“Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life” -Charles Darwin
Science Writing.
A selected list of my science writing and guest blogging is as follows:
Molecular taxonomy and explorers of the microbial jungle (2018) - Feature Article, The Marine Biologist magazine (Issue 10)
What kind of DNA lingers on ATM keypads? Your food, your skin microbes…and (maybe) parasites (2017) - microBEnet blog post
A Decade of Deep-Sea Decadence (2016)- “best of” blog post celebrating 10 years of science blogging at Deep Sea News
Deep-Sea Barnacle Genomics. Because, #DarwinDay (2016) - Deep Sea News blog post
Go Home Dinoflagellate, You’re Drunk (2015) - Deep Sea News blog post
The Weird Sizes and Exotic Shapes of Nematode Worms (2015) - Deep Sea News blog post
Diagnosing Death with Diatoms (2014) - Deep Sea News blog post
Coral Reefs, Let’s Unzip Your Genes (2014) - Deep Sea News blog post
Marine Nematodes Have a Microbiome Too (and it’s way cooler than yours) (2013) - Deep Sea News blog post
When 2 becomes 12: Cryptic Species Need Some Love Like They’ve Never Needed Love Before (2013) - Deep Sea News blog post
Dramatic Impacts on Beach Microbial Communities Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2012) - Deep Sea News blog post
Microbiology at Sea: A Tale of Ballast, Vomit, and Cockroaches (2012) - Deep Sea News blog post
Challenger Deep: What We Can Learn From a Single, Half Core of Mud (2012) - Deep Sea News blog post
Big Text Files Can Tell You How the Ocean Works (2011) - Deep Sea News blog post
A Great Day for a Little Traumatic Insemination (2011) - Deep Sea News blog post
Invisible But Not Forgotten (2010) - Deep Sea News blog post
Open Lab 201o (Book) - My online blog posts discussing seafood safety after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were selected for inclusion in this edited print anthology. Links to the original blogs posts that were compiled for this anthology are as follows:
Seafood Safety, Part 1: Sunday Spill Special (2010) - Deep Sea News blog post
Seafood Safety, Part 2a: ‘Safe’ Criteria, PAHs (2010) - Deep Sea News blog post
Seafood Safety Part 2b: NOAA Responds to my Post (2011) - Deep Sea News blog post
“Underlying the beauty of the spectacle there is meaning and significance. It is the elusiveness of that meaning that haunts us, that sends us again and again into the natural world where the key to the riddle is hidden. It sends us back to the edge of the sea, where the drama of life played its first scene on earth and perhaps even its prelude….” -Rachel Carson