In light of the Cold Fire that started yesterday evening in the central valley of California, I started to wonder, ‘what happens to microbes?!’ I found myself in a literature click hole of fantastic papers that studied how fire impacted soil microbial communities in several different ecosystems. What surprised me most is how fast researchers …
Nice article on the Your Wild Life blog: Your Wild Life — A Whole New Way of Doing Citizen Science, Maybe. It discusses a collaobration between Your Wild Life and Holly Bik on visuliazation data from the citizen science – microbiome work that has been a part of the Your Wild Life project. The collaboration has involved …
Just a quick post here. Meg Pirrung from University of Colorado is conducting an online survey about data visualizations in microbial ecology as part of her PhD thesis work. From a post of her’s on Google Plus: The survey has 3 parts and then an optional demographic survey, and should take somewhere around 15 to …
I’ve been remotely following the Sloan MBE meeting discussions (happening in Boulder, CO this week), and yesterday there was a lot of Twitter discussion focused on data visualization tools. How do we make sense of the millions of DNA sequences we generate from microbial ecology projects in the Built Environment? I thought I’d use this opportunity to highlight …
Jessica Green gave another great TED talk recently, this time talking about engineering buildings to influence microbial communities. Check it out. The software that they’re developing in collaboration with Autodesk looks really cool.