Dr. Janelle Reynolds-Fleming '94
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The background that Dr. Janelle Reynolds-Fleming ’94 acquired at Wesleyan College has literally taken her around the world. Dr. Fleming is a biological and physical oceanographer. She has worked along the shores of New Zealand and Japan all the way to the North Carolina coast.
As a 1994 Wesleyan graduate, Janelle earned a bachelor of arts in mathematics, cum laude. She then went on to Texas A&M to earn her master’s degree in computational mathematics with a minor in oceanography in 1996. She received her doctorate in marine sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003.
Research and mathematical computations are driving factors in Janelle’s work experience. She has been a part of research teams at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Texas A&M, UNC Chapel Hill, the Environmental Protection Agency, Japan Marine Science Technology Center and the University of Canterbury/NIWA Center for Excellence in Marine and Aquatic Research.
Janelle claims that her Wesleyan education “prepared [her] well for different aspects of my science career.”
She has been honored on numerous occasions for her work. From 1999-2002, she was the EPA star fellow at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City, NC, where she studied the physical circulation of the Neuse River estuary as part of her dissertation, “ The hydrodynamics of the upper Neuse River Estuary, NC and their influence on dissolved oxygen distribution.” Also in 2002, Janelle studied as a National Science Foundation East Asia Summer Institute Fellow in Japan with other scientists researching a project that involves oyster farmers and mechanical aeration in the successful stratification and hypoxia and reduction of excess nutrients.
Then from 2003-2006, Janelle was named an Andrew Mellon post-doctoral fellow at the University of Canterbury/NIWA Center for Excellence in Marine and Aquatic Research in Christchurch, New Zealand. There she conducted modeling and field sampling studies for the dispersal of mussel, barnacle, and gastropod larvae in the Canterbury region of the South Island, NZ. Plus, she guest lectured on introductory oceanography and conservation biology. |
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