- Jonah Steinbuck
- Stanford University
I grew up in Elk, California, a small coastal community 150 miles north of San Francisco. In this rural setting, I grew intrigued and enamored with my natural surroundings — the redwood forests, meandering rivers, and of course the Pacific Ocean. One of my first marine memories was of a time when I walked to the tide pools in Mendocino and fed muscles to a delighted group of crabs.
Since then, I have continued to involve myself in studies of the marine environment. As an undergraduate at Stanford, I worked on two research projects in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. The first project examined the food search patterns of mantis shrimp in wavy environments. The second investigated the transport of nutrients over coral reefs.
My interest in academic research and my enchantment with aquatic ecosystems led to me to graduate school. In 2003, I received an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley. Currently, I am working with Professor Stephen Monismith in the doctoral program in Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Hydrology at Stanford. My current research seeks to understand the coupling of turbulence dynamics and phytoplankton distributions in the upper ocean.
I am excited to have the opportunity to work with this talented group of researchers in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
