Map of the Altantis Massif showing the locations of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expeditions 304 and 305, Hole 1309D (yellow circle) and the Lost City Hydrothermal Field (green circle). From Mason et al. 2010 A flurry of new research is redefining our views on where life resides on Earth. The biosphere is the zone . . . → Read More: Finding Life Where the Sun Don’t Shine
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By Dr. M, on  November 21st, 2010  Leave a comment  Environmental Sciences, Evolution, Geology, Microbes, New Research, New Species, Uncategorized  baslt, biosphere, crust, DNA, Geology, massif, microbial, North Atlantic, ridge By Dr. M, on August 24th, 2010 5 comments Industry & Government, Microbes, Oil Spills BP, conflict of interest, Gulf of Mexico, microbial, Oil Spill, plume The internets are a buzz with a new paper published in Science. You may recall I covered the new paper by Camilli et al. in Science demonstrating that a deep-water oil plume did exist, conclusively, in Gulf of Mexico at the time the researchers sampled, approximately May-June. One of the interesting findings was that at . . . → Read More: Plumes, Microbes, and Hypoxia…Did, Do, or Will They Exist in the Gulf
By Dr. M, on August 19th, 2010 5 comments Oil Spills Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Hydrocarbons, Methane Seep, microbial, oil plume, Oil Spill, oxygen, petroleum, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute BP want’s to deny the presence of a deepwater oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico. The very oil plume both predicted by models published in 2003. The very oil plume that the massive amounts of dispersant injected at depth created to prevent oil from washing ashore. Even the government wants to deny the existence . . . → Read More: Scientists With Data Agree…A Deepwater Oil Plume Exists in the Gulf
By Dr. M, on July 5th, 2010 One comment Biology, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Microbes, New Research, Organisms, Plankton biogeochemistry, biological pump, carbon budget, carbon cycling, climate, deep sea, microbial, pelagic Fig 1 from Steinberg and Hansell (2010) DSRIIThe recent of issue of Deep-Sea Research II is out and focuses on the ecological and biogeochemical interactions in the dark ocean. Perhaps the best summary of why this is an important contribution is from the editor of the volume themselves… The deep sea, a vast, dark realm . . . → Read More: Interactions in the Dark Ocean
By Dr. M, on January 19th, 2010 One comment Ecology, Microbes, New Research, Organisms abyss, donuts, Microbe, microbial, operational taxonomic unit, Organisms, rare biosphere An area the size of a coffee table on the deep-sea floor would yield hundreds of species. A few species would dominate with numbers in the 10-100′s. Yet most would be rare represented by a single lone individual. These latter species are the “rare biosphere” and one of the most conspicuous phenomena of the deep . . . → Read More: Great Abyssal Diversity Among the Microscopic
By Dr. M, on April 13th, 2009 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biology, Environmental Sciences, Geology, Microbes, New Research, Organisms, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls anoxic, brine, Gulf of Mexico, Metabolism, methane, Microbe, microbial, National Science Foundation, noxious, oil and gas, origins of life, primordial, seep, Texas A&M University, University of Georgia A mineral chimney and microbe mats on the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico. Mineral chimneys are associated with sea vents that release oil and gas. The microbe mats are lying on sediments next to the mineral chimney. Credit: Ian MacDonald, Texas A&M University …takes more than a Red Bull. You got to have . . . → Read More: Thriving In Extreme Conditions
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