Author Archives: 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Abstract submissions are open for AbSciCon 2019!  You can check out the full selection of sessions here, however, I’d like to draw your attention toward the session Salty Goodness: Understanding life, biosignature preservation, and brines in the Solar System.  This … Continue reading →

This is a quick post of a few photos from our trip to the South Bay Saltworks earlier this week.  Thanks to PhD students Natalia, Emelia, and Srishti for getting up early to go play in the mud, and to … Continue reading →

Sometimes working weekends can be a lot of fun.  Last Saturday morning we carried out the second Scripps Institution of Oceanography visit by undergraduate biology majors from National University for our NSF-funded project CURE-ing Microbes on Ocean Plastics.  We recovered … Continue reading →

This post has been a long time in coming!  I’m happy to announce that our Oceans Across Space and Time (OAST) proposal to the NASA Astrobiology Program has been funded, launching a 5 year, 8+ institution effort to improve life … Continue reading →