NOAA TODAY
NOAA’s ‘Omics Today NOAA scientists describe the oceans by studying clues at the molecular level. By Craig Collins to: “knowing who is there, and what they’re doing, and how they’re adapting to changes or to stress.” But the ocean ecosystem is vast, complex, poorly understood, and currently under considerable stress and change – and marine biology is
quickly transforming. “In the old days,” Goodwin said, “to look at biology, you caught things and you counted them. Now, you look at their genetic code using ‘omics methods.” Biological analyses of marine ecosystems at the molecular level,
Yuan Liu (left) collects water samples for eDNA analysis in the summer of 2019, assisted by Mark Dixon (middle) and Gillian Phillips (right) at one of the aquaculture cage sites in Long Island Sound.
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Weather Bureau organizes Severe Local Storms Forecasting Unit in Washington, D.C., and begins issuing tornado forecasts.
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K
elly Goodwin, a microbiologist and molecular biologist at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), has a simple description for the field of marine biology. She boils it down
