Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology

The Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE) aimed to advance our understanding of the biology, biogeochemistry, ecology and evolution of microbial processes at a representative ocean benchmark, Station ALOHA, located in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG), and at transition zones on the edges of the NPSG. SCOPE studied the ocean ecosystem in situ, at multiple levels of biological organization (genetic, biochemical, physiological, biogeochemical and ecological), to understand the pathways and exchanges of energy and matter between microbial groups and with their environment at nested spatial and temporal scales, from surface waters to the deep sea.