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Oceanic Protists

extraordinary species diversity and variety of interactions of protists in the sea are only now being fully appreciated. Figure 1 shows representative examples of marine protists, and of methods used to visualize these microbes. Protists can be autotrophic or heterotrophic. The former, also called microscopic algae, contain chloroplasts, thrive by photosynthesis, and are at the base of all ocea...

SA election gamers record turnout

Mazel tov! Rice will offer a new minor in Jewish s tud ies beg inn ing this fall. The minor, which was approved by the Faculty Sena te last week, is the start of a long-term effort to bring a ful l-f ledged Jewish s tud ies program to Rice. Professor of Judaic Studies Gregory Kaplan, a long with Professor in Biblical Studies Matthais Henze, both members of the Religious Studies Depar tment , sp...

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*Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico; †Centro Latinoamericano de Enfermedades de Transmisión Sexual (CLETS), Department of Health, San Juan, Puerto Rico; ‡Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico; §National Development and Research I...

Oceanic methane biogeochemistry.

Measurements of dissolved methane in the ocean have been available for only about 50 years. Methane measurements in sediments, where concentrations are millimolar, were first reported in the mid-1950s, while measurements of methane in ocean waters, where concentrations are nanomolar, were first reported in the late 1960s. Methane is the most abundant hydrocarbon in the atmosphere, where it play...