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Peter Jumars
 
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography
B.A. Biological Sciences, University of Delaware
POSITION
Director, School of Marine Sciences and Professor
University of Maine
Darling Marine Center, Walpole, Maine
COSEE ROLE & AFFILIATION
Participating scientist with COSEE-Ocean Systems
Participation with COSEE Network
January 29 - February 2, 2010
OCEAN-CLIMATE CONNECTIONS | Faculty/Graduate Student Collaborative Workshop
Darling Marine Center, Walpole, Maine
 
Peter Jumars
WHAT I DO
I am a benthic physical ecologist in that I like to study the interface between individual organisms and physical, chemical and geological processes. My interests extend to populations, communities and ecosystems, but are "unabashedly reductionist" and focused on mechanism.

My lab group and I strive to identify quantitative physical, chemical and geological constraints that can be measured or calculated in order to bound the rates of processes in which marine organisms participate. Current projects include effects of unsteady flows at low Reynolds numbers on phytoplankton, interactions between burrowing and digestion in deposit feeders with physical and chemical properties of sediments (with L. Mayer), and effects of organisms and their structures on propagation of sound in and near the seabed (with the idea of using sound to infer abundances, activity levels and behaviors).
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