Learn about CBIOMES’ five new research groups.
by Helen Hill for CBIOMES
With the generous renewal of CBIOMES funding for a further five years, the steering committee was looking for a way to retain select former postdocs as their careers saw them advance into junior faculty positions to begin building groups of their own. As a result, the Simons Foundation has generously made available funding to five prior members or former associates: Chris Follett (now a junior lecturer at Liverpool University in the UK), Sangwon Hyun (now a faculty member at UCSC), Jesse McNichol (now a faculty member at St Francis Xavier University in Canada), and Greg Britten (now a scientist at WHOI). Joining them is Sinikka Lennartz a faculty member at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.
Read on to learn more about each of the CBIOMES Scholar projects:
Phytoplankton productivity and community structure on the Northwest Atlantic continental shelf (led by Greg Britten/ WHOI)
Space, Time, and Plankton Prediction (led by Chris Follett/ Liverpool University, UK)
Statistical comparison of the ocean’s biogeochemical data (led by Sangwon Hyun/ UCSC)
Interactions in phototroph-heterotroph microbial communities (led by Sinikka Lennartz/ University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Predicting Community Resilience to Environmental Perturbations by Quantifying in situ Physiology of Microdiverse Subclusters of Uncultured Marine Prokaryotes (led by Jesse McNichol/ St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)