Listed below are the researchers involved with this project and their associated institutions. Individual email addresses are also provided where available.

People and contacts within the project.

Name	Position	Institute	Key Interest
Dr. Ian Joint	Principal Investigator	Plymouth Marine Laboratory	Marine Environmental Research
Dr. Martin Muhling	Co Investigator	Plymouth Marine Laboratory	Marine Environmental Research
Dr. Glen Wheeler	Co Investigator	Plymouth Marine Laboratory	Marine Environmental Research
Dr. Willie Wilson	Co Investigator	Plymouth Marine Laboratory	Marine Environmental Research
Prof. James Prosser	Principal Investigator	Aberdeen University	Microbial diversity in aquatic environments
Dr. John Fry	Principal Investigator	Cardiff University	Ecological bacterial genetics
Prof. R John Parkes	Co Investigator	Cardiff University	Geomicrobiology, Biogeochemistry, Deep Biosphere
Prof. Andrew Weightman	Co Investigator	Cardiff University	Microbial evolution and adaptation of microbial communities to pollution and environmental challenge
Prof. Mark Bailey	Principal Investigator	Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Biodiversity
Dr. Dawn Field	Co Investigator	Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics
Prof. Roger W Pickup	Co Investigator	Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Ecological Processes in Freshwaters and Soils
Dr. Andrew Whiteley	Co Investigator	Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Microbial Ecology
Dr. Mark Osborn	Principal Investigator	Sheffield University	Biogeochemical cycling and microbial community structure and function in estuarine and marine environments
Prof. David Nedwell	Principal Investigator	Essex University	Ecology of aquatic microorganisms and the ecological role of sediment bacteria, particularly in estuarine and marine sediments
Prof. Clive Edwards	Principal Investigator	Liverpool University	Identifying the key microbial species involved in nutrient transfer.
Prof. Alan J McCarthy	Co Investigator	Liverpool University	Identifying ecologically-active species.
Prof. Jon R Saunders	Co Investigator	Liverpool University	Molecular biology of microbial populations
Dr. Alan Ward	Co Investigator	Newcastle University	Microbial Technology
Prof. Michael Goodfellow	Co Investigator	Newcastle University	General and Molecular Microbiology
Prof. Anthony Odonnell	Co Investigator	Newcastle University	Functional and applied biology
Dr. James Stach	Co Investigator	Newcastle University	Functional and applied biology
Dr. Ian Head	Principal Investigator	Newcastle University	Microbial ecology and environmental microbiology
Dr. Anil Wipat	Co Investigator	Newcastle University	Bioinformatics
Dr. Mike Zubkov	Principal Investigator	Southampton Oceanography Centre	Pelagic Biogeochemistry
Dr. David O'Connor	Co Investigator	Southampton Oceanography Centre	Molecular aspects of bacterial survival responses, host-microbe interactions and virulence
Prof. Peter Burkill	Co Investigator	Southampton Oceanography Centre	Marine microbial biogeochemistry, particularly on microzooplankton trophodynamics
Dr. Michael Wyman	Principal Investigator	Stirling University	Molecular biology of marine cyanobacteria
Prof. David W Hopkins	Co Investigator	Stirling University	Soil biology and biochemistry - the transformations of C and N in soils
Prof. Nicholas H Mann	Principal Investigator	Warwick University	Marine viruses: ecological effects and evolution
Prof. Colin Murrell	Principal Investigator	Warwick University	Microbiology of Methylotrophic Bacteria
Dr. Dave Scanlan	Co Investigator	Warwick University	Molecular ecology of photosynthetic prokaryotes