Michael P. Lesser

Affiliation:

Address:

Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences
Durham, NH
USA 03824

Program coordination

None

Project coordination

Nitrogen Fixing Prokaryotes in Corals: Is Nitrogen Fixation a Core Function of the Coral Microbiome? (NitroFixCorals)	Principal Investigator, Contact
Collaborative Research: Sponge Growth is Nitrogen Limited over the Shallow to Mesophotic Depth Gradient (MCESponge)	Principal Investigator
Collaborative Research: Dimensions: Evolutionary Ecology of Sponges and Their Microbiome Drives Sponge Diversity on Coral Reefs (DimensionsSponge)	Principal Investigator

Deployment coordination

None

Datasets

Project: Collaborative Research: Dimensions: Evolutionary Ecology of Sponges and Their Microbiome Drives Sponge Diversity on Coral Reefs

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
NCBI accessions and metadata associated with Caribbean sponge metagenomes collected from Curacao, Belize, Cayman Islands and St. Croix, 2009 and 2017-2018 Principal Investigator	2019-08-15	Final no updates expected

Project: Collaborative Research: Sponge Growth is Nitrogen Limited over the Shallow to Mesophotic Depth Gradient

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Depth-dependent irradiance from sunrise to sunset across the shallow to mesophotic depth gradient for three coral morphologies from a backward Monte Carlo ray-tracing model Principal Investigator	2021-02-18	Final no updates expected
Depth ranges of occurrence for major functional groups of invertebrates, fish, and algae on global shallow and mesophotic reefs, 1973–2017 Principal Investigator	2019-07-10	Final no updates expected
Percent cover and density of sponges at multiple sites in Caribbean and Pacific from shallow to mesophotic depths Principal Investigator	2018-11-20	Final no updates expected

Project: Nitrogen Fixing Prokaryotes in Corals: Is Nitrogen Fixation a Core Function of the Coral Microbiome?

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Metagenetic amplicon sequence data for multiple coral species from Curacao, Australia and Hawaii Principal Investigator	2018-11-19	Final no updates expected
Comparative genomics of color morphs in the coral Montastraea cavernosa (NitroFixCorals project) Principal Investigator	2018-01-12	Final no updates expected

Database