Advisory Board
Maya Thomas (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in biological oceanography and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary in Virginia. For her degree, she is studying how zooplankton-mediated biogeochemical cycling in the Western Antarctic Peninsula is being affected by climate change and has completed three field seasons in the Antarctic totaling almost a year spent “on ice” as a member of the Palmer, Antarctica Long-term Ecological Research program. Prior to her Ph.D., Maya received her B.S. in marine biology from Nova Southeastern University in Florida.