Category: travels

• Johnson Lab presents at Ocean Sciences 2014

  The Johnson Lab presented recent research at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2014 in Honolulu. One poster highlighted data from recent POWOW cruises. Specifically, it was an analysis of the primary production data collected in January and July 2013. The title of the poster was “Magnitude and Regulation of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus Primary Production in the…

  February 28, 2014

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• ZIJ visits Elkem silicon plant to plan use of algae to capture CO2

  ZIJ visited the Elkem Salten silicon plant in Norway to explore the use of microalgae to capture carbon dioxide.  The Elkem plant uses coal and coke along with electrical power to produce various forms of silicon and silica of use in many commercial applications. In the process, the plant releases a substantial amount of carbon…

  November 6, 2013

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• REU David Hurley presents at CERF Conference

  Summer 2013 REU student David Hurley presented his research at the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) 2013 meeting in San Diego. His 10-week research project focused on quantifying how increasing temperatures will affect the carbon uptake and allocation of phytoplankton and he used Prochlorococcus as a model organism.  An abstract is listed below: Oligotrophic…

  November 3, 2013

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