Tag Archives: climate change

BEACON Researchers at Work: Climate effects on algae… and undergrads

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate students Jakob Nalley and Danny O’Donnell, with University of Texas undergraduate Farhana Haque. Go ahead, take a deep breath, and let it out. Almost half of the oxygen … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Coping with Variable Environments

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Colin Kremer.  Imagine for a moment that you are a plant, animal, or microbe. Chances are good that the environment you live in (desert, forest, grassland, lake, even … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Effects of rising temperatures on marine phytoplankton

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Mridul Thomas. Every day, a staggering quantity of carbon is drawn out of the atmosphere into the oceans as a result of the silent actions of massive numbers … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolutionary Metagenomics: selection pressures on bacterial communities on soil

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU postdoc Bjørn Østman. We would like to know how soil bacteria evolve. They are important for humans and other living things, as they are involved in chemical processes that are … Continue reading →

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