MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION ON SINKING PARTICLES AS A FUNCTION OF DEPTH AND PARTICLE TYPE IN THE NORTH PACIFIC

Alyson Santoro1, Justine Albers2, Colleen A Durkin3, Matthieu Bressac4, Margaret L Estapa5, Ken Buesseler6, Melissa Omand7, Uta Passow2 and Philip W. Boyd8, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (4)University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Ecology and Biodiversity, Hobart, TAS, Australia, (5)Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States, (6)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (7)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (8)Univ Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand