The Laurence Gould returns to Palmer Station! A few days behind schedule so it's going to be a crazy port call to get everything ready for the Palmer LTER cruise. Beth will depart Palmer Station for the cruise on Saturday morning if all goes well... #palmer_2023 #bowmanlabsio

Still seeking interested students and postdocs to help organize this year's OCB summer workshop plenary sessions! forms.gle/HbpXKkZh2azaq2… Please submit your expression of interest by Jan. 23!

Who says penguins can't fly? Absolutely appalling sea state while sampling today, but hey, flying penguins! #palmer2023 #bowmanlabsio

The LMG returns! We're expecting a very fast turnaround and should be underway to Punta Arenas in 30 hours or so. It's been an amazing season but look forward to getting home... #palmer2023

And we're off! Thank you Palmer Station for an amazing season (which continues for Beth Connors for several more weeks). Time to rock and roll our way back across the Drake...

Congrats to Srishti Dasarathy for her new paper in GRL! Summertime aerosols in the Southern Ocean likely linked to biological activity. doi.org/10.1029/2022GL… #bowmanlabsio

#AbGradCon2023 is coming to Scripps Institution of Oceanography Scripps Institution of Oceanography! Abstract submission and more information at abgradcon.org

For the early career astrobiologists out there... abstract submission closes at midnight tonight!

New postdoctoral research opportunity! polarmicrobes.org/new-postdoctor…

Quantifying marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) efficacy and uncertainty #OCB2023 Speakers M Long, M Tyka, J DeAngelo - more soon! (Chairs P Rafter, J Palter, T DeVries, N Wiseman, D Nicholson) Register web.whoi.edu/ocb-workshop Apply for lightning talk forms.gle/zhixxFn3AyqRcy…

Join us for discussions about the latest studies on the carbon cycle in marginal seas Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) #OCB2023

It's a dino party, who can ask for more, the water's really stinky, leave your epitheca at the door... ifcb.caloos.org/timeline?datas…

Check out PhD candidate Natalia Erazo Natalia Erazo and her involvement with the National Microbiome Data Collaborative Ambassador Program! They're striving for FAIR multi-omics data & metadata stewardship among microbiome researchers across the country. nature.com/articles/s4156…

It's not pretty but it works! In addition to our topside membrane inlet mass spec and IFCB the #scrippsecologicalobservatory now has a CTD with dissolved O2 and fluorescence and a SUNA NO3- sensor. Thanks Riley Hale, Caitlyn, and amazing undergrads for their hard work!

New paper led by former Bowman Lab postdoc Avishek Dutta out today on Antarctic MAGs! Lots of novel diversity and chemoautotrophic potential frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #bowmanlabsio #Antarctica

So great to see AbGradCon in person! At SIO! #AbGradCon2023 #Astro4Life

After 4 weeks of daily micro plate measurements, our Masters student Ruth finished her co-culture experiment looking into increased growth rates of Dunaliella salina when co-cultured with various halophilic archaea & bacteria in different salinities. Exciting results to come!

The world's largest microbiology meeting and I can't find a mask, what's up ASM? #ASMicrobe

PhD students Riley Hale Riley Hale and Benjamin Klempay Benjamin Klempay dove to retrieve a sample of Newlight Technologies plastic cutlery for a study assessing the microbial degradation of various plastic types in marine environments! Stay tuned for more results on the study

Bowman Lab member Beth Connors is back in Antarctica for a THIRD field season! She will spend 6 months on ice studying bacteria and carbon flow at #PalmerStation. More photos coming soon!!