Bio


I am a biological oceanographer studying the response of ice algae, phytoplankton, and biogeochemical cycles to climate change in the polar oceans. My personal website is https://slim8288.github.io

Professional Education


  • Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, ESS-PHD (2025)
  • B.A., Scripps College, Biology (2018)

Stanford Advisors


Lab Affiliations


All Publications


  • Primary production associated with sea ice Sea Ice Lim, S. M., Campbell, K., Arrigo, K. R. John Wiley & Sons. 2025; 4th: 433-474
  • A high-density multi-species bivalve spawning event in the southern Chukchi Sea Marine Ecology Progress Series Fachon, E., Schrage, K. R., Lago, L. S., Pathare, M., Lim, S. M., Goethel, C. 2025; 773: 43-59

    View details for DOI 10.3354/meps14981

  • Spatial and Interannual Variability of Antarctic Sea Ice Bottom Algal Habitat, 2004-2019 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS Lim, S. M., van Dijken, G. L., Arrigo, K. R. 2023; 128 (9)
  • Increases in Arctic sea ice algal habitat, 1985-2018 Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene Lim, S. M., Payne, C. M., van Dijken, G. L., Arrigo, K. R. 2022; 10 (1)
  • Field Observations and Physical-Biogeochemical Modeling Suggest Low Silicon Affinity for Antarctic Fast Ice Diatoms JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS Lim, S. M., Moreau, S., Vancoppenolle, M., Deman, F., Roukaerts, A., Meiners, K. M., Janssens, J., Lannuzel, D. 2019; 124 (11): 7837–53