travels

As part of the Phytoplankton Of Warming Ocean Waters (POWOW) project, the Johnson Lab completed a transect in the Eastern Northern Pacific Ocean from Honolulu, Hawaii to San Diego, California.  The cruise focused on the diversity, abundance and activity of Prochlorococcus using a variety of techniques, but we also characterizes […]

The Johnson Lab departs today for an open ocean expedition from Honolulu, Hawaii to San Diego, California aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson, a major research vessel of the National Science Foundation (NSF).  The goal of the POWOW (Phytoplankton Of Warming Ocean Waters) research cruise is to measure the abundance, […]

Zackary Johnson and Yajuan Lin both presented in the Biodiversity session organized by ZIJ and collaborator Maureen Coleman from the University of Chicago at the bi-annual Ocean Sciences meeting held in Salt Lake City, Utah.  The title of Yajuan’s talk was ‘Estimating the growth rate and biogeochemistry of genetically diverse […]

The rocky mountains presented a serene backdrop for a meeting of the DOE-sponsored Algae Biomass Consortium held in Golden, Colorado. The Consortium, consisting of university and industry partners, has the goal of developing marine microalgae (phytoplankton) as a source of biofuels and other valuable co-products including protein for animal feed.  […]

ZIJ was invited to and presented in Kuwait City at the first annual American-Arab Frontiers of Science.  The meeting was sponsored by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) and its purpose was to establish scientific collaborations across different cultures. Nearly 25 […]

ZIJ visited Wolfgang Hess and Claudia Steglich (and Matteo) at the University of Freiberg in Germany. After a seminar we discussed various research projects on marine cyanobacteria, worked with folks in the laboratory, and then toured the town and enjoyed the fine local German beer!