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.

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Latest Publications

Ashley N. Bulseco, Wenzhuo Yang, Julie A. Huber, Joseph J. Vallino (2026), Growth characteristics of natural microbial populations are skewed toward bacteria with low specific growth rates, Microbiology Spectrum, doi: 10.1128/spectrum.02193-26

Davor Mance, Diana Mance, Žarko Kovač, Shubha Sathyendranath, Anja Kovač (2026), The production-function structure of marine primary-production models: Marginal products, elasticities, and light–nutrient trade-offs, Journal of Marine Systems, doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2026.104275

Sing-how Tuo, Ying-Yu Hu, Andrew J. Irwin, Michael J. Follows, Zoe V. Finkel (2026), Phosphate modulates elemental and macromolecular composition of unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, Limnology and Oceanography, doi: 10.1002/lno.70475

Alexandra E. Jones-Kellett, Jesse C. McNichol, Yubin Raut, Jed A. Fuhrman, and Michael J. Follows (2026), The dynamic mesoscale sink and source niches for eukaryotic phytoplankton in a subtropical gyre, PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2608700123?af=R