Emily Waggoner

Emily Waggoner is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department at the University of Arizona. In 2019, Emily joined Solange Duhamel's lab of marine microbiology and biogeochemistry to study the various forms of phosphorus that are available to marine microbes for growth. Growing up in Bend, Oregon, Emily spent her summers with a marine biologist studying gray whales and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a B.S. in Environmental Studies and Science Visualization at the University of Southern California. Prior to moving to Tucson, Emily explored a range of opportunities in marine science, from studying methane emissions in California coastal sediments and bottlenose dolphin populations in Scotland, to working as a high school research mentor at an aquarium and designing STEM curricula.

Emily's research focuses on understanding the phosphorus that is available to phytoplankton, including naturally-occurring compounds, as well as emerging marine pollutants.