The Neuer lab team includes undergraduate, graduate students, and post-docs studying the link between plankton diversity, trophic dynamics and the biological carbon pump in the modern and ancient oceans.
Research
News
New paper in Limnology and Oceanography Letters on microplastic-associated marine microbial communities
Check out Kassie's paper on the prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities that grow on microplastics deployed in the Caribbean Sea: Microbial colonization of microplastics in the Caribbean Sea The paper was also featured on ASU Now, check out the article here
New Frontiers in Microbiology paper on TEP production by Prochloroccus and Synechococcus
Check out Bianca's paper on the production of transparent exopolymeric particles (TEP) by marine Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus: Heterotrophic Bacteria Enhance the Aggregation of the Marine Picocyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus
Summer in the Sargasso Sea
The lab has been very busy this summer with a lot of field work and new collaborations! This last May we worked aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer, in collaboration with Dr. Amy Maas from the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences (BIOS), with the goal of studying the...