The Antarctic marine environment is a promising region for the discovery of extraordinary microbial taxa and the exploration of their applications. This study aimed to investigate the phylogenetic diversity of culturable actinomycetes from deep sea bottom sediment of the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, and their potential to produce novel metabolites. A total of 24 actinomycete strains were isolated and assigned to the following gen...

This study introduces a spatial encoder network designed to estimate sand size distribution from optical images of sediments. The model achieves sufficient network capacity by stacking two-dimensional convolution-based encoder blocks to learn the spatial features that relate sediment images to grain size distribution. Additionally, to improve robustness and reliability, data augmentation techniques, including horizontal and ve...