Staff Profile

Mariya Galochkina

Preferred Name: Mariya Galochkina

Joint Program Student

Geology & Geophysics

Email: mgalochkina@whoi.edu

Phone:

Website: https://mgalochkina.github.io/

Education

B.S. Geology (Physics and Marine Science Minors), Rutgers University, 2020

Research Statement

I’m a PhD candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography advised by Drs. Anne Cohen and Delia Oppo. I’m broadly interested in understanding how tropical oceans and coral reefs have responded to past and present climate variability. More specifically, my research explores the links between basin-scale marine heatwaves, the amplitude and spatial structure of localized heat anomalies, and the coral response to extreme heat across shallow water coral reefs. Through my research, I aim to develop a better understanding of coral reef thermal tolerance thresholds through time as well as revise predictions of 21st century coral reef survivorship, bleaching, and mortality across tropical basins.