Emma Wear

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Phone: (406) 872-4531
Email: emma.wear@flbs.umt.edu

About me

I'm a postdoc with Matt Church, working on a variety of projects linking bacterial and archaeal community structure and metabolic function. I am particularly interested in understanding how ecosystem-level events, such as phytoplankton blooms, impact the interactions between bacterioplankton community composition and biogeochemical cycles.

I recently took part in a month-long cruise to sample microbial biodiversity in manganese nodule fields in the North Pacific Ocean. To learn more about this project, and to see some awesome pictures of the deep-sea creatures we found, visit our cruise website:

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/18ccz/welcome.html

Education

PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017
MS, Coastal Carolina University, 2009
BS, Illinois Wesleyan University, 2007

Select publications

For my complete publication list, please see: emmakwear.com/publications.html

EK Wear, CA Carlson, and MJ Church. 2020. Bacterioplankton metabolism of phytoplankton lysates across a cyclone-anticyclone eddy dipole impacts the cycling of semi-labile organic matter in the photic zone. Limnology and Oceanography 65: 1608-1622.
MJ Church, EK Wear, BN Orcutt, CR Young, and JM Smith. 2019. Technical report: Taxonomic diversity of Bacteria and Archaea in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the North Pacific Ocean. In: DeepCCZ Biodiversity Synthesis Workshop Report, prepared for the International Seabed Authority.
EK Wear, EG Wilbanks, CE Nelson, and CA Carlson. 2018. Primer selection impacts specific population abundances but not community dynamics in a monthly time-series 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis of coastal marine bacterioplankton. Environmental Microbiology 20: 2709-2726.
EK Wear, CA Carlson, LA Windecker, and MA Brzezinski. 2015. Roles of diatom nutrient stress and species identity in determining the short- and long-term bioavailability of diatom exudates to bacterioplankton. Marine Chemistry 177: 335-348.
EK Wear, CA Carlson, AK James, MA Brzezinski, LA Windecker, and CE Nelson. 2015. Synchronous shifts in dissolved organic carbon bioavailability and bacterial community responses over the course of an upwelling-driven phytoplankton bloom. Limnology and Oceanography 60: 657-677.