We recently gave a lightning talk about salps at the Seattle Aquarium. Click here to see a recording on Youtube and learn more about gelatinous organisms of all shapes and sizes!
Research in the News!
Our CCE biological pump researcher quantifies carbon sequestration by multiple different processes in the California Current Ecosystem
Congratulations to Opeyemi who has defended his Master's Thesis and published his first article in JGR: Oceans. You can read Opeyemi's paper here.
Congratulations to Taylor who has defended his Ph.D., Taylor investigated climate change impacts on larval bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Mexico. You can watch his defense here.
Filaments, pyrosomes, sinking particles and more. Our CCE LTER cruise sampled the biogeochemistry and ecology of California coastal and offshore waters. Click hear for blog.
Salps, salps, and more salps. We encountered a large bloom of salps on the Chatham Rise (New Zealand) and sampled it relentlessly. Click here to read the blog.
Research in the News!
Our L&O study showed that one type of giant protist can play an important role in consuming sinking carbon
"Erlenmeyer Waltz" (a dance video by Meagan Helman, inspired by our research) was accepted to the Dance Shorts Film Festival at Arizona State University.
Research in the News!
A series of our studies addressed the multiple roles of zooplankton in the global carbon cycle - vertical migration, fecal pellets, and flux feeding zooplankton
We have completed the Nancy Foster 2018 cruise. Lots of larval tuna found! Lots of plankton samples collected. Click here to read the blog.
Research in the News!
Our PNAS study addressing the impact of mesoscale fronts on marine carbon sequestration was highlighted in this news article.
With other researchers at COAPS, we received a $2.8 million grant from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative to study the impact of microbial communities that degrade oil
Research in the News!
Our GBC study showed that Phaeodaria are an important and overlooked part of the global silica cycle.
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Contact: Mike Stukel (mstukel@fsu.edu)
Florida State University
Dept. of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies
