Gulf Coast Geomicrobiology

03/08/2023

Happy International Women's Day to every incredible woman out there 😊🙏🙋‍♀️💐
shine on... not just today but every day!



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12/26/2022

Check out this article about the beginning of our journey!

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12/26/2022

We are on the move! Footage from yesterday’s departure from Lyttleton, NZ.

To follow along on our journey on the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer stay tuned for blog posts and track our ship here:

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:426075/zoom:18

📸: Rachel Weisend (rew_bgc on instagram)

05/03/2021

Zombie microbes at it again

The permafrost isn’t permanent. For the last hundred years, Earth’s average surface temperature has climbed. That means the active layer has gotten slightly warmer, which can melt off the top layer of permafrost. Rising temps mean more melting ice. And as Hoover discovered, when ancient ice melt...

04/07/2021

Even if you've never seen the ocean or touched the ocean, know that the ocean touches you with every breath you take and every drop of water you drink. The world is basically a blue planet.

03/29/2021

The deep biosphere is a harsh environment to study. Why?This is part of Project VIDEO (Virtual, Interactive Dark Energy Outreach), in collaboration with C-DE...

03/24/2021

New publication from our research group focusing on new isolates from western flank of mid Atlantic ridge sediments.

We report the draft genomes of environmental cultures collected from shallow sediment from the western flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The isolates were most closely related to Idiomarina abyssalis strain KJE (100% complete), Marinobacter salarius strain NP2017 (97.6% complete), and Marinobacter salarius strain AT3901 (98.4% complete). Isolates identified as an Idiomarina species possess complete nitrite oxidation and reduction pathways, and isolates identified as a Marinobacter species possess complete dissimilatory nitrate reduction pathways.

We report the draft genomes of environmental cultures collected from shallow sediment from the western flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The isolates were most closely related to Idiomarina abyssalis strain KJE (100% complete), Marinobacter salarius strain NP2017 (97.6% complete), and Marinobacter sa...

12/20/2020

Oh baby it’s a wild world

The most massive database of microbial gene sequences so far shows that the tree of life is much larger than we knew.

09/24/2020

Great work from Jessica Labonté and team!

New genetic evidence builds the case that single-celled marine microbes might chow down on viruses.