Edward DeLong

Edward DeLong
DeLong performing fieldwork in Antarctica
Born	1958 (age 65–66) Sonoma, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Santa Rosa Junior College University of California, Davis Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Known for	Work in metagenomics and biogeochemical cycling
Scientific career
Fields	Microbiology
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Doctoral advisor	Art Yayanos Norman Pace (postdoc)

Edward Francis DeLong (born 1958), is a marine microbiologist and professor in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii, Manoa,^[1] and is considered a pioneer in the field of metagenomics. He is best known for his discovery of the bacterial use of the rhodopsin protein in converting sunlight to biochemical energy in marine microbial communities.