Oceanography / Bioinformatics / Complex systems
Marine molecular ecology.
Data that makes living systems legible.
I study how marine microorganisms respond to a changing environment—and build the reference resources and computational workflows that make those responses measurable.
My work connects ocean field studies, molecular ecology, and reproducible bioinformatics, with an independent research practice in human–AI collaboration.
Publications appear under Mora J. Groussman and Ryan D. Groussman. ORCID 0000-0001-7874-7217
Reference libraries, environmental gene catalogs, and collaborative studies that connect molecular signals to the organisms and ecosystems behind them.
Marine Functional EukaRyotic Reference Taxa: an open-source, version-controlled protein reference library for identifying marine microbial eukaryotes in environmental sequence data.
Contribution: First-author research, reference-data curation, and reproducible database construction.
Curated taxonomy, documented inputs, and a containerized build workflow make the reference collection inspectable and reusable.
Metatranscriptome assemblies, taxonomic and functional annotations, and read-abundance data connecting North Pacific microbial communities across environmental gradients and the daily light cycle.
Contribution: First-author research, data integration, and computational processing.
Collaborative studies use metatranscriptomes and machine learning to investigate how marine protists obtain energy through photosynthesis, feeding, or a combination of both.
2025 contribution: Methodology, data curation, and manuscript review, with substantial involvement in the study sequence datasets.
Public resources associated with my research. Sequence reads, processed data, and reference collections are linked separately so you can choose the appropriate starting point.
MarFERReT resources for taxonomic annotation and transcriptome coverage assessment.
Assemblies, annotations, and abundance estimates from North Pacific metatranscriptomes.
Raw sequence accessions associated with the gene catalog.
Sequence datasets for the 2025 trophic-strategy study, and data accompanying the cobalamin study.
For reuse, consult the linked record for its version, license, methods, and citation instructions.
Field records connect the computational work to sampling conditions, environmental measurements, and the people who make ocean research possible.
I led a one-day training cruise aboard R/V Rachel Carson for fellow graduate students preparing for the Gradients 4 expedition. The cruise brought research preparation into a working shipboard setting.
Four cruises support five study datasets; Gradients 3 includes both transect and diel sampling.
R/V Kilo Moana
R/V Kaʻimikai-O-Kanaloa
R/V Marcus G. Langseth
R/V Kilo Moana
Peer-reviewed research spanning marine microbial ecology, nutrient cycling, functional genomics, and computational resources.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa coverage of our collaborative study on industrial iron inputs and the spring phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific transition zone.
My scientific work asks how organisms respond to changing resources, interact with one another, and shape their environments. Making those relationships visible requires careful reference data, reproducible methods, and attention to what a measurement can—and cannot—tell us.
I carry that practice into independent work on human–AI collaboration: preserving context, tracing contributions, and studying how shared information is organized and interpreted. These projects extend my research questions into new settings, with their own methods and evidence to develop.
Technical consulting, computational infrastructure, and practical work across disciplinary boundaries.
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Available for research collaboration and fractional consulting in bioinformatics, computational biology, and interdisciplinary technical work.
mora@foxcoded.xyz