Jacob Cram

Jacob Cram is a collaborator with Melody Jue and Anya Yermakova on Invisible Kelp Forest from Smell to Sound in Melody Jue: Ocean Memory. The source also uses his comparison of microbes to dice to explain probabilistic movement through chemical gradients.

Cram’s examples connect Chemosensation with Ecological Memory. In kelp forests, slower water can let chemical gradients persist, and microbes use chemotaxis to move through changing concentrations without maps.

Connections

• Melody Jue and Anya Yermakova — collaborators on translating underwater smell into sound.
• Chemosensation — chemical-sensing frame for microbes and kelp forests.
• Ecological Memory and Ocean Memory — broader memory concepts supported by microbial navigation and chemical gradients.