We moved from Florida to Texas rebuilding our Phytoplankton lab in the BioSciences Department at Rice University.

  • 08/24: New graduate student Deron-Jay (DJ) Bakker joins the lab. Welcome DJ!
  • 05/24: Two new undergraduate students joined the lab! Excited to have you Rocky Ren (Rice Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow) and Joy Kim!
  • o5/24: Undergraduate award: Lab members Maia Figueroa and Radhiya Bharmal received the BioSciences Outstanding Poster Award for their presentation at the Rice Natural Sciences Research Symposium! Way to go!
  • 04/24: Undergraduate presentation: Lab members Maia Figueroa and Radhiya Bharmal presented their work at the Rice Natural Sciences Research Symposium: Effects of Elevated CO2 on the Growth Phases of the Red Tide Dinoflagellate Karenia brevis. Maia and Radhiya received an Honorary Mention for their poster!
  • 03/24: Graduate student Margaret Baker and PI Sven Kranz are part of the CCE-LTER P2402 process cruise, a 34day long research cruise to conduct experiments on ecosystem responses to marine heatwaves in California Current Ecosystem
  • 01/24: Several undergraduate students join the Kranz Lab. Welcome Sofia  Khoury, Maia Figueroa, Radhiya Bharmal, and Meghan Paral!
  • 02/24: Collaborative research from our group was presented by two graduate students from collaborative labs (Natalie Yingling (FSU) and Heather Forrer (FSU) at the Ocean Science Meeting 2024 in New Orleans! Nice JOB!
  • 01/24: 4 Rice Undergraduate students started in the lab to learn about marine phytoplankton. How EXCITING!
  • 10/23:NOAA awards $1.7 million to actionable research in the Gulf of Mexico! Led by PI Dave Chagaris, a large team of scientists will contribute  including our lab. https://restoreactscienceprogram.noaa.gov/projects/red-tide-and-reef-fish-modeling
  • Paper on Calcification in the coralline red algae: a synthesis was published, led by Sophie McCoy with S. Kranz as co-author. This paper was the result of a 1 week small international symposium.
  • 07/23 WE MOVED to Houston/Texas – Rice University
  • Presentation by Sven Kranz at ASLO 06/23: Photophysiological adaptation and primary productivity of phytoplankton from the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean under iron and/or light stress
  • Student let poster at ASLO 2023 06/23 Maggie Baker: Circadian photosynthetic plasticity in response to iron and/or light stress, investigated in two Southern Ocean diatoms
  •  05/23 New insights into the biological control of the carbon isotope signatures of ancient aquatic organisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(23) Kranz 2023
  • Student led publication: Our first BLOOFINZ artice is out! 05/23: Lateral Advection of Particulate Organic Matter in the Eastern Indian Ocean.by graduate student Kehinde Opeyemi.
  • Our Nature communications artice is out! 11/22: Phosphate limitation intensifies negative effects of ocean acidification on globally important nitrogen fixing cyanobacterium.  https://www.nature.com
  • 11/22: Publication: Application-specific optimal model weighting of global climate models: A red tide example.https://www.sciencedirect.com/
  • 10/22: We are hosting a new graduate student from the FSUCML (marinelab), Benton from Dr. Schantz lab and his UROP student in our lab to work on Karenia brevis related research.
  • 09/22: Three new UROP students, Angelique, Ava and Ben accepted our offer to join the lab! They will be working with Ana and Jared either on mixotrophy in Karenia brevis or on our Southern Ocean nitrate isotope project.
  • 09/22: A new student intern, Jacqueline (Penny), started in the lab and will be working with Maggie on Antarctic diatoms.
  • Publication 09/22: Taxon-specific phytoplankton growth, nutrient utilization and light limitation in the oligotrophic Gulf of Mexico.  https://academic.oup.com
  • 08/22: Our new graduate student Margaret (Maggie) Baker arrived!
  • Publication  05/22: Inorganic carbon acquisition by aquatic primary producers. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com
  • Publication 05/22: Earth system models for regional environmental management of red tide: Prospects and limitations of current generation models and next generation development. https://link.springer.com
  • Student led publication 02/22: Effects of spectral light quality on the growth, productivity, and elemental ratios in differently pigmented marine phytoplankton species. Bercel and Kranz https://link.springer.com
  • Publication 01/22: Prescreening-based subset selection for improving predictions of Earth system models with application to regional prediction of red tide https://www.frontiersin.org