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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 →

A new NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) opportunity was posted today for our Oceans Across Space and Time (OAST) initiative.  What’s OAST?  I can’t tell you yet, because the relevant press releases have been stuck in purgatory for several weeks.  Hopefully … Continue reading →

I was excited to learn today that our proposal CURE-ing microbes on ocean plastic, led by collaborators Ana Barral and Rachel Simmons at National University, was just funded by the National Science Foundation through the Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) program.  … Continue reading →

This week Alyssa Demko from the Jenkins Lab and I dove to make repairs on our sample pump intake on the SIO pier.  Very soon the pump will supply water to our membrane inlet mass spectrometer and biological sampling manifold, … Continue reading →

The Simons Foundation Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution (ECIMMEE) awards were announced today and I’m thrilled that the Bowman Lab was selected.  Our project is centered on using the SIO Pier as a unique platform for … Continue reading →

We have a paper “Recurrent seascape units identify key ecological processes along the western Antarctic Peninsula” that is now available via advance-online through the journal Global Change Biology.  I place full blame for this paper on my former postdoctoral advisor … Continue reading →

Hello! My name is Melissa Hopkins. I just finished my first quarter as an undergraduate researcher in the Bowman Lab. The project I am working on involves the diversity of halophiles from the South Bay Saltworks lakes in San Diego. … Continue reading →