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.