Rate My Professor Mike Stukel

Stukel's research centers on plankton ecology and marine biogeochemistry, exploring zooplankton's role in the biological carbon pump, carbon sequestration processes, nitrogen cycling, and impacts on fisheries and climate. Leading the FSU Plankton Ecology and Biogeochemistry Lab, his interdisciplinary team studies these dynamics in regions such as the Southern Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, California Current Ecosystem, Amazon River Plume, and Pacific upwelling zones. He has earned awards including the NASA NESSF Graduate Fellowship (2009-2010), NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2005-2008), Wyers Fellowship (2008), and Henry L. & Grace Doherty Fellowship (2004-2005). Prominent publications include "Salp blooms drive strong increases in passive carbon export in the Southern Ocean" (Décima et al., Nature Communications, 2023), "Carbon sequestration by multiple biological pump pathways in a coastal upwelling biome" (Stukel et al., Nature Communications, 2023), "Quantifying biological carbon pump pathways with a data-constrained mechanistic model ensemble approach" (Stukel et al., Biogeosciences, 2022), and highly cited papers such as "Mesoscale ocean fronts enhance carbon export due to gravitational sinking and subduction" (PNAS, 2017). His scholarship has garnered over 4,100 citations on Google Scholar, advancing knowledge of marine ecosystem responses to environmental change.