Emily Zakem, Jonathan Maitland Lauderdale, Reiner Schlitzer, Michael J. Follows (2020), A flux-based threshold for anaerobic activity in the ocean, ESSOar (for Geophysical Research Letters), doi: 10.1002/essoar.10504387.1 Continue reading A flux-based threshold for anaerobic activity in the ocean
Category Archives: Diversity and Biogeography

Machine learning helps map global ocean communities
Technique developed by MIT-CBIOMES investigators could aid in tracking the ocean’s health and productivity. Continue reading Machine learning helps map global ocean communities

3 Questions: Greg Britten on how marine life can recover by 2050
Committing to aggressive conservation efforts could rebuild ocean habitats and species populations in a few decades. Continue reading 3 Questions: Greg Britten on how marine life can recover by 2050

Antarctic Marine Microbes Need Their Multivitamins
In the austral summer season of December 2017 – February 2018, Deepa Rao participated in the NSF funded CICLOPS cruise to explore cobalamin and iron co-limitation of phytoplankton species in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica. Continue reading Antarctic Marine Microbes Need Their Multivitamins

Exploring Phytoplankton Diversity
reporting by Helen Hill
In a new paper, MIT-CBIOMES investigator Stephanie Dutkiewicz and collaborators use the Darwin ecosystem model to develop theories seeking to explain and predict phytoplankton biogeography.
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A.M. Kuhn, S. Dutkiewicz, O. Jahn, S. Clayton, T.A. Rynearson, M.R. Mazloff, A.D. Barton (2019), Temporal and spatial scales of correlation in marine phytoplankton communities, JGR Oceans, doi: 10.1029/2019JC015331
Continue reading Temporal and spatial scales of correlation in marine phytoplankton communities
Casey, J., K. Bjorkman, S. Ferron, D. Karl (2019), Size dependence of physiology and metabolism within marine picoplankton populations, Limnology and Oceanography, doi: 10.1002/lno.11153
Continue reading Size Dependence of Physiology and Metabolism within Marine Picoplankton Populations
Svetlana N. Losa, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Martin Losch, Julia Oelker, Mariana A. Soppa, Scarlett Trimborn, Hongyan Xi, and Astrid Bracher (2019), On modeling the Southern Ocean Phytoplankton Functional Types, Biogeosciences Discussions, doi: 10.5194/bg-2019-289
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Emily J. Zakem, Amala Mahadevan, Jonathan M. Lauderdale, and Michael J. Follows (2019), Stable aerobic and anaerobic coexistence in anoxic marine zones, The ISME Journal, doi: s41396-019-0523-8
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Kīlauea Lava Fuels Phytoplankton Bloom off Hawaiʻi Island
A new study led by Samuel T. Wilson from the University of Hawai’i, co-authored with Darwin Project researchers John Casey, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Mick Follows, Christopher Hill, and Oliver Jahn, uses the Darwin ecosystem model embedded within an MITgcm (~2 km) resolution regional physical model of the North Pacific Ocean to study how the input of silicic acid, iron, nitrate, and phosphate along the southeast coast of Hawai‘i impacts nearby phytoplankton productivity. Continue reading Kīlauea Lava Fuels Phytoplankton Bloom off Hawaiʻi Island