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Punta Arenas to Palmer Station
We arrived at Palmer Station last Thursday morning after a particularly long trip down from Punta Arenas. Depending on the weather the trip across the Drake Passage and down the Peninsula to Anvers Island typically takes about four days. This … Continue reading
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Enroute to Palmer Station
I’m currently sitting in the Dallas airport waiting for a flight to Santiago, Chile, enroute to Palmer Station for the 2015 spring season. Since there is no airfield at Palmer we’ll go in and out by boat (the ARSV Laurence … Continue reading
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paprica v0.20
A couple of months ago I published paprica v0.11, a set of scripts for conducting a metabolic inference from a collection of 16S rRNA gene reads. This approach allows you to estimate the functional capabilities of a microbial community if … Continue reading
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SCAR session on microbial ecology
Along with colleagues from New Zealand, Argentina, and Malaysia I’m convening a session on microbial ecology and evolution at the upcoming biennial SCAR meeting in Kuala Lumpur (because there’s no better place to talk about ice than the tropics). If … Continue reading
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Sea ice bacteria review published
I’m really excited (and relieved) to report that my review on the taxonomy and function of sea ice microbial communities was recently published in the journal Elementa. The review is part of a series on biological exchange processes at the … Continue reading
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Microbial ecology of the cryosphere
A quick post on an excellent review published last week by Antje Boetius and co-authors (including Jody Deming, my PhD advisor) in Nature Reviews Microbiology, titled Microbial ecology of the cryosphere: sea ice and glacial habitats. The review, focused on … Continue reading
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And now…
…for something completely different. My wife and I are expecting our first child in a few months, which is wonderful and all, but means that we are faced with the daunting task of coming up with a name. Being data … Continue reading
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Introducing PAPRICA
I’m very excited to report that our latest paper – Microbial communities can be described by metabolic structure: A general framework and application to a seasonally variable, depth-stratified microbial community from the coastal West Antarctic Peninsula was just published in … Continue reading
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El Nino, SAM, and sea ice conditions at Palmer
In 2 and a half months, and unless there’s another government shutdown, I’m heading down to Palmer Station to collect a key set of samples for one of my projects. The idea is to time this sampling effort with the … Continue reading
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BMSIS Undergraduate Essay Contest
Reposted from www.bmsis.org, please share widely! Mars is on the horizon for future space explorers, with national space agencies as well as private corporations making plans to send humans to the red planet in the coming decades. Meanwhile, remote exploration … Continue reading
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