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Author: Michael Graw

I'm a 5th year PhD student at Oregon State University researching the microbial ecology of marine sediments - why do we find microbes where they are in the seafloor, and what are they doing there? I spend my non-science time in the Cascade Mountains with my camera (@wanderingsolephotography) or racing triathlons.
Melting ice, shifting microbes
Sea Ice

Melting ice, shifting microbes

Polar bears have been the poster child for sea ice melting in the Arctic. But what does sea ice loss…
December 14, 2017December 14, 2017 Michael Graw
A blanket of oil: the role of bacteria in cleaning up after Deepwater Horizon
Microbiology

A blanket of oil: the role of bacteria in cleaning up after Deepwater Horizon

Nearly one million barrels of oil landed on the seafloor after the Deepwater Horizon spill - a feast if bacteria…
November 21, 2017 Michael Graw
Popping bubbles: Measuring nitrogen fixation in the ocean
Methodology

Popping bubbles: Measuring nitrogen fixation in the ocean

Scientists have been measuring nitrogen fixation in the ocean wrong - but a new method offers a simple fix.
October 24, 2017 Michael Graw
The answer to starvation? Diversity
Microbiology

The answer to starvation? Diversity

Photosynthetic microorganisms can't go it alone, so they succeed by playing host to a diverse array of microbial partners
August 30, 2017August 28, 2017 Michael Graw
The ocean’s tiny, mysterious majority
Microbiology

The ocean’s tiny, mysterious majority

The earth has more viruses than the universe has stars - but we know far less about our tiny majority…
July 26, 2017 Michael Graw
Microbiology

Toxic living: finding the right home for sulfur-oxidizing bacteria

Hydrothermal vents are hot, dark, and toxic environments. But to sulfur oxidizing bacteria, they're home.
June 29, 2017June 28, 2017 Michael Graw
Ocean Acidification

Stressed-out microbes in an acidifying ocean

The ocean is acidifying in response to carbon dioxide emissions, but we are just beginning to learn how this effects…
May 26, 2017May 26, 2017 Michael Graw
Biogeochemistry Climate Change

Suffocating crabs and a one-way street for carbon

Seafloor life is in danger of running out of oxygen as the ocean warms, but this may actually help to…
April 26, 2017April 25, 2017 Michael Graw
Biogeochemistry Microbiology

Methane on the dinner menu

Bacteria in coastal waters can eat methane, a greenhouse gas - but just how much and how fast can they…
March 29, 2017 Michael Graw

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