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.

We will study the role that planktonic animals such as copepods, krill and diverse pelagic mollusks, salps and even protistan grazers have in particle formation in the ocean. This question is important for our understanding of the oceanic ‘biological carbon pump’, the export of dissolved and particulate organic carbon to the deep ocean, which is a significant driver of the atmospheric carbon uptake by the oceans.