Jenna Balaguer

Postdoctoral Researcher

Project

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (Ocean Glow) led by Thomas J. Browning.
The overall goal of Ocean Glow is to better understand what regulates marine primary productivity through a deeper investigation of the natural fluorescent light emitted by phytoplankton.
My role in this project is to implement a novel facility of trace metal clean mesocosms to perform highly-controlled experiments and test the fluorescence of four, globally relevant types of phytoplankton under different nutrient conditions.

 

Latest Publications

Balaguer, J., Koch, F., Flintrop, C. M., Völkner C., Iversen, M., & Trimborn, S. (2023b). Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea. Current Biology 33(20), 4405-4414.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.086

Balaguer, J., Thoms, S., & Trimborn, S. (2023a). The physiological response of an Antarctic key phytoplankton species to low iron and manganese concentrations. Limnology and Oceanography, 68(9), 2153-2166.
DOI: 10.1002/lno.12412

Balaguer, J., Koch, F., Hassler, C., & Trimborn, S. (2022). Iron and manganese co-limit the growth of two phytoplankton groups dominant at two locations of the Drake Passage. Communications Biology, 5(1), 207.
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03148-8

Purser, A., Hehemann, L., Boehringer, L., Tippenhauer, S., Wege, M., Bornemann, H., ... & Wenzhoefer, F. (2022). A vast icefish breeding colony discovered in the Antarctic. Current Biology, 32(4), 842-850.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.022