2016

Peter Girguis' Latest Seafloor Exploration Reveals Vast Methane-Driven Oasis

Peter Girguis' Latest Seafloor Exploration Reveals Vast Methane-Driven Oasis

June 30, 2016

Just miles off the coast of Los Angeles the Exploration Vessel Nautilus, with lead scientist, Peter Girguis, discovered an underwater field of oblong shaped chimneys shrouded in white and orange microbial mats in the Point Dume seep. "We've seen plenty of hydrothermal vents that form these kinds of chimneys," says Girguis, "but I've never seen these carbonate spires outside of the Black Sea." You can read about the discovery in...

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Pardis Sabeti Joins Research Teams to Build Tool to Help Untangle Genetic Variants

June 3, 2016

Pardis Sabeti is part of a multi-institutional research team that has demonstrated a tool to help untangle which genetic variants actually create risks for a host of diseases. The team, comprised of scientists from Broad Institute, Harvard University, and Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, published their findings in the June 2 issue of...

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Andrew Knoll and Chinese Team Discover Complex Life Formed Billion Years Earlier than Thought

Andrew Knoll and Chinese Team Discover Complex Life Formed Billion Years Earlier than Thought

May 17, 2016

Andrew Knoll and a Chinese team discovered centimetre-scale life forms, preserved in mudstones from the Yanshan area in north China, are dated to 1.56 billion years ago. The findings, published in Nature Communications, say the fossils show complex life on Earth formed more than 1.5 billion years ago, much earlier than was previously thought....

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Postdoc, Nathan Mueller Discovers Today's Farming Practices Can Cause Cooler Temps

February 8, 2016

Nathan Mueller, postdoctoral fellow in Michele Holbrook's lab, examined farming practices in the Midwest and found the highly fertilized and too-closely planted crops have resulted in land-use patterns intense enough to change the surrounding climate. The study published in Nature Climate Change shows the regions with the most intense farming have lower peak summer temperatures. ...

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