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In the weeks leading up to starting at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where I am now a first year PhD student, I often found myself – for better or worse – turning to Google for advice on navigating the next … Continue reading →

Over the last few months volunteer diver Caitlyn Webster has been putting together a quick outreach video on our CURE-ing Microbes on Ocean Plastics project with National University. In addition to highlighting the project, Caitlyn provides a nice overview of … Continue reading →

The San Diego Union Tribune published an article on our work at the South Bay Salt Works, part of the larger NASA-funded OAST project. Check it out here: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/story/2019-11-05/seeking-life-in-the-solar-system.

We have a new paper published this week in Frontiers in Environmental Science on estimating ecosystem services along the western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). This was one of the most challenging academic efforts I’ve been involved in, and is the culmination … Continue reading →

Natalia Erazo and I are on our way back from an amazing week of sampling in the Cayapas-Mataje Ecological Reserve in northern Ecuador. We first visited the reserve in 2017 and have been anxious to return ever since. Our objectives … Continue reading →

Hello! It’s Emelia again – to learn more about me and my research in the Bowman Lab check out this post. I have recently returned from 2 weeks in the Canadian Arctic where I attended an absolutely incredible summer field … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →