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EDWARD
DELONG (2014)
Dr.
Edward DeLong received his Bachelor of Science degree in Bacteriology at
the University of California Davis, and his Ph.D. in Marine Biology at
Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California San
Diego. He was a Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara in
the Department of Ecology for seven years, before moving to the Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute where he was a Senior Scientist and Chair
of the Science Department also for seven years. Until July 2014, he served
as a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the
Departments of Civil and Environmental, and Biological Engineering, where
he held the Morton and Claire Goulder Family Professorship in
Environmental Systems. He is now a Professor of Oceanography in the School
of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii,
Manoa. He currently serves as co-Director for both the Center for
Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE), and the Simons
Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE). DeLong is a Fellow
in the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Academy of Arts and
Science, the U. S. National Academy of Science, and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
DeLong’s
scientific interests focus primarily on central questions in marine
microbial genomics, biogeochemistry, ecology, and evolution. A large part
of DeLong’s efforts have been devoted to the study of microbes and
microbial processes in the ocean, combining laboratory and field-based
approaches. Development and application of genomic, biochemical and
metabolic approaches to study and exploit microbial communities and
processes is another area of interest.Currently, Delong is coupling the
use of autonomous robotic sensors and samplers with genomic technologies,
to derive highly resolution spatial and temporal maps of microbial
community gene expression datasets in situ.
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