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Full Name: Byron Crump
Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 541-737-4369
Email: bcrump@coas.oregonstate.edu
Affiliation: Oregon State University
Office: Burt 342
Research Interest: My research is focused on microbial communities in aquatic systems; mainly estuaries, rivers and lakes. But conceptually I place my results in the context of watersheds, and other “ecosystem-scale” units. This viewpoint is essential when working in open systems like estuaries and rivers where organic matter, nutrients and microbes are transported in and out by the flow of water. Like many other microbial ecologists, I’m fascinated by the linkages between microbial diversity (who they are) and microbial function (what they do), and I think we can learn a great deal about this by studying how and why the composition of microbial communities varies across environmental gradients and shifts with time in dynamic environments like estuaries, rivers and lakes.
Web Page: http://www.hpl.umces.edu/faculty/bcrump/stc.html