Olivia Cheriton Joins USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

By Curt Storlazzi Nov. / Dec. 2012

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Olivia Cheriton has joined the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center in Santa Cruz, California, as an oceanographer in support of several projects: Pacific Coral Reef Geology and Oceanography, National Seafloor Mapping and Benthic Habitat Studies, and Climate Change Impacts to the U.S. Pacific and Arctic Coasts.

Above: Olivia Cheriton

Olivia earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, she used bottom-mounted instrument packages, moorings, and vessel surveys to study the physical oceanographic controls on coastal-ocean plankton patches called “thin layers.” She also received a U.S. Defense University Research Instrumentation Program Award for developing a new oceanographic equipment package that includes an undulating underwater vehicle with integrated optical and chemical sensors.

After receiving her Ph.D. in 2008, Olivia worked as a postdoctoral researcher with a joint position between UCSC and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, and then as a postdoctoral researcher at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Moss Landing, California.

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Olivia M. Cheriton Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

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