Climate Change Daily Vid August 14 2017: U-M biologist teaches microbe-hunting skills honed at sea

University of Michigan biologist Melissa Duhaime recently spent a month on a Russian research vessel off the coast of Antarctica, filtering bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms from thousands of gallons of seawater.

 

 A few years ago, she sailed the South Pacific leg of a global expedition that led to a tripling in the number of genetically distinct viruses—15,222 of them in 867 genus-level groups—known to live in the world's oceans.