Faculty

Sairah Malkin

Associate Professor
Faculty
Sairah Malkin
Associate Professor
Horn Point Laboratory

Bio

My research aims to better quantify and predict rates and pathways of geochemical cycling in aquatic systems, integrating tools from aquatic geochemistry and microbial ecology. A main theme of my research is to better understand carbon and nutrient processing through benthic pathways in aquatic ecosystems, with a particular interest in sulfur oxidizing bacteria in aquatic sediments. 

Areas of Expertise

  • Aquatic biogeochemistry and microbial ecology
  • Benthic-pelagic coupling in coastal marine and lake environments
  • Ecology of sulfur oxidizing bacteria

Education

  • University of Waterloo, Canada, 2008, Ph.D., Biology
  • University of Waterloo, Canada, 2002, M.S., Biology
  • McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1998, B.S., Biology

Regularly Offered Courses

Lab News

New book assesses changing anthropogenic pressures in the context of global climate change

HPL Professor Emeritus Tom Malone and European partners edit a new book in which, after two decades, they revisit two ecosystems, Chesapeake Bay and the Northern Adriatic, gleaning new insights to inform sustainable development of coastal environments using eco-system based approaches.

Next Generation: Michael Kalinowski on reducing the environmental impacts of oyster aquaculture

My research focuses on building and testing tools to place below oyster aquaculture cages to help prevent environmental damage to the sediment.