Jeff Bowman is a postdoctoral fellow in the Biology and Paleoenvironment Division of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and a research scientist at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science. For more information about Dr. Bowman's research, visit his website.

The full title of this talk is Picking the Lock on a Metabolic Treasure Trove: Predicting Microbial Ecosystem Function from Microbial Community Structure, and an Introduction to PAPRICA.