We are plankton ecologists who conduct hypothesis driven experiments in the laboratory, at sea and in silico to decipher patterns and processes that drive plankton abundance and distribution. Plankton make planet Earth habitable and are central conduits of globally relevant processes, including the carbon cycle. Our goal is to understand what makes plankton tick to predict their role in marine ecosystems now and in the future. If images seem particularly beautiful on these pages, they are most likely created by Cynthia Beth Rubin.
News
- Menden-Deuer Lab goes to ASLO 2025! - Last week, several members of the Menden-Deuer Lab past and present attended the 2025 ASLO Aquatic Science Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. Susanne, our fearless leader and president of ASLO (Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography), is pictured here, welcoming everyone to the meeting. She also presented a talk in the “Long-Term Perspectives […]
Plankton Drawing Workshop success - Cynthia Beth Rubin completed the second plankton drawing workshop within the Art-Science Collaborative with great success. Cynthia not only related foundational art and design information but participants engaged around plankton as part of the natural and human world (e.g. plankton as inspiration for industrial applications). Thank you Cynthia for continuing to make the invisible visible.