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We have a paper “Recurrent seascape units identify key ecological processes along the western Antarctic Peninsula” that is now available via advance-online through the journal Global Change Biology.  I place full blame for this paper on my former postdoctoral advisor … Continue reading →

Hello! My name is Melissa Hopkins. I just finished my first quarter as an undergraduate researcher in the Bowman Lab. The project I am working on involves the diversity of halophiles from the South Bay Saltworks lakes in San Diego. … Continue reading →

Today we took the last sample of our Ecuador field effort, though we have a few days left in-country. Right now we are in the town of Mompiche, just down the coast from our second field site near Muisne. Tomorrow … Continue reading →

As any reader of this blog will know, most of the research in the Bowman Lab is focused on polar microbial ecology. Although focusing a research program on a set of geographically-linked environments does have advantages, primarily the ability to … Continue reading →

With colleagues Maria Corsaro, Eric Collins, Maria Tutino, Jody Deming, and Julie Dinasquet I’m convening a session on polar microbial ecology and evolution at the upcoming POLAR2018 conference in Davos, Switzerland.  Polar2018 is shaping up to be a unique and … Continue reading →

I’m happy to be co-author on a study that was just published by Ann Arfken, a PhD student at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science (VIMS).  The study evaluated the composition of the microbial community associated with eastern oyster Crassostrea … Continue reading →

I’m excited to be hosting the fall meeting of NASA’s Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) here at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in September.  For planetary scientists at UCSD, SDSU, USD, and other institutions in the greater San Diego area, if … Continue reading →

Very often environmental datasets contain far fewer observations than we would like, and far more variables that might influence these observations.  This is the case for one of my projects in the Palmer LTER: I have annual observations of an … Continue reading →

I’m going to go way off the normal track here and do a bit of social commentary.  I heard a radio piece on my drive home yesterday about the challenge of paying court and legal fees for low income wage … Continue reading →

Or rather the lack thereof.  I was very disappointed to receive an email yesterday that BioCyc, a popular database of enzymes and metabolic pathways in model organisms, is moving to a subscription model.  The email is posted below in its … Continue reading →