by Annie Evankow | Dec 7, 2017 | News Briefs
When you imagine the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, you probably think about ice and penguins. You may not realize that there are astounding species that thrive in these cold, stable, oxygen-rich waters. We are pleased to announce that Ocean Genome Legacy...
by Annie Evankow | Aug 14, 2017 | News Briefs
In the past year, Ocean Genome Legacy (OGL) has been recruiting people from all walks of life to help document and preserve the deep offerings of our oceans. On September 10, you can too! OGL co-hosted Bioblitzes across the country with citizen scientists and future...
by Annie Evankow | Feb 2, 2017 | News Briefs
How can you find and identify fish without catching them? That’s a question Mark Stoeckle aims to answer with a bucket of water and DNA. Dr. Stoeckle, from the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University, visited Ocean Genome Legacy (OGL) and the...
by Annie Evankow | Nov 18, 2016 | News Briefs
Corals are stressed! Rising seawater temperatures and other human-caused changes are stressing out corals, causing bleaching and diseased reefs around the world. Now, Ocean Genome Legacy’s (OGL) coral genome collection is helping scientists discover what makes some...
by Annie Evankow | Oct 27, 2016 | News Briefs
There’s a fish that flaps its fins like a bird, eats jellies, and likes to sunbathe—and this month, Ocean Genome Legacy (OGL) received its valuable fully sequenced genome. The ocean sunfish, the largest bony fish and one of the most bizarre species in the world, is...
