Jon Cole Email & Phone Number

Dr. Cole's research focuses on the interface between microbiology and biogeochemistry in aquatic ecosystems. In almost any system, microorganisms are responsible for most of the aerobic respiration and all of the anaerobic respiration. Thus, the production of carbon dioxide, methane, sulfide as well as the regeneration of other inorganic nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus) is largely due to the activities of these microorganisms. Cole is particularly interested in the biotic and abiotic regulation of microbial metabolism, energy flow and carbon cycles in lakes, rivers and marine systems.What Cole wants to know is, are fish, like the pike in the picture, made entirely out of materials that were produced in the water, or made from terrestrial organic matter that washes in from the watershed. From 2009-2013, Cole was the Reviews Editor for Limnology and Oceanography, one of the journals of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO). Cole served as President of ASLO from 2004-2006. In 2010 Cole was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; in 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU; www.agu.org/) and was elected into the National Academy of Science ( http://www.nasonline.org/) in 2014 Cole has been an ISI Highly Cited Researcher since 2003. Cole has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement for Science (AAAS) since 2001.In 2003, Cole was awarded the Ecology Institute Prize (ECI) for Excellence in Limnetic Ecology. The ECI prize is given in alternating years for Terrestrial Ecology, Marine Ecology, and Limnetic (Freshwater) Ecology. A requirement of this prize is to write a book. Cole’s book covers the roles that inland waters play in regional to global cycles and includes two chapters on this idea of terrestrial support of aquatic food webs (Cole 2012; Freshwater Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle

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