Introducing Team Microbe!
Today was a busy day with both some field work collecting and filtering samples and lab work extracting DNA from collected samples. I plan to write more about those specific processes in an upcoming post.
So for now, here's the PI, or principal investigator Byron to tell you a little bit more about himself and his involvement in this project.
Species Journal
Today we took a helicopter and went out a lake called NE-14. It also has a thermokarst like Wolverine Lake, but it is older. It was interesting to see some of the differences in the terrain and the succession and changes in vegetation.
While I didn't see any new species today in their living form, we did find some remnants of an organism that does live around this area, caribou!
A Reminder
My PolarConnect event is coming up this Friday at 11:30 AKT [12:30pm PDT, 1:30pm MDT, 2:30pm CDT, 3:30pm EDT]. I would love to have all of you join in to learn more about my experience in the arctic and Byron's research. It is free and easy, for instructions click here!
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