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June 27, 2018

The Search for Life’s Origins Finds Clues in Geoscience

Biophysicist Dieter Braun presents during the Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life annual meeting

May 07, 2018

2018 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Announced

A microbial community around a marine diatom (in white). Motile bacteria (their tracks are in blue) accumulate near the diatom to utilise organic matter leaking from it.

March 23, 2018

Ancient Salt Rock Suggests Oxygen Surged in Early Atmosphere, Princeton University News

A sample of 2-billion-year-old salt (pink-white recrystallized halite) with embedded fragments of calcium sulfate from a geological drill core in Russian Karelia

March 08, 2018

Self-Driving Robots Collect Water Samples To Create Snapshots of Ocean Microbes, University of Hawai’i News

Long Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (LRAUVs) on deck to track and study ocean microbes

March 05, 2018

African Research Discovery Camp: Biogeochemical Oceanography in Upwelling Ecosystems

Two gloved hands with water and sediment inside

February 13, 2018

Exploring the Microbiome of an Ocean Bacteria, Earth Institute News

Columbia University graduate student Kyle Frischkorn ready to deploy the net he uses to capture the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium

December 18, 2017

Single Equation Describes Process Behind Bacterial Adaptation, Technical University of Munich

Bacterial cultures in a temperature bath

October 02, 2017

Modeling Ocean Ecosystems: The 2016 Gradients Cruise

Image depicting the course of the 2016 Gradients Cruise