Posts by Stace Beaulieu
Chlorophyll data published for rosette casts on NES-LTER Transect cruises since 2017
NES-LTER is pleased to announce our first data publication in collaboration with the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI): Sosik, H.M., T. Rynearson, S. Menden-Deuer, and OOI CGSN Data Team. 2021. Size-fractionated chlorophyll from water column bottle samples collected during NES-LTER Transect cruises, ongoing since 2017. ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/798bda0e9ddfeba20f2266e64cf4dd40 (Accessed YYYY-MM-DD) This data package…
Read MoreHands-On Undergraduate Research in Plankton Ecology During the 2020 Pandemic
New article highlighting undergraduate student Andria Miller’s research with NES-LTER postdoc Pierre Marrec and PI Susanne Menden-Deuer: “OCEAN EDUCATION • Virtual and Remote—Hands-On Undergraduate Research in Plankton Ecology During the 2020 Pandemic: COVID-19 Can’t Stop This!” in Oceanography (https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2021.104).
Read MoreNew article on seasonal variability in the planktonic food web of the Northeast U.S. Shelf
NES-LTER postdoctoral researcher Pierre Marrec and others in PI Susanne Menden-Deuer’s lab just published a new article: “Seasonal variability in planktonic food web structure and function of the Northeast U.S. Shelf” in Limnology and Oceanography (https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11696). Marrec et al., 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11696
Read MoreOur cohort of undergraduates doing NES-LTER research remotely in summer 2020
One of the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the NES-LTER project is that our summer undergraduate programs had to go online this year. Nevertheless, our cohort of undergraduates have still been doing research this summer, remotely, thanks to their dedicated and creative mentors/advisors and their own drive to learn. Meet them: Ayanna Butler is…
Read MoreNew article, model, and data published for eukaryote picophytoplankton at MVCO
Graduate student Bethany Fowler and co-authors at WHOI just published a new article in PNAS: Dynamics and functional diversity of the smallest phytoplankton on the Northeast US Shelf. They found that picoeukaryotes contribute more to the region’s primary productivity than would be inferred from their abundance alone. In addition to the journal article, the model…
Read MoreNew article on community composition and realized thermal niches of diatoms
NES-LTER PI Tatiana Rynearson, Sarah A. Flickinger, and graduate student Diana Fontaine just published a new article: “Metabarcoding Reveals Temporal Patterns of Community Composition and Realized Thermal Niches of Thalassiosira Spp. (Bacillariophyceae) from the Narragansett Bay Long-Term Plankton Time Series” (https://doi.org/10.3390/biology9010019).
Read MoreHeidi Sosik receives award for Rachel Carson Lecture at AGU Fall Meeting
We are pleased to announce that NES-LTER Lead PI Heidi Sosik will be presenting the Rachel Carson Lecture for the Ocean Sciences Section at the 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. Her talk is entitled “Observing Plankton in the 21st Century: Big Data and Big Surprises.” Heidi received this award as a scientist who…
Read MorePelagic fish data packages available online at EDI!
This fall Jaxine Wolfe joined us as an Information Systems Assistant to help publish NES-LTER data to the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) repository. Her first two data packages are now available online, both prepared to accompany WHOI graduate student Justin Suca’s recent journal article. The data packages, for pelagic fish diet composition and stable isotopes,…
Read MoreILTER – The International Long-Term Ecological Research Network as a Platform for Global Coastal and Ocean Observation
Article in Frontiers in Marine Science, published 28 August 2019, with co-authors Heidi Sosik and Stace Beaulieu: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00527
Read MoreOur EDI Summer Fellow developed workflows to visualize and publish IFCB data products
In summer 2019 we had the wonderful opportunity to host Kathy Qi (see photo) as an Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) Fellow. The EDI Summer Fellowship program sponsors undergraduate, graduate, and recent postgraduate students at a variety of host institutions across the U.S. with training in ecological data management. Kathy is an undergraduate majoring in Marine…
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