Vol. 20, No. 2, June 2007
Special Issue: A Sea of Microbes

SECTION I. PROLOGUE

Chapter 1. Microbial Oceanography: Roots and Branches

• Foundations of Microbial Oceanography (192 KB pdf)
  by D.M. Karl and L.M. Proctor
  
  

SECTION II. IDEAS, CONCEPTS, AND PARADIGMS

Chapter 2. The Microbial Loop

• The Microbial Loop (308 KB pdf)
  by L.R. Pomeroy, P.J. leB. Williams, F. Azam, and J.E. Hobbie
  
  

SECTION III. TOOLS, METHODOLOGIES, INSTRUMENTATION, AND APPROACHES

Chapter 3. Sampling the Ocean

• Patterns and Prediction in Microbial Oceanography (716 KB pdf)
  by J.J. Cullen, W.F. Doolittle, S.A. Levin, and W.K.W. Li

Chapter 4. Genomics and Metagenomics

• Genomes of Sea Microbes (1.7 MB pdf)
  by M.A. Moran and E.V. Armbrust
  
  
• Marine Environmental Genomics: Unlocking the Ocean’s Secrets (372 KB pdf)
  by R.A. Edwards and E.A. Dinsdale

Chapter 5. Culturing the “Unculturables”

• New Cultivation Strategies Bring More Microbial Plankton Species into the Laboratory (308 KB pdf)
  by S.J. Giovannoni, R. Foster, M.S. Rappé, and S. Epstein

Chapter 6. In Situ Instrumentation

• In Situ Instrumentation (856 KB pdf)
  by J. Paul, C. Scholin, G. van den Engh, and M.J. Perry
  
  

SECTION IV. PROCESSES

Chapter 7. Energy Capture, Photosynthesis, Chemosynthesis,
and Proteorhodopsin

• Energy Cycle in the Ocean: Powering the Microbial World (2.2 MB pdf)
  by Z. Kolber

Chapter 8. Energy Dissipation, Respiration, and Growth

• Microbes and the Dissipation of Energy and Respiration: From Cells to Ecosystems (536 KB pdf)
  by C.A. Carlson, P.A. del Giorgio, and G.J. Herndl

Chapter 9. Microbes and Major Elemental Cycles

• What’s New in the Nitrogen Cycle? (232 KB pdf)
  by B.B. Ward, D.G. Capone, and J.P. Zehr
  
  
• Microbes and the Marine Phosphorus Cycle (452 KB pdf)
  by S.T. Dyhrman, J.W. Ammerman, and B.A.S. Van Mooy
  
  
• The Sulfur Cycle (552 KB pdf)
  by S.M. Sievert, R.P. Kiene, and H.N. Schulz-Vogt
  
  

SECTION V. EXAMPLES OF DIVERSITY

Chapter 10. Microbial Communities

A. Water Column

• Microbial Domains in the Ocean: A Lesson from the Archaea (232 KB pdf)
  by E.F. DeLong
  
  
• Oceanic Protists (232 KB pdf)
  by B.F. Sherr, E.B. Sherr, D.A. Caron, D. Vaulot, and A.Z. Worden
  
  
• Exploring the Vast Diversity of Marine Viruses (288 KB pdf)
  by M. Breitbart, L.R. Thompson, C.A. Suttle, and M.B. Sullivan

B. Polar Microbiology

• Microbiology in Polar Oceans (292 KB pdf)
  by J.T. Hollibaugh, C. Lovejoy, and A.E. Murray

C. Coral Reef Microbiology

• Coral Microbiology (700 KB pdf)
  by E. Rosenberg, C.A. Kellogg, and F. Rohwer
  
  

SECTION VI. GLOBAL SYNTHESIS, MODELING, AND PREDICTION

Chapter 11. Modeling and Prediction

• Modeling and Prediction of Marine Microbial Populations in the Genomic Era (568 KB pdf)
  by R.R. Hood, E.A. Laws, M.J. Follows, and D.A. Siegel
  
  

SECTION VII. FUTURE PROSPECTUS

Chapter 12. The Future of Marine Microbial Ecology

• Predictions for the Future of Microbial Oceanography (240 KB pdf)
  by D.L. Kirchman and C. Pedrós-Alió

BREAKING WAVES

RAPID: Research on Automated Plankton Identification (1.2 MB pdf)
by M.C. Benfield, P. Grosjean, P.F. Culverhouse, X. Irigoien, M.E. Sieracki, A. Lopez-Urrutia, H.G. Dam, Q. Hu, C.S. Davis, A. Hansen, C.H. Pilskaln, E.M. Riseman, H. Schultz, P.E. Utgoff, and G. Gorsky

DEPARTMENTS

QUARTERDECK: Solitary or Social? (64 KB)
by L.M. Proctor

FROM THE PRESIDENT: How’d They Do That? (64 KB)
by R. Spinrad

A TRIBUTE TO MELBOURNE BRISCOE (116 KB)
by R. Spinrad

RIPPLE MARKS—THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble • Cockles and Mussels: Alive Alive Oh? • It’s “Jellyfish Season” • These Fish Are Hot (700 KB)
by C.L. Dybas

FROM THE GUEST EDITORS: Introduction to “A Sea of Microbes” Special Issue (256 KB)
by L.M. Proctor and D.M. Karl

ROGER REVELLE COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE:
What Corals are Dying to Tell Us About CO₂ and Ocean Acidification (180 KB)
by K. Caldeira

EDUCATION: Teaching Environmental Sciences in an Evolving World (88 KB)
by M. Tomczak

HANDS-ON OCEANOGRAPHY: Phosphorus in Our Waters (196 KB)
by A. Paytan and K. McLaughlin

BOOK REVIEWS: The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss • The Equations of Oceanic Motions • The Gulf Stream (1 MB)