UC San Diego distinguished professor emeritus receives prestigious international award for his groundbreaking discoveries on the microbial loop at Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of ...

Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature and the amount of sea ice. This is shown by coordinated measurements taken ...

Aquatic microbial communities form the foundation of biogeochemical cycling and food-web dynamics in lakes, rivers and oceans. Photosynthetic microbes such as phytoplankton fix inorganic carbon and ...