The Simons Collaboration on Computational Biogeochemical Modeling of Marine Ecosystems (CBIOMES) seeks to develop and apply quantitative models of the structure and function of marine microbial communities at seasonal and basin scales.
Latest News
New Study Illuminates Invisible Architects of the Ocean’s Carbon Cycle
In a cross-collaboration, multiple Simons Foundation-funded researchers team up to use genetic data and ecosystem modeling to simplify the complexity of marine microbes to improve climate predictions. (more…)
May 2025 CBIOMES e-meeting Paul Mattern (UCSC)
Bottom-Up and Top-Down Controls on Diatom Emergence in the California Current System: Insights from a ROMS-Darwin model Please note access to this page is restricted to CBIOMES associates. (more…)
May 2025 CBIOMES e-meeting Stephanie Dutkiewicz (MIT)
Exploring the advantage of chromatic acclimation in Synechococcus Please note access to this page is restricted to CBIOMES associates. (more…)
2025 CBIOMES Annual Meeting
June 16 – 18, 2025 | The Simons Foundation | NYC
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Latest Publications
Emily J. Zakem, Jesse McNichol, J. L. Weissman, Yubin Raut, Liang Xu, Elisa R. Halewood, Craig A. Carlson, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Jed. A. Fuhrman, Naomi M. Levine (2025), Functional biogeography of marine microbial heterotrophs, Science, doi: 10.1126/science.ado5323
Aditya Mishra, Jesse McNichol, Jed Fuhrman, David Blei, Christian L. Müller (2025), Variational inference for microbiome survey data with application to global ocean data, ISME Communications, doi: 10.1093/ismeco/ycaf062
Kovač, Žarko & Sathyendranath, Shubha (2025), Critical Times for the Critical Depth Theory, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, doi: 10.1029/2024JC021415
Stephen Blaskowski, Marie Roald, Paul M. Berube, Rogier Braakman, and E. Virginia Armbrust (2025), Simultaneous acclimation to nitrogen and iron scarcity in open ocean cyanobacteria revealed by sparse tensor decomposition of metatranscriptomes, Science Advances, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adr4310
Neill McGinty, A.J. Irwin (2025), Global Variation in Zooplankton Niche Divergence Across Ocean Basins, Ecol. Lett., doi: 10.1111/ele.70089