I’ve made a short video teaser for my upcoming talk at the IPY2012 conference in Montreal. Check it out! [It took me all day to find the right combination of tools to produce this simple video in Linux! First I tried making it as a presentation in OpenOffice Impress, exporting that as a swf video […]

After 7 years in Oceanography grad school, I just got back from my first ever Ocean Sciences meeting, which was great. I saw a lot of old oceangrapher friends and talked to a lot of people about science! In a perhaps naive attempt to limit my carbon footprint, I took ground transportation back to Hamilton, […]

I’m starting up a ScienceCafé in Hamilton, and it’s always hard to get other people to volunteer to go first, so I did it myself! There were about a dozen participants for the first session, which was held at the Mulberry Street Coffeehouse on James Street North. Future meetings will be there on the last […]

I was delighted to give the first Evolution, Ecology, and Behaviour (EEB) seminar of the term today in the Biology Department at McMaster. I talked mostly about sea ice microorganisms and finished with a few slides for a paper that I have been working on with Paul Higgs on modeling bacterial pangenomes. The slides are […]

Two new papers from the Circumpolar Flaw Lead (CFL) Systems Study will be published soon in a special issue of Polar Biology. They can be accessed below. Collins RE, Deming JW (2011) Abundant dissolved genetic material in Arctic sea ice Part I: Extracellular DNA. Polar Biology. [doi: view online] [Article PDF] [Supplementary Materials PDF] [References […]