Research Interests:

• Biological oceanography
• Biogeochemical oceanography
• Primary productivity and phytoplankton physiology in response to iron enrichment
• Southern Ocean
• Equatorial Pacific, Coastal Upwelling, HNLC

Education:

• Ph.D. Environment, Duke University, Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Science
• 1st International SOLAS Summer School, Corsica
• B.S. Biology/Chemistry minor East Carolina University Greenville, NC

Bio:
My research focuses on using multidisciplinary data sets to undersdtand how environmental variability (both physical and biological) effects cetacean distribution in Antarctica. I am interested in determining the habitat requirements for individual species, and how this relates to their foraging abilities, and the potential effects of climate change and variability on their environment. Closer to home, I am involved in long term health assessment and conservation projects with bottlenose dolphins, and remain active in the marine mammal stranding network as part of the large whale necropsy team.

Publications:

• Lance, V.P. and R.T. Barber.  Annual carbon export productivity in an iron enriched Southern Ocean.  In Preparation (2007).

• Hiscock, M.R., V.P. Lance, A. Apprill, R.R. Bidigare, B.G. Mitchell, W.O. Smith, Jr., R.T. Barber.  Quantum yield of photosynthesis drives Southern Ocean iron response.  Submitted (2007).
• Lance, V. P., M.R. Hiscock, A.K. Hilting, D.A. Steube, R.R. Bidigare, W.O. Smith, Jr., R.T. Barber.  2007.  Primary productivity increases and differential phytoplankton pigment composition responses in two Southern Ocean in situ iron enrichments. Deep Sea Research Part I, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2007.02.008.
• Buesseler, K. O., J. E. Andrews, S. Pike, M. A. Charette, L. E. Goldson, M. A. Brzezinski, and V. P. Lance. 2005.  Particle export during the Southern Ocean Iron Experiment (SOFeX). Limnology and Oceanography, 50(1), 311-327.
• Coale, K. H. et al. 2004.  Southern ocean iron enrichment experiment: Carbon cycling in high- and low-Si waters. Science 304, 408-414.
• Bonaventura, J. and V.P. Lance. 2001.  Nitric oxide, invertebrates and hemoglobin.  American Zoologist, 41:346-359.