Early Career Scientist’s post: “Going Viral”
“Viruses are messing around with the genomes of their hosts in just about any environment on Earth, but I’m interested in deep-sea hydrothermal vents because I think viruses have been playing this game for billions of years….. […] …. If we can understand how evolution operates in these places, we might better understand how microbes and viruses evolved together on the early Earth—and whether life might exist elsewhere in the universe.”
Also read the UNOLS_ECS blog series from the expedition AT 42-06!
“Why AM I Here?” by Dalton Hardisty, Michigan State University
“Off to Work” by Ross Parnell-Turner, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
“Crab Boil” by Carolyn Tepolt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution