When I don’t know enough about a subject, I tend to Google and data-mine—obsessively. So it has become with dispersants. In the wake of oil…
View More Dispersants! A multi-part series to enlighten your brains.Author: Holly Bik
I am a computational biologist at the University of California, Riverside. My research uses DNA sequencing and genomics to study microbial eukaryotes (yeah, nematodes!) in marine ecosystems, with an emphasis on evolution and biodiversity in the deep-sea. I can neither confirm nor deny that I like Unix more than I like going to sea.
Oh, snap! You mean 70% of oil is still THERE??
As you know, we’ve completely solved the Gulf oil spill and we can all go back to dreaming about puppies and sunshine (note sarcasm). Not…
View More Oh, snap! You mean 70% of oil is still THERE??“Eliminated” oil is actually just invisible, and not stuck to birds
Don’t be fooled by that fluffy, optimistic statistic you’re hearing all over the news this morning. The government is proclaiming that a whopping 75% of…
View More “Eliminated” oil is actually just invisible, and not stuck to birdsIf I had my way, we’d just sequence everything
Sometimes I find it really frustrating that all we ever talk about is species (granted, I am very guilty of this too). Is it new? …
View More If I had my way, we’d just sequence everythingEPIC WIN: Cruise Cruise Baby
Words cannot even express the pure genius contained in this video…
View More EPIC WIN: Cruise Cruise BabyPaul the Psychic Octopus
I have to post about this so that I can get it out of my system. Has anyone else been obsessed with “Paul the psychic…
View More Paul the Psychic OctopusRevealing life at the Ridge
Some amazing new pictures were released this week from the final cruise of the ECOMAR program, focused around the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone on the Mid-Atlantic…
View More Revealing life at the RidgeInvisible But Not Forgotten
I’m sure you’ve noticed by now how much the media loves tug-on-the-heartstrings images of oiled birds, dead fish and mile-wide slicks. But have you heard…
View More Invisible But Not Forgotten