Educators Collection of Resources on Microbial Life Under High Pressure


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  • Looking for life in all the wrong places - research on cryptoendoliths:This article highlights the professional careers of two pioneer microbiologists, Imre Friedmann and his wife Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann. A personal interview with Friedmann gives readers a first hand account of the novel thoughts and discoveries of cryptoendolithic bacteria...(more info)

  • The Goldilocks Zone:This is an article from "Teachable Moments in the News," a newsletter that takes recent Earth and space science related news stories and places them in a context relevant to the science curriculum. This particular edition describes the Goldilocks Zone, a range of environmental conditions that can support life...(more info)

  • Extremophilic Bacteria and Microbial Diversity:This chapter from Raven and Johnson's Biology, a textbook for undergraduate majors, examines the many prokaryotic organisms that inhabit extreme environments; habitats in which some chemical or physical variables differ significantly from those found in habitats that support plant and animal life...(more info)

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