CBIOMES Goes to Ocean Sciences 2026

Many from CBIOMES shared their work at this year’s Ocean Sciences conference which took place in Glasgow, UK, February 22 – 27.

Click on the talk title to read the abstract.

Missing talks: email: hlh@mit.edu

Title
Authors
A new look at colonial Phaeocystis bloom and sedimentation dynamics from in situ imaging
Manon Laget, Andreas Rogge, Matthias Wietz, Niall McGinty, Moritz Holtappels, Zoe Finkel, Anya M Waite
A satellite-based estimates of biological pools and fluxes of carbon in the oceanic mixed layer
Shubha Sathyendranath, Robert J W Brewin, Heather A. Bouman, Michael J Follows, Thomas Jackson, Bror Jönsson, Tihomir S Kostadinov, Zarko Kovac, Gemma Kulk, Osvaldo Ulloa
A trait-based conceptual model of coccolithophore calcification
Joost de Vries, Fanny M Monteiro, Christopher L Follett
Absolute Quantification of Microbial Eukaryotes, Bacteria, and Archaea: Taxon-resolved abundances of rRNA genes and whole genomes (~cells) per liter via internal standards or anchoring with flow cytometry, from amplicons and metagenomes with validations and application to long ocean transects
Nathan Williams, Qucheng Bei, Yubin Raut, Alexandra Jones-Kellett, Michael J. Follows, Jed Fuhrman
Advancing Marine Ecosystem Modeling for a Predictable and Sustainable Ocean I Poster
Stefano Ciavatta, Liuqian Yu, Jann Paul Mattern, Laetitia Drago, Marine Ecosystem Analysis and Prediction Task Team of OceanPredict
Advancing Marine Ecosystem Modeling for a Predictable and Sustainable Ocean II Oral
Stefano Ciavatta, Liuqian Yu, Jann Paul Mattern, Laetitia Drago, Marine Ecosystem Analysis and Prediction Task Team of OceanPredict
Beyond NPZD: How Heterotrophic Bacteria Transform Ecosystem Dynamics and Carbon Cycling in a Coastal Ocean Model
Jann Paul Mattern, Christopher A Edwards, Stephanie Dutkiewicz
BioGeoSCAPES: Deciphering Ocean Metabolism Through Interdisciplinary Science I Oral
Naomi Marcil Levine, Thomas James Ryan-Keogh, Sinikka T. Lennartz
BioGeoSCAPES: Deciphering Ocean Metabolism Through Interdisciplinary Science II Poster
Naomi Marcil Levine, Thomas James Ryan-Keogh, Sinikka T. Lennartz
Capturing the variability within the Particulate Organic Carbon Flux: A Bayesian approach
Pippa Edwards, Gregory L. Britten, Lauren Biermann, Lionel Guidi, Stephanie Henson, Mark Moore, Simon Ramondenc and B. B. Cael
Causal Inference for Plankton Ecology: When is it important to have a causal model?
Benedict Blackledge, Joost de Vries and Christopher L Follett
Chromatic acclimation shapes phytoplankton biogeography
Anna Hickman, Francesco Mattei, Julia Uitz, Louison Dufour, Vincenzo Vellucci, Laurence Garczarek, Frédéric Partensky and Stephanie Dutkiewicz
Coexistence of Photosynthetic Marine Microorganisms, Viruses, and Grazers: Toward Integration in Ocean Ecosystem Models
Paul Frémont, Stephen J Beckett, David Demory, Eric Carr, Christopher L. Follett, David Talmy, Stephanie Dutkiewicz and Joshua S Weitz
Combing thermodynamic-based modeling with stable isotope probing and genomics to understand substrate preferences and predator-prey connectivity in microbial food webs
Joe Vallino, Olivia Ahern, Julie Huber
Connecting the coastal and open ocean with BGC-Argo and BGC-equipped gliders
Robert E Todd, Yuichiro Takeshita, Daniel L Rudnick, Christopher A Edwards, Jann Paul Mattern
Delineating New Biogeographical Provinces of Phytoplankton Using High-Resolution ASV Data in the Pacific Ocean
Sangwon Hyun, Yubin Raut, Nathan Williams, Rafael Catoia, Jed A Fuhrman
Ecophysiological Modeling of Marine Photosynthesis
Mohammad Amirian, Peyman Fahimi, Zoe Finkel, Emmanuel Devred, Stephanie Clay, Andrew J. Irwin
Estimating marine biological productivity from diel cycle of oxygen and optical properties by the first array of Biogeochemical-SVP Lagrangian drifters
Marco Bellacicco, Jacopo Busatto, Giovanni La Forgia, Emanuele Organelli, Jaime Pitarch Portero, Giorgio Dall’Olmo, Daniele Iudicone, Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli, Bob Brewin, Vincenzo Vellucci, Guglielmo Lacorata, Federico Falcini, Rosalia Santoleri, Luca Raffaele Centurioni, Salvatore Marullo and Laura Zoffoli
Global Estimates of Marine Nitrogen Fixation with Ensemble Machine Learning
Hyee Shynn Lim, Nicola A Wiseman, Julie Robidart, Christopher L Follett, Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo, Fanny M Monteiro
