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Polar Hands-On Laboratory Faculty
Hugh Ducklow is the Co-Director of the MBL's Ecosystems Center. He is a biological oceanographer and has been studying the dynamics of plankton foodwebs in estuaries, the coastal ocean and the open sea since 1980. Dr. Ducklow has worked principally on microbial foodwebs and the role of heterotrophic bacteria in the marine carbon cycle. He has participated in oceanographic cruises in Chesapeake Bay, the western North Atlantic Ocean, the Bermuda and Hawaii Time Series stations, the Black Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Ross Sea, the Southern Ocean, the Equatorial Pacific and the Great Barrier Reef. Much of his work was done in the decade-long Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), which Dr. Ducklow led in the late 1990s. Currently he leads the Palmer Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research Project on the west Antarctic Peninsula, investigating the responses of the marine ecosystem to rapid climate warming. Although the research is primarily experimental and observational, it utilizes mathematical models and collaborations with modelers to gain deeper understanding and derive maximum benefit from the data collected. In collaboration with Dr. Alison Murray, Dr. Ducklow also leads an International Polar Year (IPY) project to examine the structure of Antarctic marine bacterial communities and their adaptations to the Austral winter.
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