Oceanographer

Jamee Adams is an oceanographer specializing in marine biogeochemistry, nutrient cycling, and coastal ocean processes. She has extensive experience conducting oceanographic fieldwork in the California Current Ecosystem (CCE) and Eastern Tropical North Pacific (ETNP), as well as coastal sampling in the Pacific Northwest. Jamee earned a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences (2025) and an M.S. in Oceanography (2021) from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. Her research prior to joining AMS focused on interactions between organic carbon cycling and phosphorus uptake by phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria in the CCE as part of a long-term ecological research program. She earned a B.S. in Oceanography from the University of Washington in 2017, where she explored carbon export efficiency in the ETNP. Additionally, at Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island, she investigated bisphenol A concentrations in the mussel Mytilus trossulus as an indicator of local water quality. Her technical expertise includes seawater sampling, analytical chemistry, sensor maintenance, and quantitative analysis of environmental data. She has authored peer-reviewed publications spanning marine phosphorus cycling, microbial ecology, and global marine biogeochemistry, and has presented her research at national and international conferences.

Publications

  • Adams, J.C., Steffen, R., Chou, C., Duhamel, S., Diaz, J.M. 2022. Dissolved organic phosphorus utilization by the marine bacterium Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS ‐3 reveals chain length‐ dependent polyphosphate degradation, Environmental Microbiology 24: 2259–2269.
  • Duffy, M.E., Neibauer, J.A., Adams, J.C., Lundeen, R.A., Rocap, G., Ingalls, A.E., Fuchsman, C.A. and Keil, R.G. 2022. Protein cycling in the eastern tropical North Pacific oxygen-deficient zone: A de novo-discovery peptidomic approach. Limnology & Oceanography 67: 498-510.
  • Duhamel, S., Diaz, J.M., Adams, J.C., Djaoudi, K., Steck, V., Waggoner, E.M. 2021. Phosphorus as an integral component of global marine biogeochemistry. Nature Geoscience14: 359–368.