In the field: an interview with Roger Hanlon

Roger Hanlon is a Senior Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, USA, where he investigates body patterning and colour change in cephalopods. After his undergraduate degree in 1969 at Florida State University, USA, he joined the US Army and travelled before completing his MSc (1975) and PhD (1978) at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, USA. After a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1981, Hanlon joined the Marine Biomedical Institute, University of Texas Medical Branch, where he became a full Professor, before joining the Marine Biological Laboratory in 1995. Hanlon talks about the seminal experience in his early 20s that inspired his career and the methods and equipment he uses to study cephalopod camouflage and communication across the globe.

Draft Genome Sequence of the Free-Living, Iridescent Bacterium Tenacibaculum mesophilum Strain ECR

ABSTRACT Here, we report the genome sequence of Tenacibaculum mesophilum strain ECR, which was isolated from the river/ocean interface at Trunk River in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The isolation and sequencing were performed as part of the 2016 and 2018 Microbial Diversity courses at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Draft Genome Sequence of the Iridescent Marine Bacterium Tenacibaculum discolor Strain IMLK18

We report here the draft genome sequence of a strain of Tenacibaculum discolor (Bacteroidetes) that was isolated from the river-ocean interface at Trunk River in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The isolation and genomic sequencing were performed during the 2016 and 2018 Microbial Diversity summer programs at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Chemical sediment variables from the Faroe area: Organic content, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Zinc, and Copper / Evnafrøðiligar bleytbotnsdátur á føroyskum havøki: lívrunnið tilfar, nitrogen, fosfor, sink og kopar

<p><strong>Ú</strong><strong>r</strong><strong>t</strong><strong>ak</strong>: Havlívfrøðiliga royndarstøðin hevur síðan 1998 gjørt regluligar kanningar av botnsigi í føroyskum firðum. Kanningarnar fevndu um fylgjandi evnafrøðiligu brigdlar: nøgd av lívrunnum tilfari (gløðitap), sinki, kopari og heildarnøgd av køvievni og fosfori. Greinin viðger broytni av hesum og fevnir um 229 staksýni.</p><p>Í hesi grein eru eisini savnað úrslit, sum onnur hava almannakunngjørt um somu evnafrøðiligu broytlar.</p><p>Úrslitini eru bólkað eftir dýpi og eftir hvørjum slagi av botnsigi, ið tað snýr seg um. Eisini verður hugt eftir, hvussu virðini eru inni við land og borið verður saman við, hvussu tað er útiá.</p><p>Inni við land var nøgdin av lívrunnum tilfari, nitrogeni, fosfori, sinki og kopari í botnsiginum ávikavist: 0,5-13,0 %, 0,14-4,01 g/kg, 0,43-2,02 g/kg, 12-98 mg/kg og 14-120 mg/kg. Útiá var innihaldið av lívrunnum tilfari millum 1,3 og 5,6 %, meðan innihaldið av sinki og kopari vóru 13-47 mg/kg og 5-38 mg/kg.</p><p><strong>A</strong><strong>bstract</strong>: Since 1998 Kaldbak Marine Biological Laboratory (KMBL) has regularly performed seabed surveys in Faroese fjords. The analyses performed on the sediments included the chemical variables: Organic content (loss on ignition), total nitrogen, total phosphorus, zinc and copper. This paper deals with the variability of the variables in the Faroe area.</p><p>The results of 229 seabed samples are included. Inshore data are compared and related to depth intervals and according to sediment types. Sediment data from inshore waters are compared to sediment data from offshore localities.</p><p>Also included in this paper are eight reports that include data on the above mentioned chemical variables.</p><p>From inshore waters the concentration of organic matter, total nitrogen, total phosphorous, zinc and copper in the sediments was, respectively: 0.5-13.0 %, 0.14-4.01 g/kg, 0.43-2.02 g/kg, 12-98 mg/kg and 14-120 mg/kg. Organic content from offshore localities showed values from 1.3 to 5.6 % while the content of zinc and copper were 13-47 mg/kg and 5-38 mg/kg, respectively.</p>