Mary Ann Moran is a Professor in the University of Gerogia Department of Marine Sciences. She studies bacterial roles in the marine carbon and sulfur cycle; ecological genomics, metagenomics, and metatranscriptomics in coastal marine environments; diversity and structure of estuarine and coastal ocean bacterial communities; ecology and physiology of marine Roseobacter bacteria. On the ROCA project, she is investigating bacterial processing of organic carbon in the Amazon River and plume using functional metagenomics approaches.