Beth is an U.S. postdoc scientist at the Center for Geomicrobiology in Denmark studying tiny microbes that live at the bottom of the ocean and their role in global processes. You can check out her website to learn more about her work. Greetings, lovers of the ocean depths! I sheepishly pop my head back in . . . → Read More: Scientist in Residence: Beth Orcutt – “There is More to the Marine Subsurface than Sediments”
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By Archie Teuthis, on  July 19th, 2011  Leave a comment  Geology, Microbes, Scientist!  Beth Orcutt, crust, JASON II, Scientist In Residence, sediments, Subsurface By Dr Bik, on June 14th, 2011 One comment Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Invertebrate Wars, Microbes, Uncategorized Bacteria, climate change, human impact, jellyfish, Microbes Mufasa was right. We’re all intertwined. Whether we humans like to admit it or not, every action by a living organism on Earth has repercussions. (And yes, you can lump in viruses and prions because I’m not getting into a philosophical debate about what constitutes ‘living’). Run, Harry! You don't want to catch Irukandji syndrome!!! . . . → Read More: The Circle of Life (and how Jellyfish screw it up)
By Dr. M, on June 8th, 2011 4 comments Expeditions, Life At Sea, Microbes, Scientist! Beth Orcutt, Scientist In Residence, World Ocean Day Beth is an U.S. postdoc scientist at the Center for Geomicrobiology in Denmark studying tiny microbes that live at the bottom of the ocean and their role in global processes. You can check out her website to learn more about her work. Hello My Name is Beth Orcutt I’ve recently been spending an obsessive amount . . . → Read More: Scientist In Residence: Beth Orcutt Introduces Herself
By Dr Bik, on May 14th, 2011 One comment Microbes, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls 16S, archaea, Bacteria, DNA, high-throughput sequencing, hydrotermal vent, Lost City, Microbes, rRNA I recently reported on the awesomeness of high-throughput sequencing technologies, and commented on their huge potential for transforming the way biologists do business. (Seriously, people, its going to be like the renaissance of 21st century science – you heard it here first!) As a follow up to my previous post, I wanted to highlight this . . . → Read More: Predicting Microbial Communities in the Deep-sea
By Dr Bik, on April 26th, 2011 6 comments Biodiversity, Ecology, Microbes, New Species 454, DNA, Illumina, metagenomics, Microbes, RB Editor's Selection, sequencing If you’ve ever talked to me in person for more than 5 minutes, I’ve probably mentioned the !#$%*ING AWESOMENESS of high-throughput sequencing. Frankly, I’m a bit obsessed. If my life were an SAT analogy, it would be Dr Bik:Sequencing platforms as Teenage Girls:Twilight. My gorgeous Illumina never sleeps (runs 2 weeks straight for a . . . → Read More: Metagenomics: Transforming our understanding of oceans
By Dr. M, on February 18th, 2011 3 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Microbes, New Species, Oil Spills, Uncategorized via Toxic blob drifting in Gulf mystifies scientists | HeraldTribune.com. Just off the Florida Panhandle coastline, within site of Perdido Key, an underwater mass of dead sea life that appears to be growing as microscopic algae and bacteria get trapped and die has been found by scientists. Early samples indicate the glob is at least 3 . . . → Read More: Better Hide The Kids…Hide The Wife…A Toxic Blob Is Adrift
By Archie Teuthis, on January 21st, 2011 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biodiversity, Environmental Sciences, Life Science, Microbes, New Research diatoms, forams, iron, Scientist In Residence In a recent paper, de Jonge et al used x-ray fluorescence tomography to give us a new perspective on how diatoms put together those phenomenally intricate frustules of theirs. “X-ray whosamagidget” you say? My thoughts exactly. Let’s break it down. First: X-rays. High-energy waves that help doctors see our bones. Check. Second: fluorescence. Fluorescence is . . . → Read More: Scientist In Residence: Danny Richter on Diatoms and X-ray Whosamagidgets
By Dr. M, on November 21st, 2010 Leave a comment Environmental Sciences, Evolution, Geology, Microbes, New Research, New Species, Uncategorized baslt, biosphere, crust, DNA, Geology, massif, microbial, North Atlantic, ridge Map of the Altantis Massif showing the locations of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expeditions 304 and 305, Hole 1309D (yellow circle) and the Lost City Hydrothermal Field (green circle). From Mason et al. 2010 A flurry of new research is redefining our views on where life resides on Earth. The biosphere is the zone . . . → Read More: Finding Life Where the Sun Don’t Shine
By Dr. M, on September 16th, 2010 Leave a comment Adaptations, Microbes, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls acid, bicarbonate, formate, glycolysis, holy shit!, hydrogen, Thermococcus The basic energy molecule for life is ATP, adenosine triphosphate. It fuels all those cellular reactions that life needs. To produce one mol of ATP requires 70 kilojoules. That’s about 16 calories for reference. One kilojoule is near the maximum amount of solar radiation received by a square meter on Earth every second. When animals convert glucose . . . → Read More: Why Glycolysis Sucks! Formate 4-Evah!
By Dr. M, on August 24th, 2010 5 comments Industry & Government, Microbes, Oil Spills BP, conflict of interest, Gulf of Mexico, microbial, Oil Spill, plume The internets are a buzz with a new paper published in Science. You may recall I covered the new paper by Camilli et al. in Science demonstrating that a deep-water oil plume did exist, conclusively, in Gulf of Mexico at the time the researchers sampled, approximately May-June. One of the interesting findings was that at . . . → Read More: Plumes, Microbes, and Hypoxia…Did, Do, or Will They Exist in the Gulf
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