Climate change and anthropic interactions with the oceans are making marine habitats increasingly unsuitable for marine animal life. Gordon Taylor, a Moore Foundation grantee at Stony Brook University, is working to understand the complex dynamics governing water chemistry through studying microbial life.
Microscopic life forms living in the oceans are an integral part of the chemical and biological cycles of the areas they inhabit by exchanging chemicals with the environment or using the chemicals present in their surroundings.
To understand the ocean ecosystems and their health, Taylor explores the way in which microbes use and exchange chemicals with the environment, with a focus on what happens at the interfaces between habitats.
Despite the wealth of knowledge researchers have already gathered, fundamental questions still persist about life forms feeding on inorganic and organic chemicals and living without oxygen, especially how they cycle nutrients present in the water.
Taylor's work was profiled in a recent "Meet the Researcher" feature in Scientia, a series of open-access publications covering issues in science, education and research.
Read the full profile here.
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