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- Local installation of DeepTMHMM December 3, 2025
- A simple solution for continuous, real-time monitoring with the Seabird SUNAV2 over RS232 March 22, 2025
- New postdoctoral position in pathogen ecology September 25, 2024
- Seeking postdoc in phytoplankton ecology August 27, 2024
- Recent blog post by PhD student Beth Connors February 13, 2024
- New paper: Antarctic metagenomes reveal novel microbial diversity May 19, 2023
- New postdoctoral research opportunity! April 7, 2023
- Alignment and phylogenetic inference with hmmalign and RAxML-ng May 31, 2022
- New paper on using machine learning to predict biogeochemistry from microbial community structure February 12, 2022
- Lab manager position open! January 15, 2022
Author Archives: Jeff
Sea ice biogeochemistry postdoc position
There’s a great sea ice biogeochemistry/microbiology postdoc position open in Jaqueline Stefels group at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Jaqueline is one of the leading experts on the marine sulfur cycle and the project focuses on the DMS/DMSP … Continue reading
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A tale of two studies: Big Data and a cautionary analogy
One of the chapters of my dissertation was just rejected for publication a second time. I haven’t decided what to do with it yet, but in the meantime it makes an interesting case study in rejection. In brief, what we … Continue reading
Antarctic frost flower paper submitted
Moments ago I finally submitted the final frost flower paper from my PhD, a paper which first found life as Appendix 2 in my dissertation. Once upon a time I thought this particular project was going to be the central … Continue reading
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70 Degrees South film tour
I only just learned about 70 Degrees South, a documentary film project funded by Rutgers University and the National Science Foundation. The documentary features the science and scenery of the Palmer Long Term Ecological Research Project. In support of the … Continue reading
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Polar science on Reddit
I’m a member of the Association of Polar Early Career Researchers (APECS), an international group of young(ish) scientists that tries to raise awareness on Polar issues. In recognition of International Polar Week the US branch of APECS, US-APECS, is going … Continue reading
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Some climate fun with Google Earth
My postdoctoral adviser at Lamont showed me something really cool today that I suspect is pretty common knowledge (it was new to me!). Google Earth has a feature that allows you to view historic aerial/satellite photos for any point on … Continue reading
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Dimension reduction with PCA
I recently had an interesting problem that I think I successfully solved using principal component analysis (PCA). PCA is one of a family of multivariate statistical methods known as ordinations. Frankly it, and related techniques, scare me a little. They’re … Continue reading
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Got the reviews blues
I’ve got this cool idea Think about it everyday Put it in a proposal Then NSF took my idea awaaaay I’ve got the review blues… We got some surprising reviews back yesterday on a proposal to NSF Polar Programs. We … Continue reading
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Sea ice biogeochemistry methods review
I was excited to learn that our long awaited sea ice biogeochemistry review was published today in the journal Elementa. Many of the contributors to the project are members of the SCOR working group Biogeochemical Exchange Processes at Sea Ice … Continue reading
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DHPS: Taking a dip in the DOC pool
An interesting paper was recently published by Durham et al. in PNAS: Cryptic carbon and sulfur cycling between surface ocean plankton. The all-star author list includes members of the Armbrust Lab at the University of Washington, the Moran Lab at … Continue reading
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