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Temat: For Graduate Student, Research Is a Gas
...Ph.D. co-advisor, WHOI marine chemist Dierdre Toole, Levine is now studying dimethylsulfide, or DMS, a naturally produced gas that influences Earth’s climate. It encourages the formation of clouds that reflect solar radiation back into space and, as a result, cool the Earth’s surface. DMS is made from a larger chemical compound called dimethylsulfoniopropionate, or DMSP, which is made by tiny marine plants, or phytoplankton. Levine’s research focuses on how DMSP is broken down by bacteria and other phytoplankton to form the DMS that eventually gets into the atmosphere. (See DMS: The Climate Gas You've Never Heard Of.) In 2007, Levine went on seven 5-to-10-day research cruises from Bermuda to the Sargasso Sea, where she measured DMS concentrations and the rates of DMS formation. She will do 10 more cruises in 2008. She developed a method to measure the activity of bacterial enzymes that break down DMSP into...
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