Cara Manning

Cara Manning is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut. Her research develops mobile methods for measuring environmental gases and biogeochemical tracers to study Arctic climate impacts, carbon cycling, and nutrient pollution.

Work emphasizes high-resolution field measurements using deployable mass spectrometry and isotopic techniques. Current projects examine greenhouse gas fluxes in Arctic marine systems, dissolved nutrient dynamics, and climate feedback loops in polar regions.

Publications focus on geochemical tracer applications in oceanography, with recent advances in sensor network best practices and isotope-based quantification of nitrogen cycle processes.