University of South Florida
St. Petersburg, FL
Dr. P. Dreux Chappell at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science invites applications to fill a bioinformatics position investigating marine metagenomes and metatranscriptomes from samples collected in the Pacific Ocean in conjunction with US GEOTRACES Cruises GP15 and GP17-OCE. This project is collaborative with Dr. Sophie Clayton at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in the UK. Project Overview: The overarching goal of the project is to characterize phytoplankton realized niches and nutrient limitation status across the full latitudinal range of the Pacific Ocean using a combination of amplicon sequencing and metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analyses from samples collected concurrently with trace element and isotope (TEI) data on GEOTRACES cruises GP-15 and GP17-OCE (~1.25° resolution). We will use these field data to construct species distribution models (SDM) to infer the realized niches of oceanic phytoplankton, with a particular focus on...