Pamela Rossel

Re­se­arch area

My re­se­arch area is or­ga­nic geo­che­mis­try, in which I have been working sin­ce 2001. Du­ring my ca­re­er I have ana­ly­zed sam­ples from dif­fe­rent and ex­cit­ing ma­ri­ne en­vi­ron­ments in­clu­ding: me­tha­ne bio/​geo­sys­tems, the deep Arc­tic Oce­an, hydro­ther­mal vent sys­tems, the Chi­le­an fjords and the Gulf of Me­xi­co af­ter the deep wa­ter ho­ri­zon oil spill. I am in­te­rested in the iden­ti­fi­ca­ti­on of mole­cu­les that can be re­la­ted to bio­lo­gi­cal pro­ces­ses that af­fect the flux of mat­ter and en­er­gy in ma­ri­ne en­vi­ron­ments and in what the­se mole­cu­les can tell us about the­se li­ving sys­tems. 

Mo­ti­va­ti­on for sci­ence and com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on

As a sci­en­tist and also as a mo­ther, I re­co­gni­ze the ne­ces­si­ty of pas­sing part of what I have lear­ned about earth sci­ence to my kids but also to other peop­le. The op­por­tu­ni­ty to ex­plo­re and learn how to com­mu­ni­ca­te sci­ence as part of this team is a gre­at op­por­tu­ni­ty that al­lows us to in­te­gra­te our know­ledge from a va­rie­ty of di­sci­pli­nes and to com­mu­ni­ca­te it in a fri­end­ly con­text, which I think is an im­portant task for us and the best way to edu­ca­te fu­ture ge­ne­ra­ti­ons on how to be con­scious about our en­vi­ron­ment.

Here you find an excerpt from my story "Lucas - our common ancestor in the deep sea volcanos".