Dramatic impacts on beach microbial communities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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By , on June 6th, 2012 11 comments   Conservation & Environment, Ecology, Microbes, New Research, Oil Spills, Organisms, Uncategorized   , , , , , , , , , , ,  

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

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Our badass 454 sequencing reveals awesome deep-sea insights
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By , on November 30th, 2011 One comment   New Research, Uncategorized   , , , , , ,  

Make no mistake about it — I am shamelessly pimping out our lab’s new paper, written by yours truly. In fact, the title of this blog post was actually an alternate name for the manuscript (although I’d love to see the reviewer comments on that title). Technology is absolutely ridiculous these days. My iPhone is . . . → Read More: Our badass 454 sequencing reveals awesome deep-sea insights

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A great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
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By , on August 12th, 2011 2 comments   Ecology, Mating & Reproduction, Organisms, Weird   , , ,  

Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I recently attended the Society of Nematology’s 50th Anniversary meeting, where the plenary topic was….traumatic insemination. This was the subsequent topic of conversation for the next four days. “Write a blog . . . → Read More: A great day for a little Traumatic Insemination

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Marine Fungi are Totally Badass
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By , on August 3rd, 2011 9 comments   Microbes, Organisms   , , ,  

That’s right, you heard me—there are mushrooms that live in the sea. OK, well technically a mushroom is a fruiting body of a fungus with a cap, stem and gills, but lets take some dramatic liberties and run with it. A new draft manuscript recently necessitated that I review the literature on marine fungi – . . . → Read More: Marine Fungi are Totally Badass

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