Archive
The blog, 2007–2015
94 posts from a decade of graduate school, fieldwork, and the early Cryomics years — preserved here at their original links.
2015
2014
- Oct 18Northwest Glaciologists' Meeting
- Oct 10Two NOAA projects funded!
- Aug 27#ISME15
- Jul 29Graduate Student Assistantship at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Mar 03Next stop, Greenland!
- Feb 22The coming extinction of old sea ice
- Feb 13Woohoo! Astrobiology course approved!
- Jan 21Safe Return to Fairbanks
- Jan 17Day 5: Off the Ice
- Jan 17Day 4: In the Ice
- Jan 15Day 2: Under the Ice
- Jan 14Day 1: On the Ice
- Jan 12Barrow, Alaska
- Jan 05Bacteria! the video game (beta)
2013
- Dec 17Finals Week Ski Report
- Nov 06Polar Marine Science in the Genomics Era
- Nov 04zooplankton videos
- Oct 11How to use launchd to copy a dynamic IP address to your Dropbox folder
- Aug 06NSF spending on major infrastructure for biology
- Jul 15Amazing Microbial Dark Matter
- Jun 12The Art of Ice Coring
- May 10April [snow] showers bring May... mud.
- May 08Barrow Sea Ice Workshop: Day 1
- Apr 12Compatible Solutes paper accepted to Extremophiles!
- Apr 09First day at UAF
- Apr 09Arctic and Northern Industry News
- Feb 27UAF Sea Ice Field Course in Barrow, Alaska
- Feb 26Good News in Open Access and Green Labs
- Feb 21Arctic Sea Ice Death Spiral
- Feb 07Should I stay or should I go?
- Jan 21Compatible Solutes paper submitted to Extremophiles
- Jan 09G+C content amelioration of horizontally transferred genes
- Jan 07Graduate student assistantship at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Jan 01Student/Postdoc application spam from zsr.cc
2012
- Nov 08I feel like a Stranger in a Strange Land... the sexist world of the 1960s
- Oct 22Fighting with ARB
- Oct 15Bonjour Montreal!
- Aug 16Dakster now at reric.org
- Aug 09Welcome to Mars!
- Jul 12Notes on Proofs
- Jul 03Goldschmidt 2012 wrap-up
- Jul 01Genome Sequencing of 3 Sulfate Reducing Bacteria
- Jun 14Alaska
- Jun 14Paper Accepted!
- May 02International Polar Year 2012
- May 02Upcoming Goldschmidt Short Course in Bioinformatics
- Apr 19Astrobiology Science Conference 2012
- Mar 23Guest Lectures
- Mar 07Third Party Tracking by WordPress+Quantcast Disabled
- Mar 02IPY2012 FrostByte on 'hima' and 'ddmp'
- Feb 27Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012, Salt Lake City
- Jan 17Mapping KEGG organism codes to NCBI RefSeq Ids
2011
- Oct 27Hamilton ScienceCafé -- life in the universe
- Sep 21Evolution, Ecology, and Behaviour at McMaster
- Jun 20Abundant Dissolved Genetic Material in Arctic Sea Ice
2010
- Jul 12Pavilion Lake and the Cariboo Plateau
- Mar 25Mojave Desert Sampling
- Feb 10Quick bibliography software roundup
- Feb 06Proofing a manuscript
2009
- Dec 14GUI file diff viewers round-up (for LaTeX)
- Dec 01Molecular modeling of extremophiles?
- Nov 11How well can we predict the future of sea ice? And what do we do when the ice is gone?
- Sep 28Automated bacteria or virus counts in ImageJ
- Sep 18Almost technically a doctor
- Aug 25How many bacteria are in the ocean? And how far is it between bacteria in the ocean?
- Jul 20Enrichment of microorganisms into sea ice brine
- May 06Predicting the height of a saturated peak on an electropherogram
- Apr 30Using Bazaar version control system for my Ph.D. Thesis
- Apr 15Generic Ubuntu/Kubuntu problem resolution post
- Mar 17Cell counting helper program
- Jan 26ARB install on Kubuntu 8.10
- Jan 13Phylogeny workflow
- Jan 06Parsimony ratchets and efficient time usage
2008
- Dec 29Keeping tabs on our corvid neighbors
- Dec 29MySQL daily backups
- Dec 07"it was a musical thing..."
- Nov 05sacrifice
- Nov 05race
- Nov 05what a beautiful day
- Nov 02kubuntu 8.10 on macbook5
- Oct 10Plejalejence
- Oct 09Re: H.R. 6845
- Sep 26Airplanes and Treadmills and bloggers Oh My!
- Sep 18Open Access-- is there still a debate?
- Sep 18Reaching the Arctic sea ice annual minimum
- Sep 11How I would teach evolution
- Sep 10MSG: Miry Scientific Gabble
- Sep 10testing inline LaTeX
- Aug 19Cell concentration conversion from optical density
- Aug 15nifty linux command lines
- Aug 07the difference...
2007
- Dec 12CFL Dispatch