The NOTION project meeting was held at the MIO on Friday 7 October. Funded by the BNP-Paribas Climate & Biodiversity Initiative, NOTION uses a combination of laboratory experiments, oceanographic expeditions and biogeochemical modelling to infer the distribution and activity of diazotrophs in the future ocean under the impact of climate change.
As the project continues to progress, we were pleased to discuss early results, including the implementation of a species distribution model encompassing all diazotroph phylotypes in current databases and the implementation of single-celled diazotrophs in a ROMS-Biogeochemistry model of the Atlantic Ocean. In the laboratory, the experiments have been completed and we are now exploring the transcriptomic responses to simulated climate change forcings (temperature and acidification) on the physiology of diazotrophs.
Organised by Mar Benavides and Alba Filella (MIO-CYBELE ), we were pleased to welcome Lasse Riemann (University of Copenhagen), Maren Voss and Jacqueline Umbricht (Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research), Domitille Louchard and Jana Härri (ETH-Zürich), and Thomas Vannier (CENTURI