Our lab, with three grad students, joined our collaborator in the FL Keys to do some final sample collections. The trip was a little different in that we stayed at a small hotel near Mote Marine Lab rather than at the station, but the hotel is part of a diving facility so we could easilyContinue reading “Mini Field Work – Aug 2024 in FL Keys”
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Sponge-DOM project -field 2: Incubations!
Like last time, some video highlights below. Our 4th and final (for now) trip to Mote in about one year – we’ve accomplished a lot of field work in that time! This trip in January 2022 was focused on some further in situ sampling of sponges on Looe Key and a series of incubation experimentsContinue reading “Sponge-DOM project -field 2: Incubations!”
Sponge Microbial Ecology Aug 2021
Video highlights below. We had a lot going on for this last trip to Mote Marine Lab – in situ sampling and multiple land-based stable isotope tracer experiments. We had some weather challenges and technical challenges that limited our in situ sampling, but amazingly, the stable isotope tracer experiments were all completed! There was littleContinue reading “Sponge Microbial Ecology Aug 2021”
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 projectContinue reading “NSF award to study sponge-derive DOM”
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