{"id":64,"date":"2019-07-30T18:34:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/science.umces.edu\/science-at-sea\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2019-07-31T15:14:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:14:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/science.umces.edu\/science-at-sea\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umces.edu\/\">University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science<\/a>-led research cruise leaves for the deep Atlantic Ocean 50 miles southeast of Bermuda on August 5 for a week of science at sea aboard the 171-foot R\/V Atlantic Explorer. Scientists are sampling the depths of the ocean and analyzing bacterial diversity and function to better understand the marine carbon cycle in the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team of scientists and graduate students are collecting water samples at different depths from oligotrophic, deep blue water\u2014every 200 meters all the way to nearly 5,000 meters\u2014from a fixed point in the Atlantic Ocean. The incremental sampling will provide a diversity of marine organisms because the community will change depending on the depths. Then they will use next generation sequencing tools to sequence the genomes of bacterial communities. Their goal: to understand how cyanobacteria contribute to the marine carbon cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ocean plays an important role in the\nglobal&nbsp;carbon cycle.&nbsp;Nearly 50% of carbon dioxide generated by human activities, such\nas fossil fuel burning, is absorbed by the ocean. Carbon&nbsp;moves in and\nout of the ocean daily, but it is also stored there for thousands of years. The\nocean is called a carbon \u201csink\u201d because it takes up more carbon from the\natmosphere than it gives up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team\nincludes Associate Professor Michael Gonsior, post-doctoral research Leanne\nPowers and graduate student Madeleine Lahm; Professor Feng Chen and graduate students\nDaniel Fucich, Ana Sosa, and Menqi Sun; and Assistant Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umces.edu\/jacob-cram\"><strong>Jacob\nCram<\/strong><\/a> and research assistant Ashley Collins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UMCES researchers will be joined by Professor Norbert Hertkorn of\nthe Helmholtz Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany and Shannon\nLeigh McCallister, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, and\nresearchers from the University of Delaware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is part\none of the research project funded by the National Science Foundation. Next\nyear researchers will be exploring what is happening in the Pacific Ocean and\nwhat the differences are between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science-led research cruise leaves for the deep Atlantic Ocean 50 miles southeast of Bermuda on August 5 for a week of science at sea aboard the 171-foot R\/V Atlantic Explorer. Scientists are sampling the depths of the ocean and analyzing bacterial diversity and function to better understand the marine carbon cycle in the ocean. The team of scientists and graduate students are collecting water samples at different depths from oligotrophic, deep blue water\u2014every 200 meters all the way to nearly 5,000 meters\u2014from a fixed point in the Atlantic Ocean. The incremental sampling will provide a diversity of marine organisms because the community will change depending on the depths. Then they will use next generation sequencing tools to sequence the genomes of bacterial communities. Their goal: to understand how cyanobacteria contribute to the marine carbon cycle. The ocean plays an important role in the <span class=\"readmore\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/science.umces.edu\/science-at-sea\/about\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.umces.edu\/science-at-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.umces.edu\/science-at-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.umces.edu\/science-at-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.umces.edu\/science-at-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.umces.edu\/science-at-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/science.umces.edu\/science-at-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/science.umces.edu\/science-at-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.umces.edu\/science-at-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}