Marine microbes are central to life on Earth. Thanks to their unique metabolisms, they drive key steps in biogeochemical cycles that other organisms cannot perform.
Microbial oceanography studies how open-ocean Bacteria and Archaea function and how their communities shape biogeochemical fluxes. This work is inherently interdisciplinary, connecting microbial and molecular ecology with biogeochemistry and the physical transport of water masses.
Hot off the press from our group:
Microbial degradation of jellyfish detritus promotes phytoplankton growth in coastal marine ecosystems
(Tinta et…
Former postdoc of Gerhard, Dr. Marta Varela from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC), visited us giving a talk about the diversity and…
Two brand-new papers from our group are just out.
Rapid microbial production of long-lived dissolved organic carbon in the global ocean
(Cai et al.,…
Two new papers are hot off the press from our group.
From cells to reefs—fluorescent protein distribution reveals species-specific photoadaptation in…
We’re proud to share that Valerie de Anda and Maria Papadatou have joined the Environmental and Climate Research Hub (ECH). The ECH is an…
