MOTS research is supported by
Portobello Marine Laboratory (PML) Staff
- Dr Doug Mackie – Lab manager
- Linda Groenewegen – Technician
- Reuben Pooley – Technician
- Adam Brook – Technician
Skippers / crew of the RV Polaris II
- Bill Dickson – Skipper, Polaris II
- Evan Kenton – Technician, Polaris II
Funding for MOTS research
University of Otago Research Grants (UORG):
- Problem child: the effect of El Niño on carbon cycling and bacterioplankton diversity (2017)
- Into the virosphere: examining spatio-temporal variation in marine viral populations across the Subtropical Frontal Zone (2017)
- Active versus inactive bacterioplankton diversity along the Subtropical Front (2016)
- The missing dimension: microgel-bacteria interactions and their role in marine carbon cycling (2015)
- The effect of oceanic frontal systems on bacterial carbon cycling (2014).
- Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (Royal Society of NZ). “What makes 'normal' normal? Alternative microbial carbon and energy acquisition mechanisms in the neglected high-nutrient low-chlorophyll (HNLC) areas of the ocean” (2017–2022).
- Division of Science Strategic Fund (University of Otago). Revealing the microbes living under the Ross Ice Shelf (2017).
Student funding
University of Otago Scholarship
- PhD: Blair Thomson, Fenella Deans, Scott Lockwood, Jess Wenley
- Master's: Jess Wenley
Fulbright Scholarship
- Scott Lockwood (Honours)