University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA
N.M. Levine
Marine and Environmental Biology, Department of Biological Sciences
University of Southern California
(213) 821-0745
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N.M. Levine
Positions
University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA
Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences and Earth Sciences Dec 2013- present
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole MA
Postdoctoral Investigator, Doney Lab 2013
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow 2010- 2013
Faculty Host: Prof. Paul R. Moorcroft
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Moorcroft Lab 2010
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole MA 2010
Ph.D. Chemical Oceanography
Dissertation: Understanding the ocean carbon and sulfur cycles in the context
of a variable ocean: a study of anthropogenic carbon storage and
dimethylsulfide production in the Atlantic Ocean
Dissertation Advisors: Dr. Scott C. Doney, Dr. Dierdre A. Toole
Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole MA 2006
Microbial Diversity Course Participant
Princeton University, Princeton NJ 2003
B.A. Geosciences, summa cum laude
Honors Thesis Advisor: Prof. Michael L. Bender
Research Interests
· Interactions between climate and ecosystem composition and function
· Impact of fine-scale heterogeneity and variability on microbial ecosystem dynamics
· Marine carbon and nutrient cycling
Awards & Honors
Sloan Research Fellowship, Ocean Sciences 2016-2018
Gabilan Assistant Professorship, University of Southern California 2013-2018
Ruth and Paul Fye Award for Excellence in Oceanographic Research Graduate Student Best Paper Award, MIT/WHOI Joint Program 2015
NOAA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Climate and Global Change 2010-2013
DISCO XXII (Dissertations Symposium on Chemical Oceanography), Invited Participant 2010
Publications
Peer Reviewed (* denotes papers first authored by supervised graduate student)
Lee, MD, NG Walworth, EL McParland, F-X Fu, TJ Mincer, NM Levine, DA Hutchins, and EA Webb (submitted), TheTrichodesmiumconsortium: species-level conservation and genomic signatures of co-dependency
Levine, NM (submitted), Life in a patchy ocean: the impact of fine-scale environmental heterogeneity on ecosystem dynamics
Levine, NM (2016), Putting the spotlight on organic sulfur: Diverse dissolved organic sulfur compounds play an active role in ocean biogeochemistry, Science 354(6311), 418-419 * invited Perspective
Restrepo-Coupe, N, NM Levine et al. (2016), Do dynamic global vegetation models capture the seasonality of carbon fluxes in the Amazon basin? A data-model intercomparison, Global Change Biology, doi:10.1111/gcb.13442
Liu, X* and NM Levine (2016) Enhancement of phytoplankton chlorophyll by submesoscale frontal dynamics in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2015GL066996
Levine, NM, DA Toole, A Neeley, NR Bates, SC Doney and JWH Dacey (2016), Revising upper-ocean sulfur dynamics near Bermuda: New lessons from three years of concentration and rate measurements, Environmental Chemistry, doi:10.1071/EN15045
Levine, NM, K Zhang, M Longo, A Baccini, O Phillips, SLLewis, E Alvarez, ACS de Andrade, R Brienen, T Erwin, TR Feldpausch, ALM Mendoza, PNVargas, A Prieto, JES Espejo, YMalhi, and PR Moorcroft (2016),Ecosystem Heterogeneity Determinesthe Resilience Profile of the Amazon to ClimateChange, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (3), 793-797, doi:10.1073/pnas.1511344112
Burd, AB, S Frey, A Cabre, T Ito, NM Levine, C Lonborg, MC Long, M Mauritz, RQ Thomas, B Stevens, T Vanwalleghen, and N Zeng (2016), Terrestrial and Marine Perspectives on Modeling Organic Matter Degradation pathways and Controls, Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/gcb.12987
