Researchers from NAI’s Carnegie Institution of Washington Team have published in Science their findings of a novel archaeon who’s ability to fix nitrogen at 92 degrees Celcius has officially increased […]
Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments
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Low Abundance Acidophilic Archea Revealed
Scientists from NAI’s University of California, Berkeley Team report in Science on their use of shotgun sequencing to uncover three novel archea present in all biofilms growing in pH 0.5 […]
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Thermophiles 2007 – First call
The 9th International Thermophiles Conference will be held from 24th to 27th of September 2007 in Bergen, the “Gateway to the Fjords of Norway”. The conference will cover all aspects […]
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Arctic Met Station Update
This summer Miles Ecclestone of Trent University, returned to our camp next to Colour Lake to continue making improvements to the McGill Arctic Research Station (M.A.R.S.) as part of an […]
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NAI Explores Most Active Volcanic Region on Earth & Brings the Public Along
NAI investigators, led by Jake Maule of the CIW Team, are exploring the Kamchatka Peninsula in Eastern Russia. Kamchatka is a vast land of ‘fire and ice’, being home to […]
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Fall AGU Session: Biofilms in the environment
Fall AGU Session: Biofilms in the environment: Adaptive roles, microbe-mineral interfaces, and contributions to global biogeochemical cycles In most natural environments microbial communities are associated with surfaces in structures known […]
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AMASE 2006 Updates
Kirsten Fristad’s NASA Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition Field Reports “I stand at the window looking out over Sassenfjord. Our trip has come to an end. The sky is cool […]
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Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition Under Way
Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition (AMASE) 2006, NASA “In August, members of the Sample Analysis of Mars (SAM) Lab team will spend two and a half weeks in Svalbard. The […]
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Green Ice, Ravens, Ice Caves And The Movie “Contact”
Towards the end of our summer expedition while flying back to Eureka from our camp on Axel Heiberg, I spotted a lake with what appeared to be green ice on […]
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Europa on Earth: Expedition to the Sulfur Springs of Ellesmere Island
“A four-person team departs today for an expedition to the top of the world, where mineral-rich waters seep from the top of a 200-meter-thick glacier. Sulfur-bearing compounds precipitate from the […]