microBEnet Fieldwork: Wastewater Treatment Plant

By David Coil Posted in .Featured Water Systems

Posted on May 22, 2018May 23, 2018

So yesterday morning, Jonathan Eisen and myself headed down to Antioch, CA to sample a pilot wastewater treatment facility. In a couple of hours I went from knowing literally nothing about the process to having some handle on at least the latter stages. Pretty cool microbiology. As I understand the problem at hand, conventional wastewater …

What microbes are lurking in your fish tank? Good candidate for some citizen microbiology I think

By Jonathan Eisen Posted in Citizen Science Social Media

Posted on August 20, 2011February 8, 2018

Recently I wrote here about a new report on a citizen microbiology effort focusing on microbes in water heaters: More on citizen microbiology project from @Penn_State & @NASA on thermophiles in water heaters via @scicheer @Sci4Cits Well, a new paper in PLoS One (PLoS ONE: Aquarium Nitrification Revisited: Thaumarchaeota Are the Dominant Ammonia Oxidizers in Freshwater …