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DESCRIPTION:This Friday's Biology Department Seminar speaker is:\n\n\nAnne 
 W. Thompson\, Ph.D.\nPortland State University\n\n“Ecology and Dynamics of 
 the Ocean’s Invisible Forest”\n\nFriday\, March 1\, 2019\n4:10 pm Seminar b
 egins\nBiology 19\n \n\nStudent Lunch: Email Kristy Gonyer at gonyerk@reed.
 edu if you would like to go to lunch with Dr. Thompson on Friday at noon.\n
 \nAbstract: The oxygen in every fifth breath you take was produced by phyto
 plankton\, the abundant photosynthetic microorganisms of the ocean. These a
 bundant and tiny cells create “The Invisible Forest”\, an ecosystem that co
 ntributes to global primary productivity on the same scale as forests and g
 rasslands\, only it is invisible to our eyes. To understand how the Earth S
 ystem works\, we must understand the ecology of phytoplankton. The phytopla
 nkton Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photosynthetic cell on Earth. Pr
 ochlorococcus thrives in the vast warm and nutrient poor surface oceans far
  from land. Here\, we present the results of oceanographic field expedition
 s and laboratory experiments that examine how genetic diversity and oceanog
 raphic factors control the contributions of Prochlorococcus to the ocean ec
 osystem.\n\nAdditional Biology Department seminars can be found on-line\, i
 ncluding links to some speakers' home pages at: http://academic.reed.edu/bi
 ology/seminars/index.html
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LOCATION:Biology\, Biology 19
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SUMMARY:Biology Seminar:  Dr. Anne W. Thompson\, “Ecology and Dynamics of t
 he Ocean’s Invisible Forest”
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