MEREDITH G. MEYER
Graduate Student – Department of Marine Sciences The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [email protected] _______________________________________________________________________ Education The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Summer 2020 – Present Graduate Student, Department of Marine Science The College of William & Mary Fall 2013 – Spring 2017 B.S. Double Major: Environmental Geology, Environmental Science and Policy B.S. Thesis: A Sedimentary Record of Environmental Change Since 1720 From Lake Matoaka, Williamsburg, Virginia _______________________________________________________________________ Research Experience Graduate Student, The Marchetti Lab at UNC Chapel Hill Summer 2020 – Present
Research and Laboratory Specialist I, Virginia Institute of Marine Science Spring 2018- Summer 2020 Research Assistant, William and Mary Geology Department Sedimentology Lab Summer 2016 Intern, Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association Summer 2015 ________________________________________________________________________ Publications Meyer, M.G., Gong, W., Torano, O., and A. Marchetti. Size-fractionated productivity trends during the EXPORTS North Pacific field campaign. Elementa (in prep). Smith, W.O. Jr., Zhang, W.G., Hirzel, A., Stanley, R.M.M., Meyer, M.G., Sosik, H., Alatalo, P., Sandwith, Z., Mehta, A., and D.J. McGillicuddy, Jr. 2020. A regional bloom of Phaeocystis on the New England continental shelf. Jour. Geophys. Res. (submitted). Meyer, M.G. and W.O. Smith, Jr. Using Autonomous Vehicles to Estimate Vertical Fluxes and Remineralization Rates of Organic Matter in the Ocean: A Conceptual Approach. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (submitted). Smith, W.O. Jr. and M.G. Meyer. 2019. Marine Plankton of Open Antarctic Seas. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sci. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11773-7. Balascio, N.L, J.M. Kaste, M.G. Meyer, M. Renshaw, K. Smith, and R.M. Chambers. 2019. A high-resolution mill pond record from the eastern Virginia (USA) reveals the impact of past landscape changes and regional pollution history. Anthropocene 25. doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2019.100190. ________________________________________________________________________ Meeting Presentations Webinar Presentation, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Webinar Series Fall 2020
Poster Presentation, Ocean Sciences Meeting Winter 2020
Poster Presentation, Geological Society of America Southeast Section Meeting Spring 2017 ● Meyer, M.G., Smith, K.L, Balascio, N.B., and Kaste, J.M., 2017, A Sedimentary Record of Environmental Change Since 1720 From Lake Matoaka, Williamsburg, Virginia. ________________________________________________________________________ Field Experience R/V Neil Armstrong – April 2018
R/V Ronald H. Brown – May 2019
R/V Thomas G. Thompson – July 2019
Vietnamese Phaeocystis globosa coastal study – August 2019
Teaching Experience Teaching Assistant – UNC Chapel Hill undergraduate course “Intro to the Marine Environment” Fall 2020 ________________________________________________________________________ Honors and Awards William and Mary Geology Department Ellen Stoffan Scholarship, 2016 - Awarded to two students to support undergraduate research _________________________________________________________________________ Affiliations The Oceanography Society Fall 2019 – Present The Phycological Society of America Fall 2020 – Present _________________________________________________________________________ Service and Outreach Volunteer, Geology on Wheels Program Fall 2015 - Spring 2017 Helped to create and lead fun, educational programs that taught geology to underprivileged children from the Lafayette Kids organization Mentor, William and Mary Women’s Mentoring Program Fall 2018 – Spring 2020 Developed and maintain a mentor-mentee relationship with a female William and Mary undergraduate interested in the sciences |