Michael Chen
He/Him
I am gay and I am an oceanographer.//
I grew up in suburban Ohio, then made my way to the east coast, where I did my BA in biology at Williams College. My undergraduate research ranged from open ocean phytoplankton physiology to bacterial single-cell genomics. Afterwards, I spent a few years working in an infectious disease lab (tuberculosis….and then also COVID) at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I’m now at Rutgers University pursuing a masters in oceanography, studying phytoplankton dynamics and carbon export in the Southern Ocean.