Metagenomics is so easy to understand, right? Scientists just go out and get DNA sequences from…stuff…in the environment. And then they answer lots of questions, like….um… Yeah sometimes I’m lost too. In metagenomics, researchers collect ocean water or soil samples and sequence random bits of DNA from whatever blob of gunk they collect–they end up . . . → Read More: So you think you know Marine Metagenomics?
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By Dr Bik, on  March 9th, 2013  2 comments  Ecology, Fish, Microbes, Organisms  cyanobacteria, DNA, Gene, Global Ocean Survey, iron, Metabolism, metagenomics, parrotfish, submarine 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 para_sight, on May 19th, 2011 5 comments Adaptations, Ecology, Evolution, Fish, Organisms, Uncategorized manta, Metabolism, physiology, rays, shark, tuna Driving through more remote parts of the Australian countryside when I was a young tacker, my Dad would often stop the old Mazda Capella so that we kids could investigate some reptilian thing warming itself on the black road surface; it was usually a fat shingleback or bombastic blue tongue, but sometimes a lovely red-bellied . . . → Read More: A bunch of hot heads
By Dr. M, on March 21st, 2010 6 comments Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Microbes, New Research, Organisms, Plankton bad language, carbon budget, carbon cycle, deep sea, flux, Metabolism [Note the following post makes gratuitous use of keyboard symbols to denote adult language] In the coolest titled paper ever “Assessing the apparent imbalance between geochemical and biochemical indicators of meso- and bathypelagic biological activity: What the @$#! is wrong with present calculations of carbon budgets?” with the world’s coolest handling editor, Burd et al . . . → Read More: What the @$#! is wrong with carbon budgets?
By Dr. M, on April 13th, 2009 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biology, Environmental Sciences, Geology, Microbes, New Research, Organisms, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls anoxic, brine, Gulf of Mexico, Metabolism, methane, Microbe, microbial, National Science Foundation, noxious, oil and gas, origins of life, primordial, seep, Texas A&M University, University of Georgia A mineral chimney and microbe mats on the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico. Mineral chimneys are associated with sea vents that release oil and gas. The microbe mats are lying on sediments next to the mineral chimney. Credit: Ian MacDonald, Texas A&M University …takes more than a Red Bull. You got to have . . . → Read More: Thriving In Extreme Conditions
By Dr. M, on December 25th, 2006 2 comments The Basics Antarctica, Hydrothermal Vent, Mediterranean, Metabolism, Temperature, Thermocline You may remember from high school or college chemistry that temperature affects the rate of chemical reactions. A reaction between two molecules can only occur if those two molecules collide with sufficient energy (collision theory). Heating causes molecules to gain energy, increasing their velocity (kinetic theory). A higher velocity increases the probability of two molecules . . . → Read More: ARCHIVE: 25 Things You Should Know About the Deep Sea: #13 Extreme Temperatures Affect Biological Rates
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