ZIJ was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Award for Research and exchange in Germany. The AvH Foundation is a foundation set-up by the government of the Federal Republic for the promotion of international co-operation between German institutes of higher education and leading academics from around the world. Alexander von Humboldt […]
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The Johnson Lab presented recent research at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2014 in Honolulu. One poster highlighted data from recent POWOW cruises. Specifically, it was an analysis of the primary production data collected in January and July 2013. The title of the poster was “Magnitude and Regulation of Prochlorococcus and […]
ZIJ visited the Elkem Salten silicon plant in Norway to explore the use of microalgae to capture carbon dioxide. The Elkem plant uses coal and coke along with electrical power to produce various forms of silicon and silica of use in many commercial applications. In the process, the plant releases […]
Summer 2013 REU student David Hurley presented his research at the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) 2013 meeting in San Diego. His 10-week research project focused on quantifying how increasing temperatures will affect the carbon uptake and allocation of phytoplankton and he used Prochlorococcus as a model organism. An […]
ZIJ presented results on the variability of pH and DIC at PICO at the 2nd Ocean Acidification Principal Investigator meeting held at the Kellogg Conference Center that was organized by the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry group. The meeting is part of an ongoing effort to coordinate efforts among ocean acidification […]
The Johnson Lab traveled to Knoxville, TN to work with our collaborators in the Zinser Lab (University of Tennessee Knoxville), on an experiment to investigate the carbon and nitrogen metabolism of Prochlorococcus. Using both traditional carbon uptake techniques through advanced metabolomics approaches, the experiment was designed to quantify how Prochlorococcus, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yajuan Lin received her PhD in Marine Sciences and Conservation from Duke University. Dr. Lin’s PhD thesis title was “The Growth and Activity of Genetically Diverse Prochlorococcus” and her work focused on using molecular techniques to quantify the activity of specific ecotypes (genetically diverse, ecologically distinct types) of Prochlorococcus. Several […]
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 […]