A Eukaryotic green alga, Picocystis, dominates Mono Lake, California in an algal bloom – Hints at cryptic oxygen cycle in euxinic waters

Kohen Witt Bauer1, Katharine Thompson1, Elise Marie Tookmanian2, David Johnston3, William Berelson4, Bradley S. Stevenson5, Blake W Stamps5, Hope Johnson6, Alex L Sessions7, Laurence G Miller8, Ronald S Oremland9, Michael R Rosen10, Frank A Corsetti4 and John R Spear11, (1)University of British Columbia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Life Science Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (6)California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States, (7)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (8)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (9)USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (10)USGS Water Science Field Team, Carson City, NV, United States, (11)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
Scientific Team Name: Geobiology 2016