excess Nitrate Development in the Subtropical North Atlantic: Oceanographic Viewpoint” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA
• 2007: "The relationship between source and soluble phosphorus content in aerosols from Miami and Barbados" SOLAS Summer School, Corsica, France
• 2006: "Imbalanced "excess N" budget in the North Atlantic: input rates exceed accumulation rate." US Ocean Carbon Workshop Poster, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.
• 2005: “Insights into Free Tropospheric Ozone Sources and Transport in July-August 2004 from IONS Soundings”  American Meteorological Society Conference Poster, San Diego, California.

Interns Supervised

• Christopher Metz, MAST Academy High School (2008-2009)
• Kyle Farmer, Broward Community College (2008)
• Jessica Cross, Rhodes College (2007)
• Christy Hernandez, MAST Academy High School (2006-2007)