NSF award to study sponge-derive DOM

We have just been awarded a second NSF grant in two years! Our lab in collaboration with Amy Apprill at WHOI, Cole Easson at MTSU, and Craig Nelson at the University of Hawai’i, will be investigating how the sponge holobiont influences dissolved organic matter composition on coral reefs. This project started as a pilot project during my postdoc at WHOI, that work is now published and helped lead to this 3 yr grant, I am thrilled to see this work get underway!