Joan Bernhard

Research Interests

• Benthic foraminiferal ecology and cell biology.
• Protistan-prokaryote symbioses.
• Microaerophilic and anaerobic protists from Oxygen Minimum Zones and methane and cold seeps.
• Biogeochemistry of redox boundary sediments in both modern and ancient environments.
• Culturing of deep-sea benthic foraminifera to ground truth paleoceanographic proxies and environmental impacts.
• Microbial communities of laminated sediments
• Sub-millimeter life positions of microorganisms in sediments.
• Application of various microscopic techniques (TEM, SEM, LSCM, NanoSIMS) to marine microbial ecology

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