Johnson Lab returns from successful POWOW2 cruise

The Johnson Lab returned from the a successful POWOW#2 Cruise.  We traveled more than 5000 miles in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and dodged many major storms!  The primary goal of this cruise was to measure the abundance, diversity and activity of Prochlorococcus and associated bacterial and viral communities across temperature (and other environmental) gradients to understand how climate change may impact ocean ecology and biogeochemistry. We also performed temperature shift experiments to experimental determine how changes in temperature affect Prochlorococcus and associated variables.  Six undergraduates from the Duke Marine Laboratory were part of the science team as well as collaborators from University of Tennessee Knoxville, University of Washington, and the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA).