Bringing you some awesome ocean sounds this Friday–nope, not crashing waves or squawking seagulls (boo hiss for vertebrates). These sounds come from MICROBES! Peter Larsen and colleagues at Argonne National Lab (home of the gargantuan Earth Microbiome Project) have turned their huge DNA sequence datasets into music. Listen to the jazzy samplings below (video), and . . . → Read More: TGIF: Some Friday jazz, courtesy of marine microbes
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By Dr Bik, on  October 5th, 2012  One comment  Pictures and Movies, Reviews  genomics, high-throughput sequencing, marine music, metagenomics, Microbes By Dr Bik, on September 13th, 2012 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, New Research economics, energy, genomics, integrated data, Metabolism, Microbes, recession, Temperature This might come as a shocker: I don’t care about metabolism (or bits of floating plastic, or whale sharks, or coral reefs…sorry Deeplings). Its not that I’m not interested – these fields are fascinating and scientifically important. But on a day-to-day basis, when I’m overloaded with data analysis, grant proposals, and a bursting inbox, I . . . → Read More: Capitalizing on recessions with economic booms of data
By Dr Bik, on August 28th, 2012 One comment Conservation & Environment, Fishing, Reviews documentary, Japan, movies, Overfishing, Sushi, sustainable fishery, Tokyo You might have guessed by now that I’m a *bit* obsessed with sushi. When I visited Japan for the first (and second) time, I bolted straight to Sushi Zanmai located outside the Tsukiji fish market. I ordered the salmon. It was transcendental. This weekend I was bowled over by the documentary “Jiro Dreams of Sushi“, . . . → Read More: Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and so do I
By Dr Bik, on August 8th, 2012 2 comments Microbes, New Research, New Species, Organisms, Uncategorized 18S rRNA, 454, eukaryotes, genomics, high-throughput sequencing, Labyrinthulids, metagenomics, Microbes At the end of May I received some awful news. My former lab manager reached out with an ominous phone call: a high school student I had mentored at the University of New Hampshire had tragically passed away. His name was Evan Dube, and he was attending his first year of university at Bates College . . . → Read More: Beaches, Trees, and Mysterious Species : A tribute to Evan
By Dr Bik, on July 18th, 2012 4 comments Conservation & Environment, New Research, Oil Spills, Uncategorized BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Oil Spill, salt marsh Another oil spill study hot off the presses! This new Silliman et al. PNAS paper is looking at the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on heavily-impacted salt marsh ecosystems around Barataria Bay, Louisiana. In contrast to our own badass study looking at oil impacts on sandy Gulf Coast beaches, marshlands provide a . . . → Read More: Gulf oil spill suffocated marsh grasses, enhanced erosion
By Dr Bik, on July 13th, 2012 2 comments Pictures and Movies, Reviews climate change, Dalai Lama, global warming, tgif, UCSD, video Did you know that the Dalai Lama works closely with scientists, and calls for the withdrawal of any Buddhist beliefs that contradict scientific evidence? Neither did I! For your Friday viewing pleasure, a great video of the Dalai Lama’s recent lecture at UC San Diego, where he discusses the need for humanitarian values and universal . . . → Read More: TGIF: The Dalai Lama on Climate Change
By Dr Bik, on June 23rd, 2012 Leave a comment Conferences, Microbes, New Research, Organisms archaea, Bacteria, Drinking, eukaryotes, Microbes, microbiology, ocean, viruses [View the story "#asm2012 - A Scientific Feast of Ocean Microbiology!" on Storify] By Dr Bik, on June 15th, 2012 2 comments Pictures and Movies, Reviews Overfishing, Sushi, sustainable fishery, tgif, video For your Friday viewing pleasure, I bring you the “Story of Sushi” – this video is kind of like Thomas the Tank Engine (the PBS show with the miniature people) meets the ASPCA commercial with the Sarah McLaughlin song. Must watch – the set design is incredible! The Story of Sushi from Bamboo Sushi on . . . → Read More: TGIF: The Story of Sushi
By Dr Bik, on June 6th, 2012 11 comments Conservation & Environment, Ecology, Microbes, New Research, Oil Spills, Organisms, Uncategorized 18S rRNA, Community Ecology, Deepwater Horizon, DNA Barcoding, Fungi, Gulf of Mexico, high-throughput sequencing, Meiofauna, metagenomics, nematodes, Oil Spill, plos one Ironically enough, I was at a meeting about oil spills when the Macondo well blew. The “Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) in Arctic waters” workshop brought scientists and industry contacts together to discuss the challenges and consequences of petroleum-related accidents in fragile polar habitats. I remember the BP executives had to step out to deal . . . → Read More: Dramatic impacts on beach microbial communities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
By Dr Bik, on June 4th, 2012 10 comments Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute If you haven’t read the Boston Globe Op-Ed, you must. Chris Reddy and Richard Camilli (oil spill research rockstars at Wood’s Hole) yesterday revealed information that made me feel physically ill: Late last week, we reluctantly handed over more than 3,000 confidential e-mails to BP, as part of a subpoena from the oil company demanding . . . → Read More: BP’s email subpoenas threaten to erode the scientific deliberative process
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