Tracking Permafrost Thaw
Engaging the Workforce through Tiny Earth
JGI Early Career Researchers Featured in mSystems Special Issue
Graduate Students Get Thesis Research Opportunity at the JGI
Notes on the Microbial Diversity of Puerto Nuevo’s Coastline
Year in Review: JGI’s 2018 Progress Report Available Now
The Expanding Universe of Methane Metabolisms in Archaea
Soil Aggregate as a Biogeofunctional Island
Soils are one of the most valuable resources for our nation, sustaining fiber, food and energy sectors. Soils harbor a diverse set of microbial communities that is three times higher than all other environments combined, but we have yet to develop a framework for microbial community assembly in terrestrial systems at spatial scales that are ecologically-relevant for microbes. Aggregates constitute the physical microstructure of the soil, influencing drainage, nutrient levels, and biogeochemical cycling. We propose to study this system using the soil aggregate as an unit for microbial community processes and functions. [Read More]