Sallie W. Chisholm
American oceanographer, marine biologist · United States · Academics · Born 1947 · age 78
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Something wrong?Sallie Watson "Penny" Chisholm is an American biological oceanographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an expert in the ecology and evolution of ocean microbes.
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Daniel PaulyBoth received Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology
Richard LenskiBoth received Fellow of the Ecological Society of America
Maurice EwingBoth received Alexander Agassiz Medal
Walter E. MasseyBoth received honorary doctor of Harvard UniversityDan McKenzieBoth received A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences
May R. BerenbaumBoth received Fellow of the Ecological Society of AmericaAbout this person
Sallie Watson "Penny" Chisholm is an American biological oceanographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an expert in the ecology and evolution of ocean microbes. Her research focuses particularly on the most abundant marine phytoplankton, Prochlorococcus, that she discovered in the 1980s with Rob Olson and other collaborators. She has a TED talk about their discovery and importance called "The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet".
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