Patricia Matrai

Matrai is originally from Chile.[1] Matria has a B.A. from the Universidad de Concepción (1981), an M.S. (1984) and a Ph.D. (1988) from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California San Diego. Following her Ph.D. she moved to the University of Miami. She became a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in 1995.[2]

Matrai is known for her work on marine aerosols, especially those that contain sulfur. She has examined the production of sulfur compounds by coccolithophores,[3] a type of phytoplankton.[4] She has also examined the amount of organic sulfur inside phytoplankton cells[5] and during phytoplankton blooms.[6] Matrai has worked on the impact of declines in sea ice[7] and how primary production is measured in the Arctic.[8][9] In 2001 she went to the North Pole on an icebreaker where she studied aerosols produced by phytoplankton.[10] She also does work on outreach and mentoring children to introduce them to science[11]

• Kettle, A. J.; Andreae, M. O.; Amouroux, D.; Andreae, T. W.; Bates, T. S.; Berresheim, H.; Bingemer, H.; Boniforti, R.; Curran, M. A. J.; DiTullio, G. R.; Helas, G.; Jones, G. B.; Keller, M. D.; Kiene, R. P.; Leck, C. (1999). "A global database of sea surface dimethylsulfide (DMS) measurements and a procedure to predict sea surface DMS as a function of latitude, longitude, and month". Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 13 (2): 399–444. doi:10.1029/1999GB900004. S2CID 131236036.
• Matrai, Patricia A.; Keller, Maureen D. (1993-08-01). "Dimethylsulfide in a large-scale coccolithophore bloom in the Gulf of Maine". Continental Shelf Research. 13 (8): 831–843. doi:10.1016/0278-4343(93)90012-M. ISSN 0278-4343.
• Matrai, P. A.; Keller, M. D. (1994). "Total organic sulfur and dimethylsulfoniopropionate in marine phytoplankton: intracellular variations". Marine Biology. 119 (1): 61–68. doi:10.1007/BF00350107. ISSN 0025-3162. S2CID 85286768.
• Codispoti, L. A.; Kelly, V.; Thessen, A.; Matrai, P.; Suttles, S.; Hill, V.; Steele, M.; Light, B. (2013-03-01). "Synthesis of primary production in the Arctic Ocean: III. Nitrate and phosphate based estimates of net community production". Progress in Oceanography. 110: 126–150. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2012.11.006. ISSN 0079-6611.
• Matrai, Patricia A.; Vernet, María (1997-10-15). "Dynamics of the vernal bloom in the marginal ice zone of the Barents Sea: Dimethyl sulfide and dimethylsulfoniopropionate budgets". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 102 (C10): 22965–22979. doi:10.1029/96JC03870.

In 2017 Matrai was named a fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.[12]

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