Cindy Lee is a retired Distinguished Professor known for her research characterizing the compounds that comprise marine organic matter.
[3][4] Following graduate school, Lee moved to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where she first worked on sterols in marine sediments.
[5][6][7] In the early 1980s Lee began an extended collaboration with John Hedges, Stuart Wakeham and Michael Peterson which she described in a 2019 publication in Annual Reviews of Marine Science.
[12] Lee also worked on the JGOFS Arabian Sea project where she examined the flux of organic carbon with changes in the Southwest Monsoon.
[14] In 2019, Lee authored two papers that reflect back on her career and provide a path forward and questions for future scientists.