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Overview

Byron C. Crump is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a concentration on subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, and Molecular Biology.

They focus extensively on topics including Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Climate Change and Permafrost, Gut Microbiota and Health, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Byron C. Crump has coauthored works with several frequent collaborators, including Ted Bambakidis, James Stegen, George W. Kling, Simon Roux, and José P. Faria.

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as Nature Biotechnology, Limnology and Oceanography, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLoS ONE, and OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

Recent papers by Byron C. Crump include:

  • A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • The Microbial Ecology of Estuarine Ecosystems, 2023, Annual Review of Marine Science
  • Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes, 2022, Cell Reports
  • River network travel time is correlated with dissolved organic matter composition in rivers of the contiguous United States, 2021, Hydrological Processes
  • Experimental metatranscriptomics reveals the costs and benefits of dissolved organic matter photo-alteration for freshwater microbes, 2020, Environmental Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Typical freshwater bacteria: an analysis of available 16S rRNA gene sequences from plankton of lakes and rivers

    G. Zwart;B.C. Crump;M.P. Kamst-van Agterveld;F. Hagen

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Phylogenetic Analysis of Particle-Attached and Free-Living Bacterial Communities in the Columbia River, Its Estuary, and the Adjacent Coastal Ocean

    Byron C. Crump;E. Virginia Armbrust;John A. Baross

  • Sunlight controls water column processing of carbon in arctic fresh waters

    Rose M. Cory;Collin P. Ward;Byron C. Crump;George W. Kling

  • Microbial biogeography along an estuarine salinity gradient: combined influences of bacterial growth and residence time.

    Byron C. Crump;Charles S. Hopkinson;Mitchell L. Sogin;John E. Hobbie

  • Bacterioplankton community shifts in an arctic lake correlate with seasonal changes in organic matter source.

    Byron C. Crump;George W. Kling;Michele Bahr;John E. Hobbie

  • VARIATION IN DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER CONTROLS BACTERIAL PRODUCTION AND COMMUNITY COMPOSITION

    Kristin E. Judd;Byron C. Crump;George W. Kling

  • Microbial diversity in arctic freshwaters is structured by inoculation of microbes from soils.

    Byron C Crump;Linda A Amaral-Zettler;Linda A Amaral-Zettler;George W Kling

  • Deciphering ocean carbon in a changing world

    Mary Ann Moran;Elizabeth B. Kujawinski;Aron Stubbins;Rob Fatland

  • Pyrococcus abyssi sp. nov., a new hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent

    Gaël Erauso;Anna-Louise Reysenbach;Anne Godfroy;Jean-Roch Meunier

  • Spatial variability overwhelms seasonal patterns in bacterioplankton communities across a river to ocean gradient.

    Caroline S Fortunato;Lydie Herfort;Peter Zuber;Antonio M Baptista

  • Synchrony and seasonality in bacterioplankton communities of two temperate rivers

    Byron C. Crump;John E. Hobbie

  • Dominance of particle-attached bacteria in the Columbia River estuary, USA

    Byron C. Crump;John A. Baross;Charles A. Simenstad

  • Terrestrial inputs of organic matter to coastal ecosystems : An intercomparison of chemical characteristics and bioavailability

    Charles S. Hopkinson;Ishi Buffam;John Hobbie;Joseph Vallino

  • Surface exposure to sunlight stimulates CO2 release from permafrost soil carbon in the Arctic

    Rose M. Cory;Byron C. Crump;Jason A. Dobkowski;George W. Kling

  • BIOGEOGRAPHY OF BACTERIOPLANKTON IN LAKES AND STREAMS OF AN ARCTIC TUNDRA CATCHMENT

    Byron C. Crump;Heather E. Adams;John E. Hobbie;George W. Kling

  • Temperature controls on aquatic bacterial production and community dynamics in arctic lakes and streams

    Heather E. Adams;Byron C. Crump;George W. Kling

  • Photochemical alteration of organic carbon draining permafrost soils shifts microbial metabolic pathways and stimulates respiration

    Collin P. Ward;Collin P. Ward;Sarah G. Nalven;Byron C. Crump;George W. Kling

  • Circumpolar synchrony in big river bacterioplankton.

    Byron C. Crump;Bruce J. Peterson;Peter A. Raymond;Rainer M. W. Amon

  • Particle-attached bacteria and heterotrophic plankton associated with the Columbia River estuarine turbidity maxima

    Crump Bc;Baross Ja

  • Sunlight Controls Water Column Processing of Carbon in Arctic Freshwaters

    R. M. Cory;C. P. Ward;B. C. Crump;G. W. Kling

Frequent Co-Authors

George W. Kling
George W. Kling University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mary Ann Moran
Mary Ann Moran University of Georgia
John E. Hobbie
John E. Hobbie Marine Biological Laboratory
John A. Baross
John A. Baross University of Washington
Patricia L. Yager
Patricia L. Yager University of Georgia
Rose M. Cory
Rose M. Cory University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John H. Paul
John H. Paul University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Jeffrey C. Cornwell
Jeffrey C. Cornwell University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
James W. McClelland
James W. McClelland The University of Texas at Austin
Peter Zuber
Peter Zuber Oregon Health & Science University

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