Author Archives: Jeff
Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture
A couple of months ago I was fortunate to have the opportunity to give a lecture at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps in the Perspectives on Ocean Science lecture series. The lecture covered some emerging topics in Arctic Oceanography and … Continue reading
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OAST visits the South Bay Saltworks
Last week we were busy hosting the inaugural Oceans Across Space and Time (OAST, @Space Oceans OAST on Facebook) combined first year meeting and field effort. It was a crazy week but a huge success. The goal of OAST is … Continue reading
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CAREER proposal funded
I’m thrilled to learn that my CAREER proposal was just funded by NSF-OPP, though I’m slightly disappointed that they made me change the title from IM-HAPPIER: Investigating Marine Heterotrophic Antarctic Processes, Paradigms, and Inferences through Research and Education to Understanding … Continue reading
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Discover America visits SIO
Thanks to Jesse and Natalia for their help yesterday with the Discover America program run by the US State Department; SIO successfully hosted 35 foreign ambassadors and their spouses for an educational tour of the Scripps Pier. It was quite … Continue reading
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MOSAiC in the news!
As a quick followup to Emelia’s post (https://www.polarmicrobes.org/training-for-mosaic-bremerhaven-utqiagvik/) on training for MOSAiC, there is a nice piece out today in the Washington Post on the US-based training for MOSAiC here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/science/arctic-sea-ice-expedition-to-study-climate-change/?utm_term=.2552b79d5a32. It’s alarming to realize that Polarstern will depart from … Continue reading
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Tutorial: Basic heatmaps and ordination with paprica output
The output from our paprica pipeline for microbial community structure analysis and metabolic inference has changed quite a lot over the last few months. In response to some recent requests here’s a tutorial that walks through an ordination and a … Continue reading
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New paper on seagrass microbial ecology
We have a new paper out today on the impacts of coastal seagrasses on the microbial community structure of San Diego Bay. I’m excited about this paper as the first student-led study to come out of my lab. The study … Continue reading
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Tagged Natalia Erazo, paprica, Sahra Webb, seagrass microbiome, Tia Rabsatt
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New paper on Antarctic microbial dark matter
I’m happy to report that I have a new paper out this week in Frontiers in Microbiology titled Identification of Microbial Dark Matter in Antarctic Environments. I thought that it would be interesting to see how well different Antarctic environments … Continue reading
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AbSciCon session on life in high salt habitats
Abstract submissions are open for AbSciCon 2019! You can check out the full selection of sessions here, however, I’d like to draw your attention toward the session Salty Goodness: Understanding life, biosignature preservation, and brines in the Solar System. This … Continue reading
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South Bay Saltworks
This is a quick post of a few photos from our trip to the South Bay Saltworks earlier this week. Thanks to PhD students Natalia, Emelia, and Srishti for getting up early to go play in the mud, and to … Continue reading
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