Zhang, K, A de Almeida Castanho, D Galbraith, S Moghim, NM Levine, R Bras, M Coe, MH Costa, Y Malhi, M Longo, R Knox, S McKnight, J Wang, and PR Moorcroft (2015) The Fate of Amazonian Ecosystems over the Coming Century Arising from Changes in Climate, Atmospheric CO2, and Land-use, Global Change Biology, doi:10.1111/gbc.12903
Rowland, L, A Harper, BO Christoffersen, DR Galbraith, HMA Imbuzeiro, TL Powell, C Doughty, NM Levine, Y Malhi, SR Saleska, PR Moorcroft, P Meir, and M Williams (2015), Modelling climate change responses in tropical forests: similar productivity estimates across five models, but different mechanisms and responses, Geoscientific Model Development, 8, 1097-1110, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-1097-2015
Knox,RG, M Longo, ALS Swann, K Zhang, NM Levine, PR Moorcroft, and RL Bras (2015) Hydrometeorological effects of historical land-conversion in an ecosystem-atmosphere model of Northern South America, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19(1), 241-273, doi:10.5194/hess-19-241-2015
Christoffersen BO, et al. (2014) Mechanisms of water supply and vegetation demand govern the seasonality and magnitude of evapotranspiration in Amazonia and Cerrado. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 191(0): 33-50
de Gonçalves, LGG et al. (2013) Overview of the Large-Scale Biosphere–Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia Data Model Intercomparison Project (LBA-DMIP), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 182–183, pp 111-127
von Randow, C et al. (2013) Inter-annual variability of carbon and water fluxes in Amazonian forest, Cerrado and pasture sites, as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 182–183, pp 145-155
Powell, TL,DR Galbraith,BO Christoffersen, A Harper, HMA Imbuzeiro, L Rowland, PM Brando, ACL da Costa, MH Costa, NM Levine, Y Malhi,SR Saleska, E Sotta,M Williams, P Meir, and PR Moorcroft (2013), Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought, New Phytologist, doi:10.1111/nph.12390
Coe, MT, TR Marthews, MH Costa, DR Galbraith, NL Greenglass, HMA Imbuzeiro, NM Levine, Y Malhi, PR Moorcroft, MN Muza, TL Powell, SR Saleska, LA Solorzano, JF Wang (2013), Deforestation and climate feedbacks threaten the ecological integrity of south-southeastern Amazonia, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 368: 20120155, doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0155
Levine, NM, VA Varaljay, DA Toole, JWH Dacey, SC Doney, and MA Moran (2012), Environmental, biochemical, and genetic drivers of DMSP degradation and DMS production in the Sargasso Sea, Environ. Microbiology, doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02700.x
Goodkin, NF, NM Levine†, SC Doney, and R Wanninkhof (2011), Impacts of temporal CO2 and climate trends on the detection of ocean anthropogenic CO2 accumulation, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 25, GB3023, doi:10.1029/2010GB004009 († NM Levine corresponding author)
Levine, NM, SC Doney, I Lima, R Wanninkhof, NR Bates, and RA Feely (2011), The impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on the uptake and accumulation of anthropogenic CO2 by North Atlantic Ocean mode waters, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 25, GB3022, doi:10.1029/2010GB003892.
Wanninkhof, R, SC Doney, J Bullister, NM Levine, M Warner and N Gruber (2010) Detecting anthropogenic CO2 changes in the interior Atlantic Ocean between 1989-2005, J Geophys. Res., 115, C11028, doi:10.1029/2010JC006251
Levine, NM, ML Bender and SC Doney (2009), The d18O of dissolved O2 as a tracer of mixing and respiration in the mesopelagic ocean, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 23, GB1006, doi:10.1029/2007GB003162
Levine, NM, SC Doney, R Wanninkhof, K Lindsay, and IY Fung (2008), Impact of ocean carbon system variability on the detection of temporal increases in anthropogenic CO2, J Geophys. Res., 113, C03019, doi:10.1029/2007JC004153
Other
Corsetti, FA, et al. (2015) Investigating the paleoecological consequences of supercontinent breakup: sponges clean up in the early Jurassic, The Sedimentary Record, Vol 13 (2).
Braco, A, MC Long, NM Levine, RQ Thomas, C Deutsch, and GA McKinley (2015) NCAR’s Summer Colloquium: capacity building in cross-disciplinary research of Earth System carbon-climate connections, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
Goodkin, NF, NM Levine, SC Doney, and R Wanninkhof (2011), Atmospheric CO2 trends hinder detection of oceanic CO2 accumulation, SOLAS International Newsletter, Issue 12, (www.solas-int.org)
Doney, SC and NM Levine (2006), How long can the ocean slow global warming? Oceanus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, (http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/index.do)
Doney, SC and NM Levine (2006), Detecting anthropogenic carbon inventory growth in a noisy ocean, SOLAS News, Issue 4, (www.solas-int.org)
Manuscripts in Preparation (* denotes papers first authored by supervised graduate student)
Levine, NM, D Galbraith, B Christoffersen, H Imbuzeiro, NR Coupe, S Saleska, Y Malhi, MH Costa, O Phillips, A Andrade, RAINFOR, and PR Moorcroft (in prep), The role of short and long-term climate variability in governing Amazonian biomass dynamics
Liu, X*, P Calil, Y Teng, and NM Levine (in prep), Impacts of Climate Change on Phytoplankton Productivity and Carbon Export in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
Liu, X*, BH Jones, DA Kiefer, P Zhan, I Hoteit, N Zarokanellos, AR Kartadikaria, Y Teng, and NM Levine (in prep), The environmental control of primary productivity in the Red Sea
Teel, EN*, X Liu, BN Seegers, MA Ragan, BH Jones, and NM Levine (in prep), Using in-situ glider data to improve the interpretation of time-series data
Teel, EN*, X Liu, JA Cram, R Sachdeva, JA Fuhrman, and NM Levine (in prep), Impact of free-living marine bacterial community composition on heterotrophic remineralization ratesand biogeochemical carbon cycling
McParland, E* and NM Levine (in prep), Solving the secret to DMSP synthesis: Answers from a meta-analysis of multi-species and multi-stressor culture studies
Gomez-Consarnau, L, NM Levine, LS Cutter, D Wang, B Seegers, J Aristegui, JA Fuhrman, JM Gasol, SA Sanudo-Wilhelmy (to be submitted to Nature), Marine proteorhodopsins rival chlorophyll in solar energy capture
Longo, M, RG Knox, NM Levine et al. (in prep), Amazon Forest vulnerability and resilience to drier rainfall regimes: incorporating heterogeneity from neighborhood to biome scales
Invited Lectures
Levine, NM, New insight into ocean carbon cycling by embracing the challenge of scales
University of California, Irvine, Department Seminar Dec 2016
University of British Columbia, Department Seminar Nov 2016
University of California, Los Angeles, Department Seminar Nov 2016
University of Southern California, Department of Computational Biology Seminar Oct 2016
Levine, NM, Competition in a patchy world: submesoscale dynamics, phytoplankton growth, and carbon export in the oligotrophic North Pacific, PICES-2016 Annual Meeting Nov 2016
Levine, NM, Bridging the gap between functional genes and biogeochemistry: a DMSP case study
Joint Academic Microbiology Seminars, Sydney Australia April 2015
Levine, NM, Life in a dynamic ocean: The impact ofsubmesoscale physical dynamics on phytoplankton growth and competition
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Ecology Seminar April 2016
University of Technology Sydney, Department Seminar April 2015
UC Santa Barbara, IGPMS Seminar April 2015
University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department Seminar March 2015
Levine, NM, Embracing heterogeneity: bridging between the fine and large scales
University of Southern California, Earth Sciences Department Seminar March 2014
Levine, NM, Bridging the gap between functional genes and biogeochemistry: a DMSP case study
University of Chicago Jan 2013
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Oct 2012
Levine, NM, Seeing the forest AND the trees: Modeling ecosystem-climate interactions
University of Georgia, Marine Sciences Department Seminar Dec 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PAOC Lunch Seminar Apr 2012
California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar Apr 2012
Levine, NM, Minding the Gap: Bridging genomics and biogeochemistry
Marine Microbes Gordon Research Conference June 2012
Levine, NM, Small organisms with a large climate footprint: the production of DMS by phytoplankton and bacteria
NOAA Climate and Global Change 20th Anniversary Celebration Apr 2011
Levine, NM, From Genes to Biogeochemical Cycles: a marine sulfur cycle case study
California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar Oct 2010
University of Hong Kong, Department of Earth Sciences Sept 2010
Levine, NM, The role of bacterial and phytoplankton functional groups in the production of dimethylsulfide
Brown University, Geological Sciences Lunch Bunch Seminar Nov 2009
Levine, NM, Dimethylsulfoniopropionate, Dimethylsulfide and Light: knowns, unknowns and uncertainties
AMEMR DMS Modeling Workshop May 2008
Selected Professional Presentations (* denotes abstract first authored by supervised student)
Contributed Lectures
Liu, X*, Y Teng, P Calil, and NM Levine (2017) Impact of fine-scale physics on marine ecosystem and carbon dynamics in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: perspectives from a new modeling approach, AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting
Levine, NM (2016) Competition in a patchy world: insight from a new modeling approach, Marine Microbes Gordon Conference
Levine, NM and X Liu (2016) Modeling the impact of fine temporal and spatial scale processes on large-scale ecosystem dynamics and carbon cycling, AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting
Levine, NM, DA Toole, A Neeley, NR Bates, SC Doney and JWH Dacey (2014), Revising upper-ocean sulfur dynamics near Bermuda: New lessons from three years of concentration and rate measurements, 6th DMSP Symposium, Barcelona, Spain
Levine, NM (2012) Environmental, biochemical and genetic drivers of DMSP degradation and DMS production, Marine Microbes Gordon Research Seminar
Levine, NM (2010) Understanding the ocean carbon and sulfur cycles in the context of a variable ocean: a study of anthropogenic carbon storage and dimethylsulfide production in the Atlantic Ocean, DISCO XXII, Honolulu, HI
Levine, NM, DA Toole, A Neeley, JWH Dacey, SC Doney, NR Bates, and MA Moran (2009) Evidence that bacteria play an important role in the upper ocean sulfur cycle at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Station, ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting
SC Doney, NM Levine†, I Lima, R Wanninkhof, C Sabine, and RA Feely (2008), Observational and model estimates of decadal-scale changes in anthropogenic carbon in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS24A-02 († presentation by NM Levine)
Levine, NM, SC Doney, K Lindsay, and R Wanninkhof (2006), Detection and attribution of anthropogenic CO2 in light of interannual variability and secular climate change, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Annual Meeting
Contributed Posters
Teel, EN*, X Liu, JA Cram, R Sachdeva, JA Fuhrman, and NM Levine (2016) Modeling the effects of free-living marine bacterial community composition on heterotrophic remineralization rates and biogeochemical carbon cycling, AGU, Fall Meeting
Liu, X* and NM Levine (2015, 2016) Submesoscale frontal heterogeneity enhances phytoplankton chlorophyll in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, OCB Summer Workshop and AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting
McParland, E*, FX Fu, DA Hutchins, and NM Levine (2014) DMSP Production in high CO2 oceans by nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria, Global Change Biology Gordon Conference and 6th DMSP Symposium
Levine, NM (2014) The impact of small-scale physical variability on large-scale carbon cycling and ecosystem dynamics, Global Change Biology Gordon Conference
Levine, NM (2014) The impact of small-scale physical variability on large-scale carbon cycling and ecosystem dynamics, AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting
Levine, NM, D Galbraith, B Christoffersen, H Imbuzerio, NR Coupe, Y Malhi, S Saleska, MH Costa, O Phillips, A Andrade, RAINFOR, and PR Moorcroft (2011), The synergistic use of models and observations: understanding the mechanisms behind observed biomass dynamics at 14 Amazonian field sites and the implications for future biomass changes, AGU, Fall Meeting
Levine, NM, DA Toole, A Neeley, JWH Dacey, SC Doney, and NR Bates (2008), Bacterially driven diurnal changes in the upper ocean sulfur cycle, AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting