microbial oceanography2
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Navigating the South Pacific Using DNA
I’ve never been good at navigating. When I come out of the subway I invariably turn the wrong direction, even though I already have my nose buried in Google Maps, and then walk around the block to save face.
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A Swirling Stew of Trichodesmium
Greetings from the center of that eddy I mentioned in my last post! We’ve been here for five days so far, but tomorrow we are finally moving on.
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Trichodesmium is Everywhere!
We have completed the first two stations of the OUTPACE cruise and we are steaming to Station 3. By noon tomorrow we should be in the center of an eddy that our colleagues back on dry land have used satellite data to identify.
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OUTPACE Cruise: Setting Sail
The OUTPACE 2015 cruise has set sail on February 20! We left port in Nouméa at 8:30 a.m. last Friday morning. I lost sight of land around 10 a.m. or so, and I won’t see it again until we return to port in Papeete, Tahiti on April 3.
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Genetic Maps Of Ocean Algae Show Bacteria-Like Flexibility
May Hold Clues to Future Climate

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