Dr. Maria Tzortziou
Endowed Professor
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Dr. Tzortziou’s research integrates advanced ocean optics and space-based remote sensing technologies with field observations, laboratory measurements, and numerical coupled physical-biogeochemical models to assess impacts of anthropogenic and natural stressors on biogeochemical cycles and ecological processes along the continuum of inland, coastal, and marine ecosystems.
Dr. Tzortziou has led numerous field campaigns across a range of environments, from the tropics to the Arctic. She is a National Geographic Explorer, a WINGS (Women of Discovery) Explorer, and has received two NASA Group Achievement Awards (2016, 2019) as Science Team member of the DISCOVER-AQ and OWLETS missions. She has been the Deputy Program Applications Lead for NASA's satellite mission PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) and member of the 2014-2017 NASA PACE Science Team. She currently serves as the Lead Principal Investigator for NASA's Earth Venture Suborbital (EVS-4) mission FORTE (Arctic Coastlines: Frontlines of Rapidly Transforming Ecosystems) and the Applied Science Lead for NASA's satellite mission GLIMR. Dr. Tzortziou has served as an expert on numerous interagency advisory and leadership boards relevant to ocean science, marine technology, and policy, including the Science Steering Committee for the Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Program, the Science leadership Board for the North American Carbon Program, the Long Island Sound Study Program Science and Technical Advisory Committee, and the National Ocean Research Advisory Panel that provides independent recommendations to the Federal Government on matters of ocean policy. |
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