Simons Collaboration on Computational Biogeochemical Modeling of Marine Ecosystems
by Christopher Follett for CBIOMES
CBIOMES Postdoctoral Fellow Chris Follett, is actively involved in multiple collaborations within CBIOMES working closely with other project investigators as he seeks to unify data and models through biogeography. Continue reading “A Focus on Fronts”
CBIOMES members please log in to access. Password issues contact cbiomesweb@gmail.com
by Helen Hill for CBIOMES
A warm welcome to postdoc Sarah Laperriere who joins Jed Fuhrman’s USC CBIOMES Group this month. Continue reading “CBIOMES Welcomes Sarah Laperriere”
by Helen Hill for CBIOMES
A warm welcome to incoming postdoc Zhen Wu who joins MIT-CBIOMES this month.
Reporting by Helen Hill for CBIOMES
The fourth Workshop on Trait-Based Approaches to Ocean Life, held August 18-21, 2019 at Chicheley Hall in Buckinghamshire in the UK was a wonderful opportunity for several CBIOMES members to catch up with former colleagues while sharing current directions in marine ecology viewed through a traits lens. Continue reading “Fourth Annual Traits Workshop”
CBIOMES members please log in to access. Password issues contact cbiomesweb@gmail.com
CBIOMES members please log in to access. Password issues contact cbiomesweb@gmail.com
Most of the viruses in the ocean are unknown, but scientists are working to fix this information gap. One of the ways to discover viruses is by sampling ocean water from different depths and then looking at those samples to find viral DNA and RNA. In this short video from The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Ocean Portal CBIOMES investigators, Jed Fuhrman and Julio Cesar Ignacio Espinoza talk about their work sampling for viruses in the waters off San Diego in Southern California.
Working in the Dark, directed by Brendan Byrne
As planning for the Simons Collaboration on Computational Biogeochemical Modeling of Marine Ecosystems (CBIOMES) took off in January 2017, one need quickly became apparent: a database with tools that would allow the project’s participants to sift through the mountains of oceanographic data collected from their own work and by other initiatives. Introducing: The Simons Collaborative Marine Atlas Project (CMAP) — an open database that merges CBIOMES data with publicly available datasets from satellites and sensors and, more recently, all the other oceanographic research initiatives supported by the Simons Foundation.
Understanding how marine microbes interact with one another and their environment requires a synthesis of empirical measurements, laboratory research, statistics, and modeling. To tackle this challenge, in July 2017 the Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division launched the Simons Collaboration on Computational Biogeochemical Modeling of Marine Ecosystems (CBIOMES), a five-year project that unites researchers at nine institutions in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. A key objective is to produce a global-scale map showing how the community of marine microbes changes over space and time. In their recently published annual report, the Division celebrates the power of collaboration in charting and understanding the biogeography of the world’s oceans. Continue reading “Charting Uncharted Territory”