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…
View More Beaches, Trees, and Mysterious Species : A tribute to EvanAuthor: 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.
Gulf oil spill suffocated marsh grasses, enhanced erosion
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…
View More Gulf oil spill suffocated marsh grasses, enhanced erosionTGIF: The Dalai Lama on Climate Change
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…
View More TGIF: The Dalai Lama on Climate ChangeA Scientific Feast of Ocean Microbiology – notes from the #asm2012 conference in San Francisco
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View More A Scientific Feast of Ocean Microbiology – notes from the #asm2012 conference in San FranciscoTGIF: The Story of Sushi
For your Friday viewing pleasure, I bring you the “Story of Sushi” – this video is kind of like Thomas the Tank Engine (the PBS…
View More TGIF: The Story of SushiDramatic impacts on beach microbial communities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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…
View More Dramatic impacts on beach microbial communities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spillBP’s email subpoenas threaten to erode the scientific deliberative process
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…
View More BP’s email subpoenas threaten to erode the scientific deliberative processMicrobiology at Sea: A tale of ballast, vomit, and cockroaches
California has been a big transition for me. I mean big. Not only am I now living in the sun-drenched utopia I have long pined…
View More Microbiology at Sea: A tale of ballast, vomit, and cockroachesPuny Seagull vs. Badass Octopus
I just HAD to post this on DSN in case y’all missed Miriam’s links on Twitter. If you’re still on the fence in the vertebrates…
View More Puny Seagull vs. Badass OctopusIn the oceans, aliens lie hidden and waiting
The real title of the paper is “Multiple self-splicing introns in the 16S rRNA genes of giant sulfur bacteria”. But who’s going to fall out of…
View More In the oceans, aliens lie hidden and waiting