Peng Lab in Marine Microbial Ecology

OFP Cruise 2025: R/V Atlantic Explorer at the BATS Site

Date: October 20-27, 2025   |   Author: Jordan Lehman

A six-day research cruise from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences to the BATS site, with CTD sampling, microbial filtration, OFP mooring work, and life aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Read more →

OFP Cruise: BATS Station

Date: October 2025   |   Author: Casey Burton

A first research cruise aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer, from loading OFP mooring gear and ship safety drills to sunset BATS casts, DNA-SIP work, microscopy, and shipboard life. Read more →

NES LTER Cruise 2025 onboard R/V Endeavor

Date: May 5-9, 2025   |   Author: Qintiantian Nong

A research cruise aboard the R/V Endeavor as part of the Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project. Read more →

NSF Early Career Chief Scientist Training Cruise

Date: August 25, 2024   |   Author: Xuefeng "Nick" Peng

A 2024 NSF-UNOLS Chief Scientist Workshop post about open-ocean fungi, from asking how many fungal cells live in a drop of seawater to collecting samples for microscopy, flow cytometry, DNA/RNA analyses, and culture-based experiments. Read more →

ETSP Cruise: Stable Isotope Probing at Sea

Date: November - December, 2023   |   Author: Birch Lazo-Murphy

A look at stable isotope probing work in the eastern tropical South Pacific, tracing carbon flow through microbial heterotrophs with CTD sampling, cold-room incubations, and lab-based DNA fractionation. Read more →

ETSP Cruise: Fungi in the Oxygen Minimum Zone

Date: November - December, 2023   |   Author: Madeleine Thompson

Thirty-three days aboard the R/V Revelle studying fungi in the ETSP oxygen minimum zone, from packing pallets and coordinating CTD casts to filtering seawater and preserving samples for cultivation and molecular work. Read more →