@extrememicrobe.bsky.social
Professor at University of Alaska Anchorage. Geomicrobiology, applied microbiology critical minerals. Come for the science stay for the Alaskan adventure
Finally made it to Prague for #Goldschmidt2025
07.07.2025 05:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And now you know what I will be doing this spring break. Remodeling a significant part of the kitchen.
24.02.2025 17:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We just bought a new one. Ours was ~20yrs
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Register for Exploration of Alaskan Microbial Ecology at UAonline.com CRN: 51181
#microsky #microbiology I will be teaching a 2-week summer course on Microbial Ecology in Alaska. The course will have a 3 day field trip to some of the most spectacular glaciers and mud volcanos in Alaska. UAA is open enrollment university so anyone can join but space is limited.
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Windy hike but was rewarded with a great view, 2moose, Dall sheep, and an eagle.
18.01.2025 23:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tree that fell on fence
Had some strong winds over the weekend. I guess I have plenty of firewood now. Luckily it missed the house.
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3D printed tube holder and a name plate that says Lab Dad (Dr. Brandon Briggs)
Student got a new 3D printer and this is what they decided to print first.
10.01.2025 21:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University.
www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/
Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided.
Details in the attached pic--Feb 13 deadline
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Ever wonder about the history of the Arctic, North Pacific, and Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska from an Indigenous perspective? Available for pre-order now! Oral history centered: 🗃️ uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
29.12.2023 05:33 — 👍 52 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 2Hey, saltwater scientists! Want to live on the Maine coast and serve as Director of the Darling Marine Center? Four Asst. Prof. positions are available in the College of Earth, Life, and Health, too: Biochemistry; Physical Oceanography; Microbiology; Soil Science
umaine.hiretouch.com/job-details?...
Two hikers walk down a mountain in snow with Anchorage Alaska and Cook Inlet in the background
Lunch on a mountain was the perfect way to end 2023
01.01.2024 00:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Open rank position in microbial ecology and evolution, broadly defined. Great opportunity to join my wonderful department of Microbiology at Michigan State. Best science and colleagues! careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/51...
24.12.2023 20:27 — 👍 30 🔁 38 💬 1 📌 0
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Authigenic minerals reflect microbial control on pore waters in a ferruginous analogue
by a bunch of great minds working on the Towuti #ICDP project
www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2339/
The course lectures & symposium talks from the 2023 @isbsci.bsky.social Virtual Microbiome Series are now edited & posted to YouTube! If you have students who need a crash course in 16S data analysis or community-scale metabolic modeling, send them here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
08.12.2023 17:08 — 👍 28 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0
Our local moose came back for thanksgiving. We might have to come up with a name for him.
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A “little” visitor in my backyard today
16.11.2023 19:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Check out our new paper that just came out. We looked at iron related genes in a glacial influenced river. We found that in the freshwater microbes employ Feo system but in an estuary they produce siderophores but the type changes throughout the year.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
Wow, that was a full day! 1 grant funded, 1 grant waitlisted (1st time that happened), and a paper accepted for publication.
01.11.2023 04:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy to finally share this work. This is our 1st step to creating a sustainable bioprocess to obtain REE. We found S. onidenisis was able to extract more REE from healy coal but acid leaching worked better on Wishbone hill coal pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
26.10.2023 14:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have thought long and hard on what my first post here should be and this is what I came up with.
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