Field work off the Oregon Coast

Our lab group routinely collects forams in the coastal waters near Oregon in collaboration with colleagues at NOAA, CIMERS, and CEOAS.

Projects include culturing on board the NOAA Bell M. Shimada, the Oceanus, and the Sikuliak and the deployment of sediment traps.

Graduate student M. Kelsey Lane is currently investigating the effect of marine heat waves on foraminifera and has collected specimens for microbiome and metagenomic analyses. 

Details on these projects coming soon...
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Select projects:

• Field research with living forams for proxy development, to study microbial/symbiont associations, and for biomineralization research.
• Barium in non-spinose foraminifera: culture experiments and proxy development.
• Laser-ablation ICP-MS method development projects
• Reconstructing upper water column hydrography using multiple species of planktic foraminifera (Post doc research)
• Electron microprobe image maps of the Mg/Ca ratio in G. ruber and N. dutertrei (PhD research)
• Carbonate ion concentration in the ocean (proxy development, PhD research)