Justin D. Liefer, Angelicque E. White, Zoe V. Finkel, Andrew J. Irwin, Mathilde Dugenneb, Keisuke Inomura, François Ribalet, E. Virginia Armbrust, David M. Karl, Matthew H. Fyfe, Christopher M. Brown, and Michael J. Follows (2024), Latitudinal patterns in ocean C:N:P reflect phytoplankton acclimation and macromolecular composition, PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2404460121 Continue reading Latitudinal patterns in ocean C:N:P reflect phytoplankton acclimation and macromolecular composition
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Like ancient mariners, ancestors of Prochlorococcus microbes rode out to sea on exoskeleton particles
A new study shows the carbon-capturing phytoplankton colonized the ocean by rafting on particles of chitin. Continue reading Like ancient mariners, ancestors of Prochlorococcus microbes rode out to sea on exoskeleton particles
Daniel Muratore, Angela K. Boysen, Matthew J. Harke, Kevin W. Becker, John R. Casey et al (2022), Complex marine microbial communities partition metabolism of scarce resources over the diel cycle, Nature Ecology & Evolution, doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01606-w Continue reading Complex marine microbial communities partition metabolism of scarce resources over the diel cycle
Lauren W. Juranek, Angelicque E. White, Mathilde Dugenne, Fernanda Henderikx Freitas, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Francois Ribalet, Sara Ferrón, E. Virginia Armbrust, David M. Karl (2020), The Importance of the Phytoplankton ‘Middle Class’ to Ocean Net Community Production, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, doi: 10.1029/2020GB006702 Continue reading The Importance of the Phytoplankton ‘Middle Class’ to Ocean Net Community Production
Fall 2019 MESO-SCOPE Meeting
Earlier this month, members of the MIT Darwin project hosted Benedetto Barone (U Hawaii) and Kate Evans (U Montana) for a week of face-to-face collaboration focused on advancing theory and modeling efforts geared towards exploring mesoscale and submesoscale marine ecological structure in the Subtropical North Pacific. Continue reading Fall 2019 MESO-SCOPE Meeting
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
Welcome to New Postdoc Zhen Wu
A warm welcome to incoming postdoc Dr Zhen Wu who joins the MIT Darwin Project as part of the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE.)
Broadening the ‘SCOPE’ of microbial oceanography
With an infusion of funds from the Simons Foundation, a collaboration Darwin Project lead Mick Follows and other MIT researchers and colleagues will break new ground in the study of marine microbes. Continue reading Broadening the ‘SCOPE’ of microbial oceanography