Promoting a mechanistic understanding of the chemical currencies in marine microbial ecosystems in the context of a changing planet and through increased participation in ocean sciences
Mission
The Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) leverages recent advances in analytical and data sciences, incorporates new ocean sampling technologies and an open-science framework, and engages scientists, educators, and policy-makers who bring a variety of expertise, experiences, and viewpoints to bear on promoting a deeper understanding and appreciation of the chemicals and microbial processes that underpin ocean ecosystems and other microbiomes that affect our daily life.
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📣 Special thanks to our moderator Elizabeth Kujawinski (@whoi.ocean) and panelists Sonya Dyhrman (@columbiaclimate), Pearl Mitchell (@deakinuniversity), Marcia Macedo (@columbia and @woodwellclimateresearchcenter), and Mariana Rocha de Souza (@uhmanoanews and @internationalcoralreefsociety) for representing microbes 🦠 in the #oceanpavilion @cop30nobrasil in the only microbial panel at #cop30.
Microbes play key roles in climate. They need to be considered in navigating what happens next for our planet 🌎!
#policy #climate #microbes #microbialplanet #microbesmatter #knowledgetransfer #teamscience #scienceandtechnology
Are you @cop30nobrasil #COP30 and interested in learning more about microbes 🦠 and how they impact our planet 🌎? If you are, don`t miss the panel hosted by our Director Elizabeth Kujawinski (@whoi.ocean) and Sonya Dyhrman (@columbiaclimate) tomorrow (Nov. 19) starting at 1:30 pm in the #OceanPavilion!
📣 Microbes 🦠 are a key player & stakeholder in what happens next for our planet 🌎. Let`s make sure that we include them in discussions about a sustainable future!
Dr. Henry Holm is a postdoc researcher working with C-CoMP and the Dyhrman and Hurley lab groups @columbia @columbialamontearth. He is a chemical 🧪oceanographer by training and thinks a lot about how phytoplankton move carbon through the ocean 🌊.
Henry`s PhD research investigated how marine phytoplankton adapt their lipid membranes to a range of environmental conditions. Now he studies how phytoplankton may cycle carbon differently in future oceans that are hotter & more acidic using culturing and `omics methods.
#MTTM #oceanography #chemistry #chemoce #phytoplankton #labwork #fieldwork #lipidomics #genomics #culturing #carbon #carboncycling #futureoceans #oceanscience #teamscience #scienceandtechnology
C-CoMP focuses on tiny microbes 🦠 & chemicals, so it is easy for us to forget how vast our ocean is. Being at sea 🚢 is the loveliest reminder - there’s nothing as wondrous or humbling as floating in endless cerulean blue while receiving occasional visits from animals 🐦 🐬 🦑!
Thanks to Claire Garfield for writing this post and Natalie Graham, Irina Koester, Emily Hu, and McKenzie Powers for sharing photos and a video that help show the beauty of the sea 🌊.
#fieldworkfriday #oceanography #oceanscience #fieldwork #vastocean #beautyofthesea #marinemicrobes #phytoplankton #metabolites #primaryproduction #carbon #researchcruise #sargassosea #rvatlanticexplorer #teamscience #nsffunded #scienceandtechnology
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C-CoMP in the news
JANUARY 06, 2025
An abundant phytoplankton feeds a global network of marine microbes
MIT News
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
ASLO honors Elizabeth B. Kujawinski with the 2024 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award
WHOI News Release
JANUARY 17, 2024
Digital Microbe: A genome-informed data integration framework for collaborative research on emerging model organisms
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C-CoMP is a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center (Award # 2019589) that is based at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website are those of C-CoMP and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.