Researchers from NAI's Marine Biological Laboratory Team continue their study of the deep biosphere, reporting the latest results in Nature. This new study reveals that bacterial communities dwelling on ocean-bottom rocks are more abundant and diverse than previously thought, especially relative to the overlying water column. The microbes appear to ?feed? on the oceanic crust through seawater-rock alteration reactions involving the oxidation and hydration of glassy basalt. [Source: NAI Newsletter]
Loading
Oceanic Research: June 2008
Calendar
- 27 Jul: AbGradCon 2014
- 28 Jul: NASA Advisory Council Technology, Innovation, and Engineering Committee Meeting
- 28 Jul: NASA Advisory Council Science Committee Meeting
- 28 Jul: NASA Advisory Council Human Exploration and Operations Committee Meeting
- 29 Jul: NASA Advisory Council Institutional Committee Meeting
- 29 Jul: NASA Advisory Council Aeronautics Committee Meeting
- 30 Jul: NASA Advisory Council Meeting
- 30 Jul: The X-ray View of Galaxies in Compact Groups and the Coma Cluster Infall Region
- 31 Jul: Is It Time to Search for Life on Mars?
- 2 Aug: 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- * Submit Your Event | More Events *
Recent Articles
Masthead
Tip your editors
tips@spaceref.com