News and Outreach: Stephanie Dutkiewicz

A new program to develop computational models of how marine microbes live and evolve in the global ocean has been launched to help researchers understand and simulate the relationships between climate change, marine ecosystems and the ocean carbon cycle. The collaborative effort is led by Mick Follows, and includes participants Penny Chisholm, Stephanie Dutkeiwicz, John Marshall and Chris Hill, among others. (More about the Darwin Project.)

Simulation condenses 10 years' evolution into five days of computing - Scientists at MIT have created an ocean model so realistic that the virtual forests of diverse microscopic plants they "sowed" have grown in population patterns that precisely mimic their real-world counterparts.