Research
Research Areas
- Oceanography
Biography
2025-present Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2021-2025 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2014-2021 PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, California, USA
Publications
Mittelbach, B., White, M., Rhyner, T., Haghipour, N., Perga, M.-E., Dubois, N., Eglinton, T. Deltaic burial of authigenic calcite modulates the CO2 sink of hardwater lakes. In discussion at Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2891
Genco, B., White, M., Koester, I., Vargas, S., Saunders, J., Saito, M., Garcia Maldonado, J., Aluwihare, L., Beman, J.M. Tropical cyclones drive oxygen minimum zone shoaling and simultaneously alter organic matter production. Science Advances, 11(23), eado8335 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado8335
White, M., Mittelbach, B., Escoffier, N., Rhyner, T., Haghipour, N., Janssen, D., Perga, M.-E., Dubois, N., Eglinton, T. Seasonally dynamic dissolved carbon cycling in a large hard water lake. JGR: Biogeosciences 130 (3), e2024JG008645 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008645
Mittelbach, B., Brunmayr, A., White, M., Rhyner, T., Haghipour, N., Blattmann, T., Wessels, M., Dubois, N., Eglinton, T. Pre-aged organic matter dominates organic carbon burial in a major perialpine lake system. Limnology & Oceanography 70 (4): 911-924 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12815
Rhyner, T., Broeder, L., White, M., Mittelbach, B., Brunmayr, A., Hagedorn, F., Storck, F., Passera, L., Haghipour, N., Zobrist, J., Eglinton, T. Radiocarbon signatures of carbon phases exported by Swiss rivers in the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions A. 231-2261 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2022.0326
White, M., Nguyen, T., Koester, I., Lardie Gaylord, M., Beman, J.M., Smith, K., McNichol, A., Beaupré, S., Aluwihare, L. Refractory dissolved organic matter has similar chemical characteristics but different radiocarbon signatures with depth in the marine water column. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 37, e2022GB007603 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007603
Koester, I., Quinlan, Z., Nothias, L., White, M., Rabines, A., Petras, D., Brunson, J., Duhrkop, K., Ludwig, M., Boecker, S., Azam, F., Allen, A., Dorrestein, P., Aluwihare, L. Illuminating the dark metabolome of Pseudo-nitzschia-microbiome associations. Environmental Microbiology 24:5408–5424 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16242
Phillips, A., White, M., Seidel, M., Wu, F., Pavia, F., Kemeny, P., Ma, A., Aluwihare, L., Dittmar, T., Sessions, A. Novel sulfur isotope analyses constrain sulfurized porewater fluxes as a minor component of marine dissolved organic matter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (41): e2209152119 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209152119
White, M., Rafter, P., Stephens, B., Mazloff, M., Wankel, S., Aluwihare, L. Stable isotopes of nitrate record effects of the 2015–2016 El Niño and diatom iron limitation on nitrogen cycling in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography 67 (10): 2140–56 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12194
Beman, J.M., Vargas, S., Wilson, J., Perez-Coronel, E., Karolewski, J., Vazquez, S., Yu, A., Cairo, A., White, M., Koester, I., Aluwihare, L., Wankel, S. Substantial oxygen consumption by aerobic nitrite oxidation in oceanic oxygen minimum zones. Nature Communications 12:1 12: 1–11 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27381-7
Petras, D., Minich, J., Kunselman, E., Wang, M., White, M., Allen, E., Aluwihare, L., Dorrestein, P. Non-targeted tandem mass spectrometry enables the visualization of organic matter chemotype shifts in coastal seawater. Chemosphere. 271 (May): 129450 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.129450
White, M., Rafter, P., Stephens, B., Wankel, S., Aluwihare, L. Recent Increases in Water Column Denitrification in the Seasonally Suboxic Bottom Waters of the Santa Barbara Basin Geophysical Research Letters 46 (12): 6786–95 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082075
Cyronak, T., Andersson, A., D’Angelo, S., Bresnahan, P., Davidson, C., Griffin, A., Kindeberg, T., Pennise, J., Takeshita, Y., White, M. Short-Term Spatial and Temporal Carbonate Chemistry Variability in Two Contrasting Seagrass Meadows: Implications for pH Buffering Capacities. Estuaries and Coasts 41 (5) (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-017-0356-5