A flurry of new research is redefining our views on where life resides on Earth. The biosphere is the zone of air, land, and water…
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Plumes, Microbes, and Hypoxia…Did, Do, or Will They Exist in the Gulf
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…
View More Plumes, Microbes, and Hypoxia…Did, Do, or Will They Exist in the GulfScientists With Data Agree…A Deepwater Oil Plume Exists in the Gulf
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…
View More Scientists With Data Agree…A Deepwater Oil Plume Exists in the GulfInteractions in the Dark Ocean
The deep sea, a vast, dark realm featuring disticntive organisms and serving as a massive reservoir of carbon, is the largest and leas explored ecosystem on Earth.…
View More Interactions in the Dark OceanGreat Abyssal Diversity Among the Microscopic
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…
View More Great Abyssal Diversity Among the MicroscopicThriving In Extreme Conditions
…takes more than a Red Bull. You got to have the right metabolic pathways. NSF highlights the work of Samantha Joye of the University of…
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