Summary: Ocean currents shape the distribution and magnitude of microbial populations with cascading influences on the global carbon cycle. In this talk, I will derive a parameterization for the turbulent flux of biological tracers and highlight the role of biological timescales. This parameterization reveals a growth-transport feedback that can generate diversity in phytoplankton community structure at fine scales (1-10 km) and higher net productivity in the presence of community diversity. I will then use ship-board observations to examine the interaction between ocean eddy processes and microbial communities revealing how frontal dynamics shape the upper ocean distribution of carbon and microbial communities.
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