CV (condensed)

Education

MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MIT-WHOI) Joint Program

  • Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography, February 2017
  • Thesis: Novel analytical strategies for tracing the organic carbon cycle in marine and riverine particles

Brown University                                                                                                     

  • Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, Magnum Cum Laude, 2011
  • Honors thesis: The Early Eocene Climatic Optimum, an environmental snapshot within Earth’s latest hothouse

School for International Training

  • Semester abroad in Belém, Brazil, Spring 2010

PUBLICATIONS

Rosengard, S. Z., C. Freshwater, S McKinnell, Y. Xu, and P.D. Tortell: Co-variability of Fraser River sockeye salmon productivity and phytoplankton biomass in the Gulf of Alaska, Fisheries Oceanography, submitted, 2021.

Rosengard, S. Z., R.W. Izett, W.J. Burt, N. Schuback, and P.D. Tortell: Decoupling of net community production and particulate organic carbon dynamics in near shore surface ocean waters, Biogeosciences, 2019.

Pedersen, C. and S.Z. Rosengard: Linking Remote Sensing and Local Observations with the Indigenous Knowledge Social Network, Group on Earth Observations blog, 2019.

Wagner, S., Brandes, J., Spencer, R. G. M., Rosengard, S. Z., Moura, J. M., and Stubbins, A.: Isotopic composition of oceanic dissolved black carbon reveals non-riverine source, Nature Communications, 2019.

Hemingway, J. D., Rothman, D. H., Grant, K. E., Rosengard, S. Z., Eglinton, T. I., Derry, L. A., and Galy, V. V.: Global preservation of natural organic carbon controlled by particles, Nature, 2019.

Rosengard, S. Z.: A Amazônia através da arte da juventude em Arapixuna (The Amazon through the easels of Arapixuna’s youth), Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, 2019.

Rosengard, S.Z., Lam, P. J., McNichol, A. P., Johnson, C. G., and Galy, V. V.: The effect of sample drying temperature on marine particulate organic carbon composition, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 16(5), 286-298, 2018.

Zeng, C., Rosengard, S. Z., Burt, W., Pena, A., Nemcek, N., Zeng, T., Arrigo, K., and Tortell, P.: Optically-derived estimates of phytoplankton size class and taxonomic group biomass in the Eastern Subarctic Pacific Ocean, Deep-Sea Research Part I, 136, 107-118, 2018.

Hemingway, J. D., Rothman, D. H., Rosengard, S. Z., and Galy, V. V.: Technical note: An inverse method to relate organic carbon reactivity to isotope composition from serial oxidation, Biogeosciences, 14, 5099-5114, 2017.

Rosengard, S.Z.: Novel analytical strategies for tracing the organic carbon cycle in marine and riverine particles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2017.

Hemingway, J. D., Galy, V. V., Gagnon, A. R., Grant, K. E., Rosengard, S. Z., Soulet, G., Zigah, P., and McNichol, A. P.: Assessing the blank carbon contribution, isotope mass balance, and kinetic isotope fractionation of the ramped pyrolysis/oxidation instrument at NOSAMS, Radiocarbon, 59, 179-193, 2017.

Balch, W., Bates, N., Lam, P., Twining, B., Rosengard, S., Bowler, B., Drapeau, D., Garley, R., Lubelczyk, L., Mitchell, C., and Rauschenberg, S.: Factors regulating the Great Calcite Belt in the Southern Ocean and its biogeochemical significance, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30, 1124-1144, 2016.

Rosengard, S. Z.: Sizing the ocean’s carbon pumps, Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, doi:10.1001/lob.10127, 2016.

Rosengard, S. Z.:Specks in the spectrometer: an atomic odyssey from the Great Calcite Belt to a data point, Oceanus, 51, 2016.

Rosengard, S. Z., Lam, P. J., Balch, W. M., Auro, M. E., Pike, S., Drapeau, D., and

Bowler, B.: Carbon export and transfer to depth across the Southern Ocean Great Calcite Belt, Biogeosciences, 12, 3953-3971, 2015. Fischer, A. D., Moberg, E. A., Alexander, H., Brownlee, E. F., Hunter-Cevera, K. R., Pitz, K. J., Rosengard, S. Z., and Sosik, H. M: Sixty years of Sverdrup: A retrospective of progress in the study of phytoplankton blooms, Oceanography, 27(1), 222–235, 2014.

AWARDS

Mitacs Postdoctoral Elevate Award, 2019

MEOPAR Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, 2018-2019

MIT pk-12 STEAM camp grant, 2018

ASLO Global Outreach Initiative Award, 2017

Training our Future Ocean Leaders Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2017

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2011

PRESENTATIONS

ArcticNet. “A Summary Of Progress A Year Since Public Launch.” C. Sudlovenick, M. Appaqaq, J. Kudluarok, B. Nicoll, S.Z. Rosengard, B. Segal, E. Warner, and J. Heath. Dec 2020.

PICES. “Co-variability of Fraser River sockeye productivity and phytoplankton biomass distributions in the NE Subarctic Pacific Ocean.” S. Z. Rosengard, C. Freshwater, Y. Xu, and P. Tortell. Oct 2020.

Invited talk at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL. “From molecules to satellites: using the chemist’s toolbox to explore the carbon cycle and address environmental change.” S.Z. Rosengard. Feb 2020.

Indigenous mapping workshop. “The SIKU application.” J. Heath, S. Z. Rosengard and C. Pedersen. Oct 2019. Co-presenter and workshop facilitator.

ASLO. “Blending scientific and artistic techniques to advance environmental literacy and stewardship: case studies in Brazil and Hong Kong.” S. Z. Rosengard, F. Albuquerque, J. Moura and K. Browne. Feb 2019.

ASLO. “Optically-derived time-series of phytoplankton community composition for management of wild salmon fisheries in the Northeast Pacific Ocean.” S. Z. Rosengard, P. Tortell, M. Dowd and C. Freshwater. Feb 2019.

American Geophysical Union (AGU)-NESTA Teachers Workshop. “Algae in our backyard: An ArtScience exploration.” Kyle Browne and S. Z. Rosengard. Dec 2018.

Invited talk at Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará. “Novel Analytical Strategies for Tracing the Organic Carbon Cycle in Riverine Particles”. S. Z. Rosengard, R. Spencer, J. Moura, A. McNichol and V. Galy. April 2018. Oral presentation to university undergraduates and professors in Brazil.

Public presentation in Vancouver, British Columbia. “Tracking tiny algae in the sea.” S. Z. Rosengard. Mar 2018.

Ocean Sciences meeting. “Diurnal variability in surface chlorophyll-a, phytoplankton carbon and particle size distribution in two contrasting biomass regimes of the coastal Northeast Pacific Ocean.” S. Z. Rosengard, C. Zeng, W. Burt, N. Schuback, and P. Tortell. Feb 2018.

Invited Talk at the University of Washington. “Optics-based time series of phytoplankton community composition in the North Pacific and their application to Pacific salmon forecasts.” S. Z. Rosengard. Feb 2018.

Invited Talk at the University of Connecticut, Avery Point. “The distribution, flux and fate of predominantly soil-derived particulate organic carbon in the Amazon River main stem.” S. Z. Rosengard. Mar 2017.

ASLO meeting. “Diagnosing and quantifying sources to Amazon River particulate organic carbon via ramped oxidation.” S. Z. Rosengard, V. Galy, A. P. McNichol, R. Spencer, and J. Hemingway. Feb 2017.

Invited Talk at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute. “The distribution, flux and fate of predominantly soil-derived particulate organic carbon in the Amazon River main stem.” S. Z. Rosengard. Feb 2017.

Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry department defense at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA. “Novel analytical strategies for tracing the organic carbon cycle in marine and riverine particles.” S.Z. Rosengard. Dec 2016.

Department seminar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA. “Export and transfer of Southern Ocean particulate organic carbon through the lens of ramped oxidation.” S. Z. Rosengard, P. J. Lam, V. Galy, and A.P. McNichol. Mar 2016.

Ocean Science Meeting. “SUBMERGE! bringing the ocean closer to New York City.” S.Z. Rosengard, H. Alexander, and C. Cramer. Feb 2016.

Ocean Science Meeting. “Export and transfer of Southern Ocean particulate organic carbon through the lens of ramped oxidation.” S. Z. Rosengard, P. J. Lam, V. Galy, and A.P. McNichol. Feb 2016.

Invited talk at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL. “How rivers move rain forests: following carbon from the Amazon River Basin to the Atlantic Ocean.” S.Z. Rosengard. Feb 2016.

AGU Fall Meeting. “Temporal and water column variability in particulate organic carbon composition on the Amazon River main-stem”. S.Z. Rosengard, V. Galy, R. Spencer, and A.P. McNichol. Dec 2015.

AGU Fall Meeting. “A Decade of Graduate Climate Conferences for Training the Next Generation of Earth Scientists.” D. Rothenberg, S.Z. Rosengard, K. Lapo, L. Johnson, T. Rohr, and D. Perez-Betancourt. Dec 2015.

Ocean Sciences Meeting. “The Broader Impacts Group: student-led efforts to bring science communication into the graduate education process.” A. Alpert and S.Z. Rosengard. Feb 2014.

ASLO Meeting.  “Organic carbon export across the Great Calcite Belt, investigating ballast in calcite-rich surface waters of the Southern Ocean.” S.Z. Rosengard, P.J. Lam, M.E. Auro, S.M. Pike, and W. Balch. Feb 2013.

Graduate Climate Conference. “Organic carbon export from the Great Calcite Belt, the role of ballast minerals in the biological pump.” S.Z. Rosengard, P.J. Lam, M.E. Auro, S.M. Pike, and W. Balch. Oct 2012.

AGU Fall Meeting. “Carbon cycle dynamics through the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum: orbital couplings to lacustrine cycling.” S.Z. Rosengard, D.S. Grogan, J.H. Whiteside, and D. Musher. Dec 2010.