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About these Webinars: The ROLE Model webinars provide scientists with the opportunity to interact with educators and present their research in a non-traditional format - through multimedia concept maps created with the Concept Map Builder and presented through the Ocean Climate Interactive. [more]
About these Scientists:
Dr. Karen Orcutt is an Assistant Professor at The University of Southern Mississippi. Her areas of expertise are biological oceanography, phytoplankton molecular ecology, nanostructured probes, and marine nitrogen fixation. Her research interests are molecular ecology of marine microbes, genetic diversity of phytoplankton, marine nitrogen fixation, biogeochemical cycling, and nanostructured probes for nutrient acquisition.
Dr. Kjell Gundersen is also a biological oceanographer and an Assistant Research Professor at The University of Southern Mississippi. His research interests are net and gross community primary productivity and respiration, marine/brackish water cyanobacteria; abundance, growth and N-fixation, coastal biogeochemistry; C, N and P-cycling, ocean/brackish water time-series, automated observation buoy sensors.