Ubiquitous marine organism has co-evolved with other microbes, promoting more complex ecosystems. Continue reading Tiny bacterium provides window into whole ecosystems
Monthly Archives: March 2017
New Postdoc Aboozar Tabatabai
Aboozar Tabatabai joins the Darwin team from Rutgers University where he was working on hydrodynamic and biogeochemical modeling in estuarine environments to quantify nutrient fluxes for his PhD project with Dr. John Wilkin. Continue reading New Postdoc Aboozar Tabatabai
Plankton can save the ocean. But who will save the plankton?
Read this post by Lauren Hinkel via Oceans@MIT
When it comes to climate change and the oceans, MIT Principal Research Scientist Stephanie Dutkiewicz weighs in on why it’s not just warming oceans we need to worry about. Plankton — that are crucial for carbon sequestration and oxygen production — have been discovered behaving strangely, but they may point the way to better geoengineering and understanding of trends in marine populations and ecology.
Dutkiewicz’s research examines how the physics and chemistry of the ocean determines phytoplankton biogeography, and how in turn those organisms affect their environment.
Read her comments in New Scientist.