Abstract
The Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) programme has been tracking microbial and biogeochemical processes in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre since October 1988. The near-monthly time series observations have revealed previously undocumented phenomena within a temporally dynamic ecosystem that is vulnerable to climate change. Novel microorganisms, genes and unexpected metabolic pathways have been discovered and are being integrated into our evolving ecological paradigms. Continued research, including higher-frequency observations and at-sea experimentation, will help to provide a comprehensive scientific understanding of microbial processes in the largest biome on Earth.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 699-713 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Nature Reviews Microbiology |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 11 2014 |
Funding
The authors acknowledge the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for sustained support of the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) programme (including the current grant OCE1260164). In addition, funding from the NSF to the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE) (grant EF0424599), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Marine Microbiology Investigator #3794), the Agouron Institute and the Simons Foundation to the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE) support research at Station ALOHA (A Long-term Oligotrophic Habitat Assessment). They also acknowledge the dedicated efforts of the HOT team, including researchers, students, postdoctoral researchers and staff, who have all made important contributions to the HOT programme.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| EF0424599 | |
| OCE1260164 | |
| Simons Foundation | |
| 3794 | |
