Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100636

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE160100636

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The role of marine microbes in the global carbon cycle. This project aims to unravel microbiological processes in the ocean to help quantify the ecosystem services carried out by microbes that support our economy and environment. By recycling vital nutrients, microbes form the basis of the marine food web. In Australia, their contributions support fisheries worth $4.2 billion. Their role in carbon cycling also controls our climate. Yet, their direct productivity remains unquantified. Technical limitations have restricted our ability to identify the key microbes most responsible for ocean carbon cycling, and to measure their impact. This project plans to combine new approaches in microfluidics, chemistry and oceanography to quantify carbon uptake by individual microbes and provide new understanding of microbe-mediated chemical cycling processes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 29-06-2016

End Date: 28-06-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $376,300.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Microbial Ecology | Biological Oceanography | Chemical Oceanography | Microbiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water in Marine Environments | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological Oceanography | Chemical Oceanography | Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Microbial Ecology | Microbiology | Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water in Marine Environments

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