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New paper connecting aerosol optical depth to sea ice cover and ocean color
Congratulations to Srishti Dasarathy for her first first-authored publication! Srishti’s paper “Multi-year Seasonal Trends in Sea Ice, Chlorophyll Concentration, and Marine Aerosol Optical Depth in the Bellingshausen Sea” is out in advance of print in JGR Atmospheres. This paper was … Continue reading
Sampling mangroves in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon
Last week PhD student Natalia Erazo and I were fortunate to get back into the field after a long pandemic hiatus. Our mission was to collect mangrove propagules (essentially a detachable bud from which the mangrove seedling sprouts) from the … Continue reading
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New paper on microbial community structure in coastal Southern California
Congrats to postdoctoral researcher Jesse Wilson for his new paper in Environmental Microbiology Recurrent microbial community types driven by nearshore and seasonal processes in coastal Southern California. Although considerable microbiology work has taken place at the Ellen Browning Scripps Pier … Continue reading
New paper on microbial life in hypersaline environments
Congrats to Benjamin Klempay for his first, first-authored publication in the lab! (wow, didn’t I just write that??) Benjamin is part of the Oceans Across Space and Time (OAST) project and his paper, Microbial diversity and activity in Southern California … Continue reading
New paper on shrimp aquaculture in mangrove forests
Congrats to Natalia Erazo for her first first-authored publication in the lab! Her paper, Sensitivity of the mangrove-estuarine microbial community to aquaculture effluent, appears in a special issue of the journal iScience. The publication is the culmination of our 2017 … Continue reading
New paper on microbial community dynamics in up-flow bioreactors
Congrats to Avishek Dutta for his first publication in the Bowman Lab: Understanding Microbial Community Dynamics in Up-Flow Bioreactors to Improve Mitigation Strategies for Oil Souring. Avishek did a remarkable job of resurrecting a stagnant dataset and turning it into … Continue reading
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New paper linking the SCCOOS and AGAGE datasets
Postdoctoral researcher Jesse Wilson has a new paper titled Using empirical dynamic modeling to assess relationships between atmospheric trace gases and eukaryotic phytoplankton populations in coastal Southern California in press in the journal Marine Chemistry. This paper is the culmination … Continue reading
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Finding those lost data files
It’s been a long time since I’ve had the bandwidth to write up a code snippet here. This morning I had not quite enough time between Zoom meetings to tackle something more involved, so here goes! In this case I … Continue reading
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MOSAiC Interview on The Not Old-Better Show
I was fortunate to have the chance to talk about some of our experiences on MOSAiC Leg 3 with Paul Vogelzang, host of the Smithsonian’s Not Old-Better podcast. The full interview can be found here:
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Looking back to South Bay Salt Works 2019
Many thanks to Michelle Babcock, communications specialist for the OAST project, for producing this great video of our 2019 field effort at the South Bay Salt Works in San Diego. This field effort was supposed to be a low-key opportunity … Continue reading
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