February 2012
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WOMEN IN GENOME SCIENCES
Presents:
Karen James, PhD
Visiting Staff Scientist
MDI Biological Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine
“DNA, Diversity and Darwin”
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
10:00am – 11:00am
Foege Auditorium, 060
Karen is a biologist at MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, where she is building a new project to use DNA-assisted species identification (“DNA barcoding”) to empower visitors...
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Might be a chilly one tomorrow!
A low of 26F and Rain/Snow. (That would be -3C!)
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Ocean Sciences (Friday)
Last day of the conference! This was the second full day of OA talks, including mine (which went fine). There were more talks on the effects of multiple stressors, e.g. varying light and pCO2 effects on corals. There were also a lot of phytoplankton and bacteria talks. Phil Munday gave a great talk on the potential for adaptation to OA in clownfish larvae. They raised larvae at ambient and...
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I Am Science - Embracing Non-Traditional Paths to Science
Remember this series? What started as a collection of tweets is now assembled in an inspiring video. Life is a bumpy road that forks and loops and dead-ends, and the journey along it can be tough. If it doesn’t feel easy, you’re doing it right.
If it’s not easy to learn, you’re challenging yourself.
Everyone’s path is...
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Ocean Sciences (Thursday)
Today was the first full day of OA talks and it was a full one! The first session started out with a talk from Richard Zeebe (see his article in Annual Reviews, comparing current OA to potentially similar events in deep time. He talked about the possibility of liming the ocean to bring the alkalinity up and the pH up. I later asked him if he was serious about this since it sounded a lot like...
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Ocean Sciences (Wednesday)
Today was mostly plenary talks, 3 of which I really enjoyed. The first talk of the morning was by Demian Chapman from Stonybrook. He talked about his research on DNA barcoding and, more recently, developing a key to identify species of endangered sharks that are being traded on the shark fin market. It was fun for me to see this talk because I am familiar with some of his work since I did a...
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Ocean Sciences (Tuesday)
Today was a bit of a potpourri of talks. I learned more about biogeochemical cycles of continental margins in the morning. My take-away from that session was that, depending on the downwelling/upwelling regime, there are coastal areas that can be net sources of CO2 (i.e. CO2 outgasses into the atmosphere). This is because masses of water that have high concentrations of CO2, usually deep water,...
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Ocean Sciences (Monday)
Hello from Salt Lake City! It was a pretty slow day for me, talk-wise, but I did see a few interesting ones. This morning I went to the session Climate Change Impacts on Living Marine Resources. William Sydeman from the Farallon Institute talked about a meta analysis he (and coauthors) did since long time series of data were lacking for aquatic systems. They analyzed 2011 studies and across...
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Using Tumblr as a Lab Notebook!
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The Frog of War | Mother Jones →
DARNELL LIVES DEEP IN the basement of a life sciences building at the University of California-Berkeley, in a plastic tub on a row of stainless steel shelves. He is an African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, sometimes called the lab rat of amphibians. Like most of his species, he’s hardy and long-lived, an adept swimmer, a poor crawler, and a voracious eater. He’s a good breeder, too,...
Experimental approaches to characterize and...
The next installment of the 2012 Winter Quarter NWFSC Weekly Monster Seminar JAM series will feature Dr. Rick Goetz, Supervisory Research Physiologist, Resource Enhancement and Utilization Technologies Division, NWFSC. Dr. Goetz’s presentation entitled “Experimental approaches to characterize and determine the basis for phenotypic variation among lake trout morphotypes”, will...
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I am an invertebrate zoologist that specializes in the evolution and systematics of sea stars/starfish (asteroids). I am originally from San Francisco and now live in Washington, DC.
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Scientists and Social Media
WHAT: Scientists and Social Media: A half day of events on how scientists use social media to share their research and enhance their broader impacts.
WHEN: Monday, February 13
2:00 pm - Christie Wilcox, Scientific American Blogger and PhD student - “Why Every Lab Should Tweet”
3:30 pm - Liz Neeley, COMPASS - “Why Bother with Social Media”
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