Remember when you first heard about DNA replication, cellular structure and photosynthesis? That’s a lot to handle! Now imagine hearing about it for the first time in a language other than your mother tongue and that you are learning at the same time. This is the situation of some Hispanic teenage girls at a high …
The Duke Marine Lab hosted 20 international collaborators who met August 14-17 to present research and develop future research plans to mature the science of using marine microalgae (phytoplankton) as a feedstock for energy and fuel. Representatives of the algae biomass consortium include university labs (Duke, Cornell, San Francisco State, Mississippi, Hawaii, University of Norland), …
The Johnson Lab participated in Duke University Marine Lab’s annual Open House on Saturday, August 3rd. Members of the community were welcomed to Piver’s Island to visit campus and learn about the variety of ongoing research at DUML. At their station inside the Repass Center, the Johnson Lab explained their research on Prochlorococcus and the importance of marine …
The Johnson Lab returned from a successful POWOW3 cruise having traveled more than 5000 miles in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean on a route from Hawaii to California. The goal of this research cruise, the third (and final) in the series to study Plankton in Warming Ocean Waters (POWOW), was to measure the abundance, diversity …
The Johnson team departed Honolulu, HI today on a 1 month research cruise heading towards San Diego, CA to study the effects of climate change on open ocean ecosystems. The research cruise is the third in a series designed to map and characterize key microbial populations in the ocean as a function of temperature. We …
The Johnson Lab was joined by local science teacher Jeff Carr from Camp Le Jeune High School and participated in Ocean Sampling Day, which is part of a coordinated effort to characterize oceans from around the globe on the summer solstice. Our participation was part of an on-going ocean acidification time-series (PICO) in collaboration with …
Alyse Larkin participated in the Scientific Research and Networking (SciREN) event hosted by the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences at the Pine Knoll Shores Aquarium. Alyse shared her presentation, “Plankton Power: How Phytoplankton Shape our World,” with over 65 elementary, middle, and high school teachers from all over North Carolina and Virginia. The purpose …
Maggie C., a sixth grader at Saint Francis Xavier School in Utah (and Johnson Lab member in abstentia), is interested in math and science and in particular how things are interconnected. She used a series of randomly generated numbers to select a city, a university offering a PhD, a department, then a professor. All of …
Second-year PhD student Alyse Larkin recently participated in the “Invite a Scientist” program, which is organized by the North Carolina Science Festival. Alyse visited Mrs. Kathleen Marshall’s 6th grade science classes at Havelock Middle School where she spoke to the students about her research, how she became a scientist, and what she was like in …
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 …