Field Work

Fieldwork for our projects takes place in a wide range of locations, including coastal North Carolina waters and the Neuse and Tar Rivers in North Carolina. Farther afield, we have ongoing investigations in the shallow sandy sediments of the Florida Panhandle, in the Gulf of Mexico, and more far-flung research sites in the North Atlantic in the Arctic, including Greenland and the high Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

Fieldwork enables us to apply new methods we have developed to investigate microbial activities and carbon cycling in a wide range of locations and under varying conditions. Many of our projects are collaborations with scientists at other universities and research institutions. We have ongoing collaborations with scientists in Germany at the Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (Bremen), the University of Oldenburg (Oldenburg), and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven). Other collaborators are at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Florida State University, the University of West Florida, the University of Southern Denmark (Odense, Denmark), and Auckland University (New Zealand).