
Jesse BlackUniversity of California, Santa Cruz | UCSC · Physical & Biological Sciences Division
Jesse Black
Master of Science
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I graduated with an MS in Biological Oceanography with the lab of Dr. Jeff Drazen at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. My research interests are deep-sea ecology, fish growth, ecological modeling, and climate change.
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August 2012 - May 2016
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Trophic ecology of detrital-based food webs is still poorly understood. Abyssal plains depend entirely on detritus and are among the most understudied ecosystems, with deposit feeders dominating megafaunal communities. We used compound-specific stable isotope ratios of amino acids (CSIA-AA) to estimate the trophic position of three abundant species...
ABSTRACT: The deep sea (>500 m ocean depth) is
the largest global habitat, characterized by cool temperatures, low ambient light, and food-poor conditions relative to shallower waters. Deep-sea teleosts generally grow more slowly than those inhabiting
shallow water. However, this is a generalization, and even amongst deep-sea teleosts, there is a b...
The population diversity and structure of CRISPR-Cas immunity provides key insights into virus–host interactions. Here, we examined two geographically and genetically distinct natural populations of the thermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus and their interactions with Sulfolobus spindle-shaped viruses (SSVs) and S. islandicus rod-shaped v...
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is developing regulations to control the future exploitation of deep-sea mineral resources including sulphide deposits near hydrothermal vents, polymetallic nodules on the abyssal seafloor, and cobalt crusts on seamounts. Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea the ISA is required to adopt are taking m...
In the past decade, molecular surveys of viral diversity have revealed that viruses are the most diverse and abundant biological entities on Earth. In culture, however, most viral isolates that infect microbes are represented by a few variants isolated on type strains, limiting our ability to study how natural variation affects virus-host interacti...