Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2023
Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2023 Our lab group and the new School of Ocean Futures were represented at the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, from June 4-9, 2023. Since the COVID-19 pandemic,...
PhD student position available in new NSF project: “Zooplankton mediation of particle flux” in collaboration with Leocadio Blanco-Bercial and Amy Maas, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
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.
2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting
We were at the 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting, which took place in San Diego, CA this past February. Kassie gave a talk on her latest paper, showcasing her results on the microbial communities that grow on different types of microplastics in the Caribbean Sea (check out...
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...
We were at the 2019 Aquatic Sciences Meeting!
This past February the lab showcased their research at ASLO's 2019 Aquatic Sciences Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Dr. Neuer presented a poster on results of optical (satellite and drone derived) data from one of Arizona's water reservoirs, Saguaro Lake. Kassandra...
“Priming the ocean’s carbon pump”
Our research on the aggregation of marine picophytoplankton was acknowledged and described on a featured article in the March 2019 issue of ASU's "Thrive" magazine. The article was also featured in ASU Now and on ASU's homepage! Click here to access the article ...
The Neuer Lab in ASU news!
The Neuer group’s latest achievement has been featured in a Biodesign Institute news story and on ASU Now, as the first laboratory group to receive a research grant in the new Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics. This center’s mission involves the study of...
The Neuer Lab goes abroad in collaboration with USAID and STRI
Neuer Lab graduate students Kassandra Dudek and Bianca Cruz have recently taken off to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Bocas Del Toro, Panama to conduct research on microplastics -- a category of anthropogenic pollutants of ever-increasing concern. The...