Category Archives: Research
New paper on using machine learning to predict biogeochemistry from microbial community structure
Congratulations to Avishek Dutta for his paper Machine Learning Predicts Biogeochemistry from Microbial Community Structure in a Complex Model System that was recently published in the journal Microbiology Spectrum. I’m really excited about this paper; the study it is based … Continue reading
New paper on protein adaptations to high salinity and low temperature
Congratulations to Luke Piszkin (now a PhD student in the Biophysics Department at the University of Notre Dame) for the first paper in the lab to be first-authored by an undergraduate! Luke’s paper is titled Extremophile enzyme optimization for low … Continue reading
New paper on detecting successful mitigation of sulfide production
Congrats to Avishek Dutta for his new paper “Detection of sulfate-reducing bacteria as an indicator for successful mitigation of sulfide production” currently available as an early view in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. This was intended to be the second of … Continue reading
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New paper connecting aerosol optical depth to sea ice cover and ocean color
Congratulations to Srishti Dasarathy for her first first-authored publication! Srishti’s paper “Multi-year Seasonal Trends in Sea Ice, Chlorophyll Concentration, and Marine Aerosol Optical Depth in the Bellingshausen Sea” is out in advance of print in JGR Atmospheres. This paper was … Continue reading
Sampling mangroves in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon
Last week PhD student Natalia Erazo and I were fortunate to get back into the field after a long pandemic hiatus. Our mission was to collect mangrove propagules (essentially a detachable bud from which the mangrove seedling sprouts) from the … Continue reading
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New paper on microbial community structure in coastal Southern California
Congrats to postdoctoral researcher Jesse Wilson for his new paper in Environmental Microbiology Recurrent microbial community types driven by nearshore and seasonal processes in coastal Southern California. Although considerable microbiology work has taken place at the Ellen Browning Scripps Pier … Continue reading
New paper on microbial life in hypersaline environments
Congrats to Benjamin Klempay for his first, first-authored publication in the lab! (wow, didn’t I just write that??) Benjamin is part of the Oceans Across Space and Time (OAST) project and his paper, Microbial diversity and activity in Southern California … Continue reading
New paper on shrimp aquaculture in mangrove forests
Congrats to Natalia Erazo for her first first-authored publication in the lab! Her paper, Sensitivity of the mangrove-estuarine microbial community to aquaculture effluent, appears in a special issue of the journal iScience. The publication is the culmination of our 2017 … Continue reading
New paper on microbial community dynamics in up-flow bioreactors
Congrats to Avishek Dutta for his first publication in the Bowman Lab: Understanding Microbial Community Dynamics in Up-Flow Bioreactors to Improve Mitigation Strategies for Oil Souring. Avishek did a remarkable job of resurrecting a stagnant dataset and turning it into … Continue reading
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New paper linking the SCCOOS and AGAGE datasets
Postdoctoral researcher Jesse Wilson has a new paper titled Using empirical dynamic modeling to assess relationships between atmospheric trace gases and eukaryotic phytoplankton populations in coastal Southern California in press in the journal Marine Chemistry. This paper is the culmination … Continue reading
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