The Olson Lab:

Plankton Ecology

Biology Department, Redfield 3-16

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Research Interests – People in the Lab – Current Research Projects – Related Web Sites –Contact Information

WELCOME to the Web Site of the Olson Lab of the Biology Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).

Research Interests

Plankton ecology, studied through the distributions of individual organisms; potential of flow cytometric technology to characterize the microscopic particles in the sea.

People in the Lab

Robert Olson, Senior Scientist, rolson@whoi.edu

Alexi Shalapyonok, Research Associate, ashalapyonok@whoi.edu

Welkin Pope, Graduate Student, welkin@whoi.edu

Current Research Projects

Coastal Mixing and Optics Experiment

Regulation of Primary Productivity in the Southern Ocean: Phytoplankton Photosynthetic Characteristics from Individual Cell Measurements

Microbial Communities in the Arabian Sea: Composition, Size Spectra and Growth Rates from Individual Cell Properties

An In Situ Flow Cytometer for the Optical Analysis of Individual Particles in Seawater

Photosynthetic Characteristics of Marine Phytoplankton from Pump-During-Probe Fluorometry of Individual Cells at Sea

Related Web Sites

How to contact Dr. Robert Olson:

Mailing address:	MS# 32, Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA 02543
Telephone number:	(508) 289-2565
Fax number:	(508) 457-2134
E-mail address:	rolson@whoi.edu

Funding for our work comes from a variety of sources including the Office of Naval Research, Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation.

If you have any comments or suggestions, please email acanaday@whoi.edu

Last updated March 9, 2001

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