Emma is a biological oceanographer who studies how marine bacteria and archaea consume dissolved organic matter (DOM), the molecules such as proteins and sugars found in seawater. She has a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is currently a postdoc at the University of Montana. On this cruise, she will investigate possible changes in DOM metabolism over the width of an eddy by setting up a series of experiments to measure bacterial growth. She will characterize bacterial use of both the natural DOM in the eddy and a concentrated addition of DOM from model phytoplankton species commonly found in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.
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