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Microbial Life in Extreme Environments
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Thermal Biology Institute part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The goals of the Thermal Biology Institute's webpage are to present cutting-edge research focused on the biology of geothermal systems, to promote collaboration among researchers and resource ...
Eukaryotes in Extreme Environments part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article is a compilation of information about free-living eukaryotes in extreme environments. Written in summary form, it includes anaerobes, thermophiles, psychrophiles, acidophiles, ...
The Mono Basin Ecosystem: Effect of a Changing Lake Level part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Exotic-looking Microbes Turn Up In Ancient Antarctic Ice part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article describes newly discovered microbial organisms in the Antarctic ice sheet. The microbes were discovered in deep ice core samples from the Vostok Station about 1,000 km from the South ...
Life in Extreme Environments (LExEn) Workshop Report part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a draft report of the Life in Extreme Environments (LExEn) workshop held at the National Science Foundation. It proposes questions such as: What conditions determine the limits of life? What ...
Ice Cube of Exotic Microbes part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article describes a permafrost subglacial lake discovered beneath Antarctica. The lake offers scientists a chance to test their sterile drilling techniques before exploring elsewhere in search ...
The Student Revolution that Saved Mono Lake part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This essay, written by a twelfth-grader in California, details the history of Mono Lake conservation. Beginning in 1976, it traces the events that inspired a few college students to form the Mono ...
Pictures of Mono Lake part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site briefly introduces the history and ecology of Mono Lake. It is comprised of 27 professional photographs, each offering a visual insight into the community's unusual landscape. All images ...
Breathing Arsenate: Microbes, Minerals, Mono Lake, and Maybe Even Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This abstract explains the discovery and significance of certain diverse and novel bacterial species achieving anaerobic growth using