Benjamin Van Mooy is an oceanographer and senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution located in Woods Hole, MA. His work primarily focuses on chemical oceanography, with a particular focus on the production and remineralization of marine organic matter. He is credited with the discovery of sulfolipid substitution for phospholipids in marine plankton in times of phosphorus scarcity., and the production of viral glycosphingolipids as a result of infection from coccolithoviruses in Emiliania huxleyii Source: Wikipedia (en)