by Hannah Appiah-Madson | Nov 14, 2024 | News Briefs
By Hannah Appiah-Madson and Dan Distel. Two decades ago, the Ocean Genome Legacy (OGL) embarked on an ambitious mission to realize the vision of its founder, Donald G. Comb, to advance knowledge and protect the marine environment by preserving, cataloging, and sharing...
by Ryan Pianka | Oct 31, 2023 | In the field, News Briefs
Behold the mighty Bobbit worm, striking from the seafloor! Image Credit: Daniel Kwok CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 It’s October again and that means one thing: it’s the time of year for ghosts, goblins, and spooky monsters. Fantastical creatures like these might make the real world...
by Dan Distel | Oct 12, 2023 | In the field, In the lab, News Briefs, Research
Did you know that 75–90% of the estimated 1–2 million species living in the world’s ocean remain undiscovered and undescribed? Together, these species constitute the ocean’s taxonomic dark matter—the critical portion of life’s diversity hidden beneath the waves. To...
by Zack Anderson | Jul 22, 2023 | In the field, Research
There is no Earth 2, but there is Biosphere 2—an experimental ecosystem entirely isolated from Earth’s atmosphere and ocean. Built more than 30 years ago in Arizona, Biosphere 2 was created as an experimental life raft designed to test the feasibility of creating...
by Dan Distel | Jan 19, 2023 | In the lab, News Briefs, Research
By Dan Distel, Hannah Appiah-Madson, Rosie Poulin, and Zack Anderson January 19, 2023 We are all familiar with the genetic code—the simple set of three-letter words that translate the As, Ts, Cs, and Gs of DNA into the diverse and complex forms we know as animal life....
