Bess Ward - About Me
My research concerns the marine and global nitrogen cycle, using molecular and immunological probes for marine bacteria and bacterial processes (especially nitrification and denitrification), and measuring the rates of N transformation processes. We have ongoing research on 1) denitrification in several suboxic zones of the world ocean (Arabian Sea, Eastern Tropical North and South Pacific) and in Chesapeake Bay; 2) the genes involved in nitrogen assimilation by phytoplankton and the diversity of functional guilds of bacteria involved in the nitrogen cycle of aquatic systems; 3) genomic studies of nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria.