Staff Profile

Rob Olson

Preferred Name: Robert J Olson

EMERITUS RESEARCH SCHOLAR

BIOLOGY

Email: rolson@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2565

Office: REMOTE 

Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 32
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Education

B.A. Willamette University, 1974, Biology
Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1980, Marine Biology

Research Interests

Plankton ecology, studied through the distributions of individual organisms; potential of flow cytometric technology to characterize the microscopic particles in the sea.