Tiny organisms in the sea play a critical role in a natural cycle that affects global warming. USC Dornsife researchers discover why and build a computer model that predicts the rate of carbon transfer.
USC Dornsife graduate students mentor juniors and seniors from high schools near USC, giving them hands-on research experience and a taste of what a career in STEM fields could bring.
Her home state of Minnesota is about as far from the ocean as you can get, but her experiences at USC showed the sea was her true calling.
Biologist Eric Webb finds ‘sea sawdust’ makes harsh environments more habitable by turning nitrogen gas from the air into a nutrient that other organisms can use.
Doug Capone of biological sciences is awarded the DuPont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology for his influential research on the nitrogen cycle in marine systems.
Director of the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, USC Dornsife’s Katrina Edwards has received the prestigious A.G. Huntsman Award presented annually by the Royal Society of Canada.
