{"id":56,"date":"2016-01-15T00:13:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T00:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gso.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2025-05-07T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:37:54","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-56 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon 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Spring 2025.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/img_60292\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1273\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/IMG_60292-e1639500185374.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Image of our lab in front of our end of year tree decorated with diatoms!\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/IMG_60292-e1639500185374.jpg 1273w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/IMG_60292-e1639500185374-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/IMG_60292-e1639500185374-1024x858.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/IMG_60292-e1639500185374-768x644.jpg 768w, 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src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/LTER.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Scientists on a ocean research cruise pose for a photo on the deck of their research vessel.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/LTER.jpg 702w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/LTER-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/LTER-364x200.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/LTER-500x275.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2765'>\n\t\t\t\tLab members Diana Fontaine, Niki Lockwood, and Fran Webber participate in an LTER cruise in the Winter of 2023.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div 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We are interested in how those processes affect plankton community structure, function and productivity. Projects include examining the response of phytoplankton to climate change, understanding the relative roles of dispersal and natural selection in determining the structure and productivity of planktonic communities, and investigating metabolic responses to nutrient stress in phytoplankton. Students and postdocs in the Rynearson lab study organisms as tiny as bacteria and as large as Antarctic krill. We focus predominantly on diatoms, phytoplankton that generate about 40% of all primary production in the world\u2019s oceans. Study sites include local Narragansett Bay waters, the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern Oceans and many bays and fjords around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Latest News<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RynearsonLab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RynearsonLab<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Rynearson Lab The Rynearson lab focuses on understanding how plankton diversity is shaped by both ecological and evolutionary processes. We are interested in how those processes affect plankton community structure, function and productivity. 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