Reading Materials

Students and faculty will read and discuss important papers relevant to each theme. These papers will be available before the beginning of the course. For now, we suggest students become familiar with the following papers (PDFs) that describe concepts or processes that will be emphasized during the course:

Nutrient Dynamics in the Deep-Blue Sea, David M. Karl (2002)
From genes to ecosystems: the ocean’s new frontier, Doney et al. (2004)
Microbial Community Genomics in the Ocean, DeLong (2005)
In addition, for familiarity with the oceanographic and biogeochemical signatures of the waters around Hawaii and the central North Pacific, please see A Sea of Change, Karl (1999)