The Johnson Lab of the Duke Marine Laboratory is leading an open ocean expedition from Honolulu, Hawaii to the North Pacific Ocean from Jan 10 to Feb 7, 2012 aboard the Kilo Moana a major research vessel of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal of the research cruise is […]
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As part of the IGERT in Cross-Scale Biogeochemistry and Climate (CSBC), ZIJ gave a talk at Cornell University titled “Using molecular tools to better understand the ecology and biogeochemistry of marine phytoplankton” The talk, part of the Biogeochemistry and Environmental Science and Sustainability seminar series, focused on the Johnson lab’s […]
The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies hosted a colloquium on “Climate Change and Species Interactions: Ways Forward” The purpose of the workshop was to facilitate the rapidly growing understanding of the links between climate change and biotic interactions and to help guide future research and application. As the climate continues […]
The Johnson Lab visited the American Society for Microbiology, North Carolina’s annual conference this past weekend. We made the long trek up to the big city (a.k.a. Raleigh) on Friday and spent all day Saturday learning about some great microbiology projects going on throughout North Carolina. The ASM conference […]
The Johnson Lab traveled to Knoxville TN as part of a planning meeting for the upcoming POWOW cruises. Working the project co-PIs Zinser and Wilhelm labs and joined by the Buchan and Campagna labs, who will also be part of the field projects, all with UTK, we refined cruise tracks, […]
Maria de Oca, a second year PhD student in the group, attended the BD Influx Flow Cytometer Operator Course at the BD headquarters in San Jose, CA. There she refined her flow cytometry skills including instrument optimization and quality control, single cell sorting and data acquisition and analysis. She will […]
The 2012 Marine Microbes Gordon Research Conference was held at Barga (near Lucca) Italy in the Tuscany region. ZIJ presented on the lab’s recent work on assessing the in situ activity of Prochlorococcus using rRNA-based approaches in a presentation titled, “In situ activity of a dominant Prochlorococcus ecotype (eHL-II) determined […]
The Johnson Lab travelled to Knoxville, TN to work on a joint experiment led by our colleagues from the Zinser Lab at UT Knoxville. The goal of the experiment is to look at the hourly patterns of carbon uptake and its fate into metabolites over the course of the day in […]
ZIJ co-organized a session on climate extremes and presented the group’s research on ocean acidification at the German-American Frontiers of Science held in Potsdam Germany. The meeting is co-sponsored by the US National Academy of Sciences and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and brings together young scientists from Germany and […]
Visiting Dr. Tatiana Ilyina of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg Germany, ZIJ gave a seminar titled “Temporal Variability of the Carbonate System in a Dynamic Coastal Estuary”. The talk highlighted recent work in collaboration with Dr. Dana Hunt on the temporal variability of pH, DIC and other […]