Category: Omics

A researcher in a blue sunshirt and a red life vest looks over the side of a boat as he lowers a water quality instrument into the seawater below.

From sample to source: tracking pollution pathways in AOML’s Molecular and Environmental Microbiology Lab

With sterile sample bottles at the ready, scientists in the Molecular and Environmental Microbiology Lab at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) prepare to capture water samples for analysis in the lab. Invisible to the naked eye, nutrients, pollutants, and entire communities of bacteria, algae, and other microorganisms drift through these waters leaving clues […]

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SCTLD Lesion

New study shows the aftermath of a deadly coral disease on the coral reef microbiome 

A new study led by scientists at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) indicates that stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has long-lasting impacts not only on corals, but also on their bacteria. Just as humans have bacteria and other microbes essential to our […]

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Deep Orange sunset view of the Florida Straits aboard the R/V Walton Smith, 2017.

Applying omics techniques to examine microscopic life fueling Gulf region ecosystems 

Scientists at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Lab and the Northern Gulf Institute applied omics techniques to provide the first basin-scale assessment of the microbial communities at the base of marine ecosystems across the Gulf region. The new study from Dr. Luke Thompson’s group, conducted by Dr. Sean Anderson and co-authors, is the largest environmental […]

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