New preprint out on microbial urea use in the deep sea. Bottom line: urea is important! Wonderful work by several members of my group over years, including Nestor Arandia-Gorostidi Alex Jaffe Chloé Baumas

📷Check out our July 2024 eNews!📷 ⭐️Traits of #GreatLakes Cyanobacteria; Great Lakes Storm Surge Flooding; 2024 Summer Fellows; Alumni Spotlight – Holly Kelchner: mailchi.mp/02cacf58e672/c… #ScienceForSociety #GreatLakesSci

Our new study out today characterizing a broad array of antiviral defense systems across an expanded genomic database of Asgard archaea, revealing archaea played roles origin of immunity in eukaryotes. Led by Pedro Leão and Valerie De Anda rdcu.be/dPyF4

Two Asgard papers out today! Exciting discoveries about Asgard archaea are now in Nature Communications ! A 🧵👇

#WebinarWednesday 🎙️, #ICYMI #CIGLR's Anna Boegehold teamed up w/ our University of Michigan partner Vincent Denef for a webinar hosted by Invasive Mussel Collaborative on July 24th titled: "Quagga mussel food choice at the HAB buffet." Check out the webinar recording here: invasivemusselcollaborative.net/event/quagga-m… NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

Don't miss the behind-the-paper by Luis E. Valentín-Alvarado and The Banfield Lab 👇 Archaea.bio #ASGARD

New postdoc opportunity to work with Thea Whitman and myself The Anantharaman Lab on wildfire metagenomics. Please share widely. Apply by August 31. isme-microbes.org/jobs/postdocto…

10 YEARS: Watch this Great Lakes Now update about the Toledo Water Crisis. My work with LimnoTech to monitor and mitigate the impacts are featured. I'm in the screen shot below! youtube.com/live/znWHGFHh2…

In 2024, GLERL shares its 50th anniversary with one of our most important research tools: the R/V Laurentian! At 80 feet long, the Laurentian is GLERL’s largest vessel and a fundamental component of our #GreatLakes science. Read the full story: noaaglerl.blog/2024/08/05/why…

USA Today video segment on toxic algal blooms, swimming advisories in lakes and rivers, with Dr. George Bullerjahn of BGSU Biology usatoday.com/videos/news/we…

nature.com/articles/s4156…

Anyone who is interested in joining our lab via one of these fellowships, contact me with your ideas (be specific).

EARTH is hiring a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor. Candidates with a PhD specializing in Earth and environmental sciences are encouraged to apply. Applications are due by 9/16. For questions or comments, email [email protected]. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/149747

more of this, please: conversion of concentrated animal feeding operations to environmentally friendly and profitable specialty farms nytimes.com/2024/08/14/cli…

.U-M SEAS researchers analyzed decades of data about large storm systems known as midlatitude or extratropical cyclones and found that wild weather swings around the Great Lakes during the winter months are likely to become more common in the future. myumi.ch/M61z4

Abby Hutson The Nature Conservancy in Michigan Michigan EARTH Greg Dick The Weather Channel National Weather Service BBC Weather U-M College of LSA Valparaiso University Texas Tech University LimnoTech FondriestEnv

Warmer, rainier winter storms for #GreatLakes region. Decades of large storm system-extratropical cyclone-data shows wild weather swings may be more common. “Yr-to-yr variability, the storm strength, location, frequency-is wild. It’s all over the place,” - #CIGLR's Dr. Hutson 👇

My department at the University of Michigan is conducting a broad search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Please share with prospective candidates. This unit has been a fantastic home for me... happy to answer questions.

🚨 Please SHARE! #CIGLR is #HIRING a Postdoctoral Fellow in #GreatLakes Regional Climate Modeling with WRF. The job posting closes on October 1, 2024. To learn more and apply, visit CIGLR Job Openings (ciglr.seas.umich.edu/opportunities/…) #GreatLakesSci #GreatLakesJobs #Jobs

Well, tom delmont and I wrote this short piece for YOU, and it is now online at Nature News & Views! nature.com/articles/d4158… It was a great opportunity to discuss the utility of MAGs from marine systems to support bioprospecting and to deliver one of the promises of microbiology 😇