Carbon cycling

…explores how the soil microbiome and carbon and energy fluxes respond to different substrate inputs, and how energy availability influences microbial community

Investigate how groundwater microbes and viruses affect carbon cycling. This four-year doctoral project combines environmental sampling, molecular analyses and computational interpretation of microbial communities.

…and community change regulate coastal carbon cycling, and whether healthy and degraded coastal ecosystems differ in how biodiversity controls carbon production, storage, transformation and release. The projects cover SCUBA-based biodiversity manipulation and benthic ecosystem metabolism (main supervisor Alf Norkko); temporal biodiversity change, novel communities and no