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MOSAiC is go!

Posted on September 21, 2019 by Jeff

From the tropics to the Arctic… I spent last week in Tromsø , Norway helping prepare the German icebreaker Polarstern for the MOSAiC year-long polar drift expedition. As I’ve written in past posts, I’ve been waiting for this moment since … Continue reading →

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Cayapas-Mataje Redux

Posted on September 8, 2019 by Jeff

Natalia Erazo and I are on our way back from an amazing week of sampling in the Cayapas-Mataje Ecological Reserve in northern Ecuador. We first visited the reserve in 2017 and have been anxious to return ever since. Our objectives … Continue reading →

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Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Jeff

A couple of months ago I was fortunate to have the opportunity to give a lecture at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps in the Perspectives on Ocean Science lecture series. The lecture covered some emerging topics in Arctic Oceanography and … Continue reading →

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OAST visits the South Bay Saltworks

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Jeff

Last week we were busy hosting the inaugural Oceans Across Space and Time (OAST, @Space Oceans OAST on Facebook) combined first year meeting and field effort. It was a crazy week but a huge success. The goal of OAST is … Continue reading →

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CAREER proposal funded

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Jeff

I’m thrilled to learn that my CAREER proposal was just funded by NSF-OPP, though I’m slightly disappointed that they made me change the title from IM-HAPPIER: Investigating Marine Heterotrophic Antarctic Processes, Paradigms, and Inferences through Research and Education to Understanding … Continue reading →

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Discover America visits SIO

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Jeff

Thanks to Jesse and Natalia for their help yesterday with the Discover America program run by the US State Department; SIO successfully hosted 35 foreign ambassadors and their spouses for an educational tour of the Scripps Pier. It was quite … Continue reading →

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MOSAiC in the news!

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Jeff

As a quick followup to Emelia’s post (https://www.polarmicrobes.org/training-for-mosaic-bremerhaven-utqiagvik/) on training for MOSAiC, there is a nice piece out today in the Washington Post on the US-based training for MOSAiC here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/science/arctic-sea-ice-expedition-to-study-climate-change/?utm_term=.2552b79d5a32. It’s alarming to realize that Polarstern will depart from … Continue reading →

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Tutorial: Basic heatmaps and ordination with paprica output

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Jeff

The output from our paprica pipeline for microbial community structure analysis and metabolic inference has changed quite a lot over the last few months. In response to some recent requests here’s a tutorial that walks through an ordination and a … Continue reading →

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New paper on seagrass microbial ecology

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Jeff

We have a new paper out today on the impacts of coastal seagrasses on the microbial community structure of San Diego Bay.  I’m excited about this paper as the first student-led study to come out of my lab.  The study … Continue reading →

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New paper on Antarctic microbial dark matter

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Jeff

I’m happy to report that I have a new paper out this week in Frontiers in Microbiology titled Identification of Microbial Dark Matter in Antarctic Environments. I thought that it would be interesting to see how well different Antarctic environments … Continue reading →

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