Dr. Karen Lloyd
Wrigley Chair in Environmental Studies and Professor of Earth Sciences
and Marine and Environmental Biology, USC

In situ measurements of aerobic methane oxidation in the deep-sea z
(and also a lake because we had a pandemic)

Tuesday, January 14
11:30 AM
AHF 153 (Torrey Webb Room)

Abstract: The deep-sea is a massive sink for the greenhouse gas methane through the aerobic oxidation of methane. However, the rates at which methane is oxidized in the deep-sea and the biological processes involved are difficult to determine because the gases and the biological communities change greatly upon retrieval onto the ship. Here, I will present our new method for making methane oxidation rate measurements in situ, as well as suggest novel roles for methanotrophs in the deep-sea that we have found from this work.