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A Healthy Ocean for Healthy People

A Healthy Ocean for Healthy People. Robert R. Bidigare HIMB. Photo by Brian Daniel. Objectives. Climate Change Research Prevention & Cure of Human Disease Microalgae Food & Fuel Production. Research Team.

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A Healthy Ocean for Healthy People

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  1. A Healthy Ocean for Healthy People Robert R. Bidigare HIMB Photo by Brian Daniel

  2. Objectives • Climate Change Research • Prevention & Cure of Human Disease • Microalgae Food & Fuel Production Research Team • R. Bidigare, S. Brown, C. O’Kelly, H. Trapido-Rosenthal , A. Messer, S. Rii, D. Elsey, S. Christensen, R. Barlow, L. Shinkoethe, J. Lyford & J. Nakaya

  3. Climate Change Funding • National Science Foundation. "Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE)", 1 August 2006 - 31 July 2011. $ 18,960,000 (PI: D. M. Karl; Co-Researcher: R. R. Bidigare) • National Science Foundation. "Collaborative Research: Hawaii Ocean Time-series: Biogeochemistry and Ecology Component", 1 August 2003 - 31 July 2008. $4,324,580 (PI: D. M. Karl; Co-PIs: R. R. Bidigare and J. E. Dore)

  4. Oceans & Human Health Funding • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Foundation. "Discovery of Pharmaceutical Lead Compounds from Marine Organisms (OHHI)", 1 September 2004 - 31 August 2008. $766,692 (PI: R. R. Bidigare; Co-PIs: T. K. Hemscheidt, and A. A. Yanagihara) • National Institutes of Health/National Science Foundation. "Core Facility for Culture and Characterization of Marine Microbes (COHH)", 16 February 2004 - 31 December 2008. $1,032,524 (PI: R. R. Bidigare; Co-PIs: M. S. Rappé and S. L. Brown)

  5. Hawaii: Staph Central Thornna kahuna

  6. Renewable Energy Funding • Department of Defense. "Renewable Bio-solar Hydrogen Production from Robust Oxygenic Phototrophs", 16 May 2005 - 15 May 2010. $324,857 (PI: R. R. Bidigare; Co-PI: Susan L. Brown) • HR BioPetroleum & Shell Oil Company. "Isolation and Characterization of Marine Microalgae for Optimal Production of Biomass and Lipid", 1 December 2007 - 20 November 2009. $1,970,000 (PI: R. R. Bidigare; Co-PIs: S. L. Brown, C. J. O’Kelly and H. Trapido-Rosenthal)

  7. HRBP-Shell Joint Venture: Cellana

  8. Research Highlights • Bidigare, R. R., F. Chai, M. R. Landry, C. C. S. Hannides, S. Christensen, D. M. Karl, R. Lukas and Y. Chao. 2008. Subtropical ocean ecosystem structure changes forced by North Pacific climate variations. Geophys. Res. Letters (in review) • Hiscock, M. R., V. P. Lance, A. M. Apprill, R. R. Bidigare, Z. I. Johnson, B. G. Mitchell, W. O. Smith Jr. and R. T. Barber. 2008. Photosynthetic maximum quantum yield increases are an essential component of Southern Ocean phytoplankton iron response. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (in press) • Benitez-Nelson, C. R., R. R. Bidigare, T. Dickey, M. R. Landry, C. L. Leonard, S. L. Brown, F. Nencioli, Y. M. Rii, K. Maiti, J. W. Becker, T. S. Bibby, W. Black, C. Carlson, F. Chen, V. S. Kuwahara, C. Mahaffey, P. M. McAndrew, P. D. Quay, M. S Rappé, K. E. Selph, M. E. Simmons and E. J. Yang. 2007. Mesoscale eddies drive increased silica export in the subtropical Pacific Ocean. Science 316: 1017-1021.

  9. Hawaiian Eddy Dynamics

  10. Research Highlights • Toledo, G., W. Green, R. A. Gonzalez, L. Christoffersen, M. Podar, H. W. Chang, T. Hemscheidt, H. Trapido-Rosenthal, J. M. Short, R. R. Bidigareand E. J. Mathur. 2006. Case Study: High throughput cultivation for isolation of novel marine microorganisms. Oceanography19: 120-125. • Cox, P. A., S. A. Banack, S. J. Murch, U. Rasmussen, G. Tien, R. R. Bidigare, J. S. Metcalf, L. F. Morrison, G. A. Codd and B. Bergman. 2005. Diverse taxa of cyanobacteria produce b-N-methylamino-L-alanine, a neurotoxic amino acid. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA102: 5074-5078. • Buesseler, K. O., C. H .Lamborg, P. W. Boyd, P. J. Lam, T. W. Trull, R. R. Bidigare, J. K.B. Bishop, K. L. Casciotti, F. Dehairs, M. Elskens, M. Honda, D. M. Karl, D. Siegel, M. W. Silver, D. K. Steinberg, J. Valdes, B. Van Mooy and S. Wilson. 2007. Revisiting carbon flux through the ocean’s twilight zone. Science 316: 567-570.

  11. Carbon Flux Dynamics in the North Pacific Ocean

  12. Future Directions • National Institutes of Health. "Assessment of BMAA Bio-magnification in SE US Wetland Ecosystems and Potential Risks to Human Health", 1 July 2008 - 30 June 2010. $374,840 (PI: R. R. Bidigare; Co-PI: B. N. Popp) - Pending • National Aeronautics and Space Administration. " Airborne Sensing of Ocean-productivity in Mesoscale Eddies (ASOME )", Co-PI Council: W. Emery, J. Maslanik, T.A. Moisan, G. Bland, M. Fladeland, M. Kahru, S. Brown, Z. Johnson, K. Richards, R. Bidigare & W. Dudley - NOI submitted

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