Measuring Marine Microbes

Do populations of microbes, such as bacteria, have a kind of "social" structure? How quickly does an individual microbe grow? What happens if you put a microbe on the world's smallest diving board, and why would you do that in the first place? Measuring Marine Microbes takes you behind the scenes, as scientists in the labs of Professors Martin Polz and Scott Manalis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) answer those and other questions. Produced by undergraduates in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, in collaboration with the MIT Terrascope program, this light-hearted, funny, informative podcast takes you into the lab, out to the lunch trucks where scientists have some of their best ideas, and beyond. Produced with funding from the National Science Foundation.