Research:

  1. 1.Eastern Tropical North Pacific and Gulf of California

  2. 2.Coastal California

  3. 3.Hawai’i

  4. 4.Palau

  5. 5.Yosemite


News:

Fall 2012: Kelly Henry has joined the lab as a new postdoc, and we recently received funding from NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity for our work in Palau [link]. We also have a collaborative project on microbial ecosystem services funded by the Keck Foundation as part of the National Academies Keck Futures Initiatve [link].

Winter 2011: Our recently published work in PNAS shows that ocean acidification reduces nitrification rates in the sea. Press coverage includes articles in Wired [link] and Scientific American [link].

 
 

Microbial Biogeochemistry

There are half a billion microorganisms in a glass of seawater, and for the most part we have no idea what most of these organisms ‘do’ - what they 'eat,' how they survive, or how they interact.  We do know that the collective activities of these tiny cells drive global cycles of biologically-essential elements such as nitrogen and carbon, and that global biogeochemical cycles have subsequently been heavily altered by human activities.  The overarching goal of our research is to develop an integrative and predictive understanding of microbial ecology and biogeochemical cycling in changing aquatic ecosystems.