Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology

Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
71 Dudley Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: (732) 932-6555
Fax: (732) 932-4083

Funded Projects

IRES: Molecular Ecology and Evolution of Marine Photosynthetic Organisms [NSF]
Airborne Lidar Induced Fluorescence Transient (LIFT) Method for Measuring
Photosynthetic Performance and Primary Productivity in Terrestrial Ecosystems [NASA]

Analysis of Biophysical, Optical and Genetic Diversity of DoD Coral Reef Communities [DoD: SERDP]
Biocomplexity: The Evolution and Radiation of Eucaryotic Phytoplankton Taxa (EREUPT) [NSF:OCE]
Cryptic Protease Genes and the Triggers for Cell Death [NIH]
The Distribution Structure and Function of Green Fluorescent Proteins from Cnidarians [ONR] Establishing and Improving a Traceable, Time-dependent Primary Production Algorithm for Generating NASA Standard Ocean Productivity Data Products from Satellite Measurements of Ocean Color (Ocean Primary Productivity Res.) [NASA]

Examination of the autocatalytic cell death machinery in marine, planktonic photoautotrophs [NSF]

Fluorescent-Based Diagnostic of Iron Limitation for Analysis of Natural Phytoplankton Communities [NSF:OCE]
Infrared Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometry (IR-FRR) for Detection and Characterization of Photosynthetic Bacteria in Deep-Sea Vents [NSF:OCE]

Impacts of Eddies and mixing on plankton community structure and biogeochemical cycling in the Sargasso Sea [NSF]
Inorganic Carbon Cycling Between Photosynthetic Marine Micro-organisms & the Marine Environment [US-Israel BSF]

Metabolic and genetic characterizaion of microorganisms encased in ancient, buried Antarctic Ice [Moore Foundation]
Molecular Bases and Photobiological Consequences
of Light Intensity Adaptation in Photosynthetic Organisms [DOE]
National Center for Research on Carbon Sequestration in the Ocean [LBNL; DOE]

Natural Iron Fertilization in the ocean and its impacts on ocean nitrogen fixation and carbon cycles [NASA]
Processes Affecting the Variability of Fluorescence Signals from Benthic Targets
in Shallow Waters (CoBOP) [ONR]
Real-time Biophysical Assessment of Iron Limitation of Phytoplankton Photosynthesis in the Open Waters of the Antarctic Ocean (SoFeX) [NSF:OCE]
Representing Key Phytoplankton Groups in Ocean Carbon Cycle Models [NASA-Synthesis & Modeling Program.; JGOFS]
U.S. - Czech Republic Collaborative Study on Photoacclimation in Phytoplankton for Remote Sensing Applications [NSF:INT-EEP]

Using remote sensing and ocean oxygen measurements to constrain carbon fluxes in the Southern Ocean [NASA]

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Contact email: ivy@imcs.rutgers.edu

Last updated: January 2006