Who’s on board? (Part VI)

Mark Lever is a postdoc from the Center for Geomicrobiology in Aarhus, Denmark, with strong interest in anaerobic carbon cycling by microorganisms in the seafloor. His two main research goals on this cruise are to (1) link food source to identity in sulfate-reducing, methanogenic, and acetogenic microbes, and to (2) identify patterns in competitive/cooperative outcomes between sulfate-reducing, methanogenic, and acetogenic microbes in incubation experiments with one to four substrates. Through his research,
Mark hopes to create a better understanding of the importance of seafloor-inhabiting microbes in the global carbon cycle.