Sallie Watson "Penny" Chisholm was born on 1947 and is an American biological oceanographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
11 Facts About Sallie Chisholm
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Sallie Chisholm is an expert in the ecology and evolution of ocean microbes.
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Sallie Chisholm's research focuses particularly on the most abundant marine phytoplankton, Prochlorococcus, that she discovered in the 1980s with Rob Olson and other collaborators.
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Sallie Chisholm has a TED talk about their discovery and importance called "The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet".
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Sallie Chisholm attended Skidmore College and earned a PhD from SUNY Albany in 1974.
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Sallie Chisholm has been a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1976 and a visiting scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution since 1978.
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Sallie Chisholm's research has focused on the ecology of marine phytoplankton.
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In recent years, Sallie Chisholm has played a visible role in opposing the use of iron fertilization as a technological fix for anthropogenic climate change.
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Sallie Chisholm has been a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences since 2003 and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1992.
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Sallie Chisholm was a co-recipient in 2012 of the Ruth Patrick Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.
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Sallie Chisholm received the National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama on February 1,2013.