Nicole Poulton

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Dr. Nicole Poulton is the Director of the Center for Aquatic Cytometry and a Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.  Nicole’s main research interests focus on phytoplankton and aquatic microbial ecology, including harmful algal blooms and the role of phytoplankton in the global carbon cycle.  Her research uses aquatic flow and imaging cytometry, single cell sorting and genomics to examine phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in the oceanic environment.   She has over 25 years of flow cytometric experience within the aquatic sciences. Nicole received her PhD in Biological Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.  Nicole is very active in education and outreach and currently an ISAC Councilor (2020-2024) and a Shared Resource Laboratory Emerging Leader (2017-2021).