Research project

Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS) - Lam - OES

Research groups:

Marine Biogeochemistry
Lead researchers:

Professor Phyllis Lam
Other researchers:

Professor Mark Moore
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Phyllis Lam

Professor

Research interests

Dr. Lam's research interest lies in the functional roles of microorganisms in biogeochemical cycling, particularly the nitrogen and carbon cycles, in diverse marine and aquatic systems. In collaboration with researchers inside and outside the university, her work integrates state-of-the-art molecular ecological techniques, stable isotopic analyses, process rate measurements, hypothesis-driven experimentation and modelling, to disentangle complex microbial interactions and their impacts on biogeochemical environments especially in the context of global change.
Current research topics include:
Shortcuts in the nitrogen cycle – novel pathways and microbial players for nitrogen remineralisation in the ocean’s twilight zoneMicrobial carbon remineralisation pathways and fluxes in the mesopelagic oceanUsing proteomics tools to disentangle active microbial nitrogen and carbon cycling processes in oceanic oxygen minimum zonesImportance of particle-associated microeukaryotes on the efficiency of oceanic biological carbon pumpMicrobial production and consumption pathways of greenhouse gases

Connect with Phyllis

Email: P.Lam@southampton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Mark Moore

Professor of Oceanography

Research interests

Marine Biogeochemistry
Oceanic nutrient and carbon cycling
Phytoplankton photosynthesis

Connect with Mark

Email: C.M.Moore@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Marine Biogeochemistry

We research the biogeochemistry of marine systems, both in the open ocean and in shelf seas. We take on societal and global environmental issues.

Research outputs

Iron cycling during the decline of a South Georgia diatom bloom

Joanna Jane Ainsworth, A. Poulton, Maeve Lohan, Mark C. Stinchcombe, Alastair J.M. Lough & C. Mark Moore, 2023, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 208

DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2023.105269

Type: article

Eukaryotic influence on the oceanic biological carbon pump in the Scotia Sea as revealed by 18S rRNA gene sequencing of suspended and sinking particles

Manon Duret, Richard Lampitt & Phyllis Lam, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography, 65(S1), S49-S70

DOI: 10.1002/lno.11319

Type: article

Prokaryotic niche partitioning between suspended and sinking marine particles

Manon Duret, Richard Lampitt & Phyllis Lam, 2019, Environmental Microbiology Reports, 11(3), 386-400

DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12692

Type: article