Marine microbes drive the cycling of the major life building blocks: carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus. 

Their lives depend on a dynamic mosaic of environmental factors such as light, temperature and nutrients. Such factors vary across complex spatio-temporal scales in the ocean: from cell-to-molecule interactions, through community succession and up to global distributions.

Each of these factors is studied by a different discipline (e.g. physical oceanography, genetics, organic geochemistry). Hence, understanding how microbes function needs a cross-disciplinary approach capable of integrating several disciplines.

Our goal is to BRIDGE the spatio-temporal scales at which microbes and resources interact in the ocean via the combination of different oceanographic research approaches.