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Current projects:
From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems
Funded by NASA, 2003-10-01 to 2008-10-31.
Earth’s Earliest Ecosystems in the Classroom: The Use of Microbial Mats to Illustrate and Demonstrate General Principles of Scientific Inquiry and Microbial Ecology
Funded by NASA, 2004-01-01 to 2006-12-31.

Education:
1968-1972 Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Social Science California State University, San Fransisco.
1984-1988 Master of Science in Oceanography University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Research Activities: Assessment of dissolved and particulate ATP in Antarctic coastal ecosystems
Academic appointments:
1979-1984 Technician International Agricultural Services, South San Francisco, CA
1984-1987 Research Assistant Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu

1987-1991 Research Associate III University of Hawaii Pacific Biomedical Research Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
Research Activities: Regulation of protiein synthesis during early development in marine invertebrates
1991-1998 Research Assistant III
1998-2004 Senior Research Assistant Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Research Activities: Ecology of microbes from Arctic aquatic and New England salt marsh environments
2004-present Education and Public Outreach Coordinator Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Professional memberships:
American Society for Microbiology
National Science Teachers Association
Distinctions and awards:

 

Other activities:
2003-present Instructor, Adult Basic Education
Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable MA
Publications:

Bailiff, M.D., D. Jones, M. Nawrocki (Bahr), B. Tilbrook, P. Haberstroh, G. Tien, G.T. Taylor and D.M. Karl: RACER: Bacterial abundance and thymidine incorporation in the Bransfield Strait, 1986-1987, Antarctic Journal of the U.S., 22:150-153 (1987).

Berman, T., M. Nawrocki (Bahr), G.T. Taylor and D.M. Karl: Nutrient flux between bacteria, nanoplanktonic protists and algae, Marine Microbial Food Webs , 2:69-82 (1987).

Haberstroh, P.R., M.D. Bailiff, G. Tien, G.T. Taylor, D. Jones, B. Tilbrook, M. Nawrocki (Bahr) and D.M. Karl: RACER: Dissolved free amino acid concentrations, molecular composition and microbial uptake rates in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Journal of the U.S., 22:153-156 (1987).

Karl, D.M., G. Tien, D. Jones, B. Tilbrook, M.D. Bailiff, M. Nawrocki (Bahr), G.T. Taylor and P. Haberstroh: RACER: Seasonal changes in the downward flux of biogenic matter, Antarctic Journal of the U.S., 22:157-158 (1987).

Tien, G., D. Jones, M.D. Bailiff, M. Nawrocki (Bahr), B. Tilbrook, P. Haberstroh, G. T. Taylor and D. M. Karl: RACER: Spatial and temporal variations in microbial biomass, Antarctic Journal of the U.S., 22:148-149 (1987).

Nawrocki (Bahr), M. P. and D. M. Karl: Dissolved ATP turnover in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica during a spring bloom, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 57:35-44 (1989).

Rosenthal, E. T., M. Bahr and F. H. Wilt: Regulation of maternal messenger RNA translation during oogenesis and embryogenesis in Urechis caupo, Developmental Biology, 155:297-306 (1993).

Bahr, M., J.E. Hobbie and M.L. Sogin: Bacterial diversity in an arctic lake; a freshwater SAR 11 cluster, Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 11:271-277 (1996).

O’Brien, W.J., M. Bahr, A. Hershey, J. Hobbie, G. Kipphut, G. Kling, H. Kling, M. McDonald, M. Miller, P. Rublee and R.Vestal: The Limnology of Toolik Lake, in Freshwaters of Alaska, ed. M.Osgood and S. Milne, Springer-Verlag, New York, 61-106 (1997).

Peterson, B.J., G.W. Kling and M. Bahr: A tracer investigation of nitrogen cycling in a pristine tundra river, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 54:2361-2367 (1997).

Hobbie, J.E., M. Bahr and P.A. Rublee: Controls on microbial food webs in oligotrophic arctic lakes, Archiv für Hydrobiologie Special Issue Advances in Limnology, New vistas in aquatic microbial ecolog, 54:61-76 (1999).

Wollheim, W., B.J. Peterson, L.A. Deegan, M. Bahr, D. Jones, W.B. Bowden, A.E. Hershey, G.W. Kling, M.C. Miller: A coupled field and modeling approach for the analysis of nitrogen cycling in streams, Journal of the North American Benthological Society , 18:199-221 (1999).

Hobbie, J.E., M. Bahr, N. Bettez, and P.A. Rublee: Microbial food webs in oligotrophic arctic lakes, in Microbial Biosystems: New Frontiers, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Microbial Eco, ed. C.R. Bell, M. Brylinsky and P. Johnson-Green, Atlantic Canada Society for Microbial Ecology, Halifax, 293-298 (2000).

Crump B.C., M. Bahr, G.W. Kling, J.E. Hobbie J.E.: Bacterioplankton community shifts in an arctic lake correlate with seasonal changes in organic matter source, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69:2253-2268 (2003).

Klepac-Ceraj,V., M. Bahr, B.C. Crump, A.P. Teske, J.E. Hobbie, and M. F. Polz: High overall diversity and dominance of microdiverse relationships in salt marsh sulfate-reducing bacteria, Environmental Microbiology, 6:686-698 (2004).

Bahr, M., B.C.Crump, V. Kelpac-Ceraj, A.P.Teske, M.L. Sogin, and J.E.Hobbie: Molecular characterization of sulfate-reducing bacteria in a New England salt marsh, Environmental Microbiology, 7:1175-1185 (2005).

Roland, S., M. Bahr, L. Olendzenski and D. Patterson. 2005. "Switch on the micro*scope!" The Science Teacher 72 : 44-46.

Hobbie, J.E., M. Bahr and A.-L. Reysenbach. 2007. "Ecology at long-Term Research Sites: Integrating Microbes and Ecosystems" in Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 3rd Ed., ASM Press. Editors: C. J. Hurst, R. L. Crawford, J. L. Garland, D. A. Lipson, A. L. Mills, and L. D. Stetzenbach. pp. 182-189.