Biology
Teeth. migration. hunger.
The Name
D.C. Barletta
Biology. Deep time. Pressure.
Pressure
Cities fail like organisms.
Wonder
Myth with a fossil spine.
Understructure
Teeth, weather, stone.
The world holds because its pressures hold.
Past Research
Earlier strata.
Marine algae. Cell walls. Work before Tethys.
Marine Biology
Phytoplankton Bloom Dynamics in Narragansett Bay
Algal ecology, light-limitation modeling
Seasonal surveys tracking nitrogen cycling and chlorophyll-a fluorescence across stratified water columns. This work established the baseline thinking around resource constraints that later became central to Tethys world-building.
Rhode Island CollegeField StationWater ColumnNutrient Flux
Cell Biology
Cell Wall Architecture in Diatom Communities
Silica frustule structure, growth kinetics
Microscopy studies of silicified cell walls in diatom assemblages under variable salinity regimes. The layered, geometric precision of frustule design was a direct influence on the architectural vocabulary used in Tethys settlements.
DiatomsElectron MicroscopySilica ArchitectureSalinity Gradient
Ecological Modeling
Benthic Recovery After Hypoxic Events
Dead zone succession, invertebrate recolonization
Post-hypoxia transect work mapping the sequence in which benthic species reclaimed oxygen-depleted sediment zones. The idea of a world recovering from planetary-scale disruption traces directly to this research context.
HypoxiaBenthic EcologySuccessionRecovery Dynamics
Foundation
Rhode Island College
Biology, early 2000s. Where the older systems first became legible.
Rhode Island CollegeOpenings