E. Virginia Armbrust is a biological oceanographer, professor, and current director of the University of Washington School of Oceanography.
[4] Armbrust obtained a bachelor's degree in human biology at Stanford University in 1980.
She then became faculty at the University of Washington in 1996 and was elected director of the School of Oceanography in 2011.
[5] Armbrust's current research focuses on phytoplankton and their interactions with bacteria.
[6] She led a project which assembled the genome for a type of marine Euryarchaeota that could not be cultured in the lab.