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		<title>New Insights into Ocean Carbon Storage During the Last Glacial Maximum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 01:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent study led by Anne Willem Omta highlights the pivotal role of biological processes in regulating carbon storage in the ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum.  Read this story at cbiomes.org]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon isotope budget indicates biological disequilibrium dominated ocean carbon storage at the Last Glacial Maximum</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/carbon-isotope-budget-indicates-biological-disequilibrium-dominated-ocean-carbon-storage-at-the-last-glacial-maximum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Omta, A.W., Follett, C.L., Lauderdale, J.M. et al. (2024), Carbon isotope budget indicates biological disequilibrium dominated ocean carbon storage at the Last Glacial Maximum, Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52360-z Description: Understanding the causes of the ~90 ppmv atmospheric CO2 swings between glacial and interglacial climates is an important open challenge in paleoclimate research. Although the regularity of &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/carbon-isotope-budget-indicates-biological-disequilibrium-dominated-ocean-carbon-storage-at-the-last-glacial-maximum/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Carbon isotope budget indicates biological disequilibrium dominated ocean carbon storage at the Last Glacial Maximum</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Multiple biotic interactions establish phytoplankton community structure across environmental gradients</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/multiple-biotic-interactions-establish-phytoplankton-community-structure-across-environmental-gradients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Christopher L. Follett, Michael J. Follows, Fernanda Henderikx-Freitas, Francois Ribalet, Mary R. Gradoville, Sacha N. Coesel, Hanna Farnelid, Zoe V. Finkel, Andrew J. Irwin, Oliver Jahn, David M. Karl, Jann Paul Mattern, Angelicque E. White, Jonathan P. Zehr, Virginia Armbrust (2024), Multiple biotic interactions establish phytoplankton community structure across environmental gradients, Limnology and &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/multiple-biotic-interactions-establish-phytoplankton-community-structure-across-environmental-gradients/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Multiple biotic interactions establish phytoplankton community structure across environmental gradients</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New model sheds light on day/night cycle in the global ocean</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/new-model-sheds-light-on-daynight-cycle-in-the-global-ocean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computer models of global ocean biogeochemistry typically don’t include the day/night light cycle. CBIOMES researchers are. Via NSF News Phytoplankton are the foundation of all life on the planet. Understanding how these photosynthetic organisms react to their ocean environment is important to understanding the rest of the food web. But computer models of the global ocean &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/new-model-sheds-light-on-daynight-cycle-in-the-global-ocean/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">New model sheds light on day/night cycle in the global ocean</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Plankton&#8217;s Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 14:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to CBIOMES researchers, predator interactions chiefly determine where Prochlorococcus thrive &#8211; a finding that may help researchers hone predictions for where phytoplankton will migrate with climate change. Read this story at MIT News Prochlorococcus are the smallest and most abundant photosynthesizing organisms on the planet. A single Prochlorococcus cell is dwarfed by a human red blood cell, &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/planktons-place/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Plankton&#8217;s Place</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin Welcomes Research Scientist Barbara Duckworth</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/darwin-welcomes-research-scientist-barbara-duckworth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A warm Darwin-welcome to Barbara (Barbie) Duckworth who recently joined the group to work with Chris Follet. ​Barbara (Barbie) Duckworth, who has a background in software engineering, backend management, and algorithm development,  joins Darwin to explore ways to leverage their skills to create models of phytoplankton distribution in a changing environment, in particular, working on ways &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/darwin-welcomes-research-scientist-barbara-duckworth/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Darwin Welcomes Research Scientist Barbara Duckworth</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Moving ecological and biogeochemical transitions across the North Pacific</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/moving-ecological-and-biogeochemical-transitions-across-the-north-pacific/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher L. Follett, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Gael Forget, B.B. Cael, Michael J. Follows (2021), Moving ecological and biogeochemical transitions across the North Pacific, Limnology and Oceanography, doi: 10.1002/lno.11763 Description: In the North Pacific Ocean, nutrient-rich surface waters flow south from the subpolar gyre through a transitional region and into the subtropics. Along the way, nutrients are used, recycled, and exported, leading &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/moving-ecological-and-biogeochemical-transitions-across-the-north-pacific/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Moving ecological and biogeochemical transitions across the North Pacific</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fellow Travelers</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/fellow-travelers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 21:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Nitrogen Fixation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Observations suggest diazotrophs like Crocosphaera and Trichodesmium pay for their ability to fix nitrogen with a very low growth rate, yet diatom-diazotroph associations or DDAs exhibit high growth rates. CBIOMES postdoctoral fellow Chris Follett and co-authors use a cell flux model to test the hypothesis that diatom-diazotroph associations or DDAs grow faster than unpaired diazotrophs &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/fellow-travelers/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Fellow Travelers</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Transfer from the Host Diatom Enables Fast Growth and High Rate of N2 Fixation by Symbiotic Heterocystous Cyanobacteria</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/carbon-transfer-from-the-host-diatom-enables-fast-growth-and-high-rate-of-n2-fixation-by-symbiotic-heterocystous-cyanobacteria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keisuke Inomura, Christopher L. Follett, Takako Masuda, Meri Eichner, Ondřej Prášil and Curtis Deutsch (2020), Carbon Transfer from the Host Diatom Enables Fast Growth and High Rate of N2 Fixation by Symbiotic Heterocystous Cyanobacteria, Plants, doi: 10.3390/plants9020192 Summary: Diatom–diazotroph associations (DDAs) are symbioses where trichome‐forming cyanobacteria support the host diatom with fixed nitrogen through dinitrogen (N2) fixation. It is inferred &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/carbon-transfer-from-the-host-diatom-enables-fast-growth-and-high-rate-of-n2-fixation-by-symbiotic-heterocystous-cyanobacteria/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Carbon Transfer from the Host Diatom Enables Fast Growth and High Rate of N2 Fixation by Symbiotic Heterocystous Cyanobacteria</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin Goes to Ocean Sciences 2020</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/darwin-goes-to-ocean-sciences-2020/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look out for the Darwin team, sharing their work at this year’s Ocean Sciences conference taking place February 16-21 in San Diego, California. Stephanie Dutkiewicz* and Christopher L. Follett, The Collapse of Prochlorococcus Populations in the Transition Between the Subtropical and Subpolar Gyres (Monday, 08:15 &#8211; 08:30, SDCC &#8211; 7A, UL) Darcy Taniguchi, Michael J Follows and Susanne Menden-Deuer, A modeling approach to determine how &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/darwin-goes-to-ocean-sciences-2020/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Darwin Goes to Ocean Sciences 2020</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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