Category: travels
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POWOW3 cruise departs to study climate change
The Johnson team departed Honolulu, HI today on a 1 month research cruise heading towards San Diego, CA to study the effects of climate change on open ocean ecosystems. The research cruise is the third in a series designed to map and characterize key microbial populations in the ocean as a function of temperature. We…
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Yajuan Lin receives PhD
Yajuan Lin received her PhD in Marine Sciences and Conservation from Duke University. Dr. Lin’s PhD thesis title was “The Growth and Activity of Genetically Diverse Prochlorococcus” and her work focused on using molecular techniques to quantify the activity of specific ecotypes (genetically diverse, ecologically distinct types) of Prochlorococcus. Several chapters of her research are…
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Johnson Lab returns from successful POWOW2 cruise
The Johnson Lab returned from the a successful POWOW#2 Cruise. We traveled more than 5000 miles in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and dodged many major storms! The primary goal of this cruise was to measure the abundance, diversity and activity of Prochlorococcus and associated bacterial and viral communities across temperature (and other environmental) gradients…
Ocean Microbes Group 