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Melissa Booth, UGA Marine Institute Assistant Director / Research Scientist

« Please Note: Melissa Booth is no longer active on the GCE-LTER Project so contact information may not be accurate (see the GCE Personnel page for an up-to-date list of participants) »

Research Emphasis:

Ecology of prokaryotes, and their viruses, as well as microbial eukaryotes in marine and estuarine environments. Monitoring the influence of environmental conditions on microbial gene regulation. Linking gene regulation to microbial processes such as C or N fluxes. Investigating the activity of viruses across gradients. Comparison of freshwater, estuarine, coastal and pelagic microbial populations and functions to determine various regulatory mechanisms on population composition and overall population function.

Contact Information:

Primary Organization:  University of Georgia Marine Institute

Mailing Address:

Dr. Melissa G. Booth
University of Georgia Marine Institute
Sapelo Island, Georgia 31327

Office Phone:  (912) 485-2225

Other Phone:  (912) 485-2203

FAX Number:  (912) 485-2133

E-Mail:  booth@uga.edu

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GCE Publications and Presentations: (custom bibliography)

Books and Book Sections

Pennings, S.C., Alber, M., Alexander, C.R. Jr., Booth, M.G., Burd, A.B., Cai, W.-J., Craft, C.B., DePratter, C., Di Iorio, D., Hollibaugh, J.T., Hopkinson, C.S., Joye, S.B., Meile, C., Moore, W.S., Silliman, B.R., Thompson, V.D. and Wares, J.P. 2012. South Atlantic Tidal Wetlands. Pages 45-61 in: Batzer, D.P. and Baldwin, A. (editors). Wetland Habitats of North America: Ecology and Conservation Concerns. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.

Conference Posters and Presentations

Doherty, M., Booth, M.G. and Amaral-Zettler, L. 2010. Presentation: PYROTAG SEQUENCING OF THREE MICROBIAL DOMAINS IN A SUBTROPICAL SHALLOW ESTUARY NEAR SAPELO ISLAND, GEORGIA, USA. Marine Microbiology. International Society of Microbial Ecology Biennial Meeting, August, 2010, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Booth, M.G., Doherty, M. and Amaral-Zettler, L. 2009. Presentation: Microbial Tag Sequencing Survey of the Sapelo Island Estuarine Complex: Archaea, Bacteria, and Microbial Eukaryotes from Freshwater to Saltwater. Microbial. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Biennial Meeting, November, 2009, Portland, Oregon.

Doherty, M., Poretsky, R.S., Muscarella, M., Moran, M.A. and Booth, M.G. 2009. Presentation: Tracking Metabolism of an Important Terrestrial Carbon Source by Marine Bacterioplankton. 2009 Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Annual Meeting, November 2009, Portland, Oregon.

Booth, M.G. and Poole, A. 2008. Poster: Utilizing nasA and 15N-NO3- Uptake to Characterize and Quantify Nitrate Assimilation in Estuarine Heterotrophic Bacterioplankton. N-029. 2009 American Society of Microbiology Annual Meeting, June 2008, Boston, Massachusetts.