Metagenomics combined with stable isotope probing link novel viral genomic diversity to biogeochemical cycling
Elaine Luo, Ngoc Dung Pham, TJ Rogers, Bayleigh Benner, Joseph John Vallino, Gareth George Trubl, Julie A Huber
Modelling the biogeography of marine phytoplankton: redesigning with the help of ‘omics and optical observations
Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Yubin Raut
Nutrient Colimitation of Marine Microbes: Exploring Cellular- to Ecosystem-Level Effects I Poster
Katherine Helliwell, Erin Marie Bertrand, Noelle Held, Mark Moore, Ana C Franco
Observations of biophysical dynamics in the Mediterranean Sea from the first array of Biogeochemical-SVP drifters
Jacopo Busatto, Giovanni La Forgia, Emanuele Organelli, Giorgio Dall’Olmo, Daniele Iudicone, Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli, Vincenzo Vellucci, Bob Brewin, Milena Menna, Maristella Berta, Guglielmo Lacorata, Federico Falcini, Salvatore Marullo, Rosalia Santoleri, Laura Zoffoli, Luca Raffaele Centurioni and Marco Bellacicco
Picturing phytoplankton distributions in a changing Arctic Ocean
Charlie Guffens, Claire Mahaffey, Louisa Norman, Joanne Hopkins, Christopher L Follett
Prochlorococcus with Phycobilisomes Bridge Divergent Light-Harvesting Systems
Natalie Ann Kellogg, Alex D. Roberts, Vanessa Braun, Francois Ribalet, Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel, Gabrielle Rocap
Regional Oceanographic Controls on Pelagic Nitrogen Fixation in Northern Australian Waters
Douglas G Capone, Ajit Subramaniam, Yubin Raut, Joseph Peter Montoya, Miles Furnas, Margaret R Mullholland, Edward J Carpenter, Joseph Montoya
Shelf-Break to Open Ocean: Physical Drivers of Blue Whale Offshore Foraging
Amanda Vanegas Ledesma, Leif N Thomas, James Fahlbusch, David Cade, Jeremy A Goldbogen, John Phillip Ryan, Christopher A Edwards, John Calambokidis
Statistical inference for mechanistic microbial systems ecology models
Gregory L. Britten
Systematic Influence of Tidewater Glaciers on the Marine Environment in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Insights from a 4-year Study
Claire Parrott, Jenifer Spence, Patrick White, Erin Marie Bertrand, Andrew Hamilton, Paul Glen Myers, David Didier, Terry Noah, Stephanie Waterman
The Biogeochemistry of Dissolved Organic Matter II
Sinikka T. Lennartz, Chiara Santinelli, Nico Mitschke, Thorsten Dittmar, Zhetao Tan
The competitive edge of Southern Ocean diatoms: photophysiological adaptations and the trade-offs for iron and light
Lewis Wrightson, Christopher L Follett, Adrian Marchetti, William G. Sunda, Brittany N Zepernick, Alessandro Tagliabue
The diel rhythm of intracellular carbon storage favors nano-phytoplankton over pico-phytoplankton in subtropical oceans
Zhen Wu, Ioannis Tsakalakis, John Casey, Michael J Follows, Joseph John Vallino
The Ecology of Molecules, and Why Diversity Matters
Thorsten Dittmar, Sinikka T. Lennartz, Sahithya Phani Babu Vemulapalli and Daniel Petras
Towards Next-Generation Biogeochemical Forecasting: A Hybrid Machine Learning-ERSEM Model
Deep S Banerjee, Jorn Bruggeman, Jerry Blackford, Gemma Kulk, Shubha Sathyendranath, Elin Meek, Heather A. Bouman
Trends in satellite-based observations of the ocean carbon cycle
Gemma Kulk, Shubha Sathyendranath, Meike Becker, Marco Bellacicco, Antonio Bonaduce, Heather A. Bouman, Andrei Chuprin, Javier Alonso Concha, Daniel Ford, Johnny A. Johannessen, Bror Jönsson, Lekshmi Krishnakumary, Tiit Kutser, Marko Laine, Mengyu Li, Joan Llort, Elin Meek, David Moffat, Are Olsen, Emanuele Organelli, Ralf Quast, Roshin P. Raj, Mayra Rodriguez, Shovonlal Roy, Roberto Sabia, Roman Shevchuk, Jamie Shutler, Valentina Sicardi, Kaire Toming, Tsuyoshi Wakamatsu
Unified data-driven approach to quantify Biological Production and Export in the Global Surface Ocean
Bror Jönsson, Shubha Sathyendranath, Gregory L. Britten
Unraveling Interactions Between Large-Scale Ocean Circulation, Biogeochemical Cycles, and Marine Ecosystems II
Jonathan Maitland Lauderdale, Yohei Takano, Yassir Eddebbar, Sophia Hines, Yumi Abe
Vitamin dynamics along the biogeochemical gradients of a large temperate estuary
Meriel J Bittner, Catherine C. Bannon, Elden Rowland, Gregor Luetzenburg, Erin Marie Bertrand, Lasse Riemann, Ryan Paerl
What is the oxygen concentration threshold where microbial communities shift from aerobic to anaerobic metabolisms?
Julia Huggins, Gregory L. Britten