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Five Questions With Alexis Temkin, Searching For Links Between Deepwater Horizon & Human Health

Alexis Temkin stands in marsh grass holding a reptile.

Sequencing at Sea: Studying Small Things Using Big Equipment

"Barely a room onboard escaped being turned into a part of the sequencing laboratory," wrote Rob Edwards in a blog post about doing genomic sequencing at sea.

Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.

From Field to Lab: How Carbon Seeps Provide a Chance to See Future Impacts of Ocean Acidification

Tiny organisms found on ARMS

Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

A diver collects water samples.