Super cool: "Microbial biogeography along a 2578 km transect on the East Antarctic Plateau"

These scientists took a sailing-sled across the Antarctic plateau and described the microorganisms living air and ice.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

had a blast sampling high temperature steam tunnels for this project. highly recommend assisting this project to find some high temp amobae!

for those who love both ggplot and dual-axis plots, rejoice! #rstats #dataviz #tidyverse

anxiously waiting for the evac order to widen as 70+ mph winds tear through pasadena with a wildfire raging in the hills. multiple trees and power down in some areas. AQI is maxed out at 500. #eatonfire #losangeles #pasadenafire

Do you sample groundwater for subsurface geochemistry/microbiology? If so, check out the Open-source Well Geochemistry Logger (OpenWGL)! We developed a sensor array that can go down boreholes up to 1000m and is made out of commercially-available components (<~$1000)! github.com/tacaro/OpenWGL

apparently either everyone on this paper's middle name is 'null' or Frontiers journals are having a day today.

Not too shabby

SSRL at night. Always nice to take a walk while the xrays do the heavy lifting!

Serpentine and carbonate

Peridotite mountains, Samail Ophiolite, Sultanate of Oman. Looking for microbes and what they eat!

As my first post on bluesky, please enjoy pics of recent fieldwork at 1) an acid rock drainage site here in CO (pH = 3) and 2) a hyperalkaline seep at the Samail Ophiolite in Oman (pH = 11).

Hopefully can share more science soon!