June 2023 - Protecting Our Oceans
This special issue features content from across The Microbiologist on the theme of protecting our oceans, ocean sustainability and marine microbiology. The issue will be updated across the month of June 2023 and include news, features, careers and opinion. If you would like to feature your work in this issue, contact the editorial team.
Protecting our oceans news
Warming climate could turn plankton microbes into carbon emitters
New research finds that a warming climate could flip globally abundant microbial communities from carbon sinks to carbon emitters, potentially triggering climate change tipping points.
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Protecting our oceans features
Lessons learned from microbes that stick to plastic
Lower density plastics tend to float or remain in the upper 30 meters of aquatic environments, interacting with biota in ways still being deciphered.
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Protecting our oceans in Careers
Creating the right climate for a marine biotechnologist
Over the past decade, Mike Allen has been trying to help solve the three challenges he sees as the major threats to humanity and our way of life: energy, water and food security.
The special issue for July 2023 will be entitled Farm to Fork Microbiology. If you would like to feature your work in the next issue, please contact the editorial team. Access to previous special issues can be found in the footer navigation under ’Issues’.