Capital Hill Ocean Week panel discussion

Cornell Atkinson Director David Lodge joined colleagues Kai Lee, @susie_theroux, Chris Meyer of @NMNH, and @Raphidophyte at Capitol Hill Ocean Week #CHOW2023 earlier today to discuss the potential of eDNA for environmental monitoring & decision making pic.twitter.com/IovChJIgM6
— Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability (@AtkinsonCenter) June 8, 2023

Molecular approach to algal bioassessment in SWAMP newsletter

Read more about our efforts to develop a DNA sequence-based approach for algal bioassessment here.

South Bay project featured in Discover Magazine

HOW WETLAND MICROBES IMPACT GLOBAL CLIMATE

A California microbiologist is unearthing startling clues about how tiny wetland organisms influence greenhouse gas emissions. Read more HERE.

A visit from Congressman Mark DeSaulnier

On Friday, February 20, first-year Congressman Mark DeSaulnier, whose 11th District spans from Antioch in east Contra Costa County to Richmond in the west, visited the landmark energy and environmental genomics user facility at his District’s geographic center, the DOE Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek.

Thanks @doe_jgi for a great tour and science lesson on #genomics & #environment @ENERGY pic.twitter.com/cRyshzNTNj
— Mark DeSaulnier (@RepDeSaulnier) February 21, 2015

Learn more about why we are studying microbes in the South Bay Salt Ponds

DOE JGI Metagenome Program Head Susannah Tringe and postdoc Susie Theroux discuss the lessons to be learned from studying the microbial diversity of marshes that have been converted to other uses, and are now being restored, as well as the potential impacts on the global carbon cycle.

2015 JGI User Meeting Presentation on microbes+metagenomics in San Francisco Bay

Susanna Theroux, DOE Joint Genome Institute, at the 10th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting held March 24-26, 2015 in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Greenland field work featured on Exploratorium Ice Stories blog series