Beman 

Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences

Office Phone: (209) 228-4713
Office Location: Castle - 97
Email: mbeman@ucmerced.edu

Webpage: http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/mbeman/

Research Interests:

There are half a billion microorganisms in a glass of seawater, and for the most part, we have no idea what most of these organisms ‘do’—what they eat, how they survive, or how they interact. We do know that the collective activities of these tiny cells drive global cycles of biologically essential elements such as nitrogen and carbon, and that global biogeochemical cycles have, in turn, been heavily altered by human activities. The overarching goal of my research is to develop an integrative and predictive understanding of the interactions and interplay between microbial ecology, biogeochemical cycling and global change.