SCOPE team members Gemma Kulk, Shubha Sathyendranath, Lekshmi Krishnakumary and Mayra Rodriguez visited New York City last week (25-27 June 2024) for the annual meeting of the Simons Collaboration on Computational Biogeochemical Modeling of Marine Ecosystems (CBIOMES) project. There they presented on ongoing research into phytoplankton primary production that is also part of SCOPE.
CBIOMES is a multi-institution effort seeking to characterise biogeography of key marine microbes at basin and seasonal scales, to ask how organismal characteristics and interactions shape these patterns, and to understand and quantify the relationship between biogeography and elemental cycles. To this end the team is developing models that represent key traits of marine microbes, compiling and interpreting diverse observational datasets, and formally combining data and models in order to map out microbial biogeography, interpret the organising principles, and infer large-scale biogeochemical fluxes. More information is available at www.cbiomes.org.
