Microbe Dietary Preferences Influence the Effectiveness of Carbon Sequestration in the Deep Ocean

Credit: Helen Fredricks, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Benjamin Van Mooy (WHOI) deploys a sediment trap aboard R/V Neil Armstrong to collect sinking particles for lipid analysis. This study was a collaboration between WHOI, ETH-Zürich, and the University of Calgary.

« Microbe Dietary Preferences Influence the Effectiveness of Carbon Sequestration in the Deep Ocean

Credit: Steven Smriga, ETH-Zürich

Cells of phytoplankton (Phaeodactylum tricornutum, a diatom) with lipid droplets inside each cell, which appear as faintly yellow spheres.

« Microbe Dietary Preferences Influence the Effectiveness of Carbon Sequestration in the Deep Ocean

Co-lead authors Lars Behrendt (left; ETH-Zürich) and Jon Hunter (right; WHOI) aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong, sampling sinking particles for lipid analysis.

« Microbe Dietary Preferences Influence the Effectiveness of Carbon Sequestration in the Deep Ocean

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