PRIMUS team members Dr. Gemma Kulk (PML) and Dr. Bror Jönsson (NHU) have recently attended the annual meeting of the Collaboration on Computational Biogeochemical Modelling of Marine Ecosystems (CBIOMES) Project at the Simons Foundation in New York City (USA), 25-27 June 2024. There, they presented two scientific posters to show the in situ primary production dataset from the Atlantic EBUS that was collated for project PRIMUS, and the results from using a machine-learning algorithm to estimate primary production both in the Atlantic EBUS and globally.
CBIOMES is a multi-institution effort seeking to characterise biogeography of key marine microbes at basin and seasonal scales, to ask how organismal characteristics and interactions shape these patterns, and to understand and quantify the relationship between biogeography and elemental cycles. To this end the team is developing models that represent key traits of marine microbes, compiling and interpreting diverse observational datasets, and formally combining data and models to map out microbial biogeography, interpret the organising principles, and infer large-scale biogeochemical fluxes. More information is available here.
Gemma Kulk (PML) and Bror Jönsson (NHU) presenting their work on “Using SHAP to understand a data-driven PP model” during the poster session of the CBIOMES annual meeting.
Gemma presenting her work on “In situ database of primary production in the Atlantic EBUS” during the poster session of the CBIOMES annual meeting.
Aspects of New York City (USA) where the Simons Foundation is based.