Patricia Ana Matrai is a marine scientist known for her work on the cycling of sulfur.
(1984) and a Ph.D. (1988) from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California San Diego.
She has examined the production of sulfur compounds by coccolithophores,[3] a type of phytoplankton.
[6] Matrai has worked on the impact of declines in sea ice[7] and how primary production is measured in the Arctic.
[8][9] In 2001 she went to the North Pole on an icebreaker where she studied aerosols produced by phytoplankton.