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September 2026.<\/b> New NSF Award!<\/b><\/h6>\n

The Chemical Oceanography Lab has received new funding from the National Science Foundation<\/a> to develop and deploy autonomous tools for high-resolution measurements of nutrients and trace metals in the ocean. <\/span>We are actively recruiting M.S. students to join the lab<\/a> in Fall 2027.<\/b> See our Prospective Students page for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n



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August 2026. EMBER Symposium.<\/b><\/h6>\n

PI Max Grand presented our latest findings on the environmental impacts of the Moss Landing battery fire at the EMBER Symposium held at MLML. Watch recordings of the full event and individual presentations here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n



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April 2026. New pFI paper published in <\/b>Talanta<\/i><\/b>!<\/b><\/h6>\n

Our latest work on programmable Flow Injection (pFI) technology for automated chemical analysis is now published in <\/span>Talanta<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n



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March 2026. One year of post-fire monitoring.<\/b><\/h6>\n

The Chemical Oceanography Lab completed a year-long monthly time series of dissolved and particulate trace metals in Elkhorn Slough following the January 2025 Moss Landing battery fire.<\/span><\/p>\n



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November 2025. First EMBER paper published in <\/b>Scientific Reports<\/i><\/b>!<\/b><\/h6>\n

The first peer-reviewed study documenting the environmental aftermath of the Moss Landing battery fire from the EMBER research group is now published in <\/span>Scientific Reports<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n



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June \u00a02024. pFIONA Gets a Major Software Upgrade!<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Computer Science graduate students Alexandre Jaud and Kylian Ronfleux-Corail from La Rochelle University completed a three-month internship at MLML. During their stay, they completely overhauled pFIONA\u2019s codebase, including the development of new tools for remote monitoring. We can now follow phosphate and silicate concentrations at the Moss Landing shore station in real time while remotely monitoring instrument status and performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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March 2024. Student led pFI paper \u00a0in Frontiers in Marine Science<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Marine Lebrec and Max Grand published our latest developments for autonomous determination of phosphate and silicate via pFI in Frontiers in Marine Science<\/a>. Includes applications at the MLML Aquaculture Facility, Shore Station and as an underway system in the Southern Ocean aboard the RV Investigator!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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May 6, 2022: the programmable Flow Injection Ocean Nutrient Analyzer (pFIONA) is born!<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Birth of pFIONA!<\/strong> In collaboration with three undergraduate students from SJSU\u2019s Mechanical Engineering program working on their senior design project, we are pleased to announce the birth of pFIONA, our programmable Flow Injection Oceanographic Nutrient Analyzer! Following laboratory trials and continued software development, pFIONA will soon be integrated into MLML\u2019s suite of autonomous analytical instruments for high-frequency nutrient measurements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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February 2022: The ChemOce Lab Presents at 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Graduate students Marine Lebrec, Jessica Metter, and Erick Partida will be presenting their MLML thesis research at the 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting<\/a>, being held virtually on 24 February - 4 March 2022. Marine Lebrec will present her work on measuring nutrients using programmable Flow Injection analysis, while Jessica Metter will share results on quantifying bromoform emissions from seaweeds, and Erick Partida will present his research on measuring aluminium using new microfluidic methods. This conference will serve as an opportunity to showcase the variety of projects being undertaken by the MLML Chemical Oceanography lab!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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November 2021: Measuring Phosphate in Monterey Bay<\/h6>\n

Max Grand and Marine Lebrec recently sailed aboard the R\/V Martin where they successfully ran underway surface phosphate samples in Monterey Bay using programmable Flow Injection (pFI) analysis. These continuous measurements were taken from station M1 located at the edge of Monterey Bay all the way to Moss Landing Harbor. Max and Marine also collected seawater samples from a deep 1000m CTD cast at the offshore M1 station, which allowed them to characterize phosphate concentrations throughout the water column. This cruise served as validation that phosphate analysis using their miniaturized nutrient analyzer (pFI) can be run in-situ on a ship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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October 2021: Field Work on Santa Catalina Island<\/h6>\n

Jessica Metter recently went to USC\u2019s Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island to collect seaweeds from the genus Asparagopsis<\/em>, which are the leading candidates for enteric methane reduction in cattle. After collecting the seaweed, Jessica conducted experiments at the Wrigley Marine Science Center to measure the bromocarbon production rate of Asparagopsis<\/em> using bottle incubations. This data will be used as part of a larger data set to estimate the amount of bromocarbons released to the atmosphere by current and future seaweed aquaculture in California and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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International Nutrient Inter-Comparison Voyage<\/h6>\n

Chemical oceanography lab PI Max Grand and graduate student Marine Lebrec will take part in the International Nutrient Inter-comparison Voyage<\/a> departing Hobart in spring 2023. The purpose of this cruise will be for Max and Marine to analyze nutrient samples (phosphate, silicate) in the Southern Ocean using their newly developed methods using programmable Flow Injection (pFI) analysis. They will be able to compare these methods to different shipboard methodologies with the aim of reducing error between different international laboratories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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September 2026. New NSF Award! The Chemical Oceanography Lab has received new funding from the National Science Foundation to develop and deploy autonomous tools for high-resolution measurements of nutrients and trace metals in the ocean. We are actively recruiting M.S. students to join the lab in Fall 2027. See our Prospective Students page for more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Chemical Oceanography","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/chemoce","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/chemoce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/chemoce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/chemoce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/chemoce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/chemoce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/chemoce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/chemoce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1204\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/chemoce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/chemoce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/chemoce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}