Colleen A. Durkin

The paper observes solitary sinking phytoplankton cells in the mesopelagic ocean, showing they contribute to nutrient supply and seed banks despite being a small fraction of organic carbon flux.

The paper links surface phytoplankton communities to carbon export using genetic tracers and ocean color data, showing diatoms and photosynthetic Hacrobia predict POC fluxes.

This paper introduces a computer vision method to estimate carbon fluxes from sinking particles using allometric relationships, reducing human annotation time by 90% and matching chemical measurements.