Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Exploring the consequences of microbial communications on bloom dynamics and nutrient cycling in the North Atlantic Ocean
| Term |
Amount |
Date Approved |
| 42 months |
$2,423,000 |
Sep. 2012 |
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Purpose
In support of investigating how certain molecules that microbes use to communicate with one another influence microbial interactions and nutrient cycling in the North Atlantic Ocean. The effort focuses on how "signaling" molecules influence the dynamics of laboratory cultures and natural blooms of microeukaryotic phytoplankton (diatoms and coccolithophores) in the ocean and thus how these molecules may have profound effects on the ocean’s elemental cycles in ways previously not imagined by the scientific community.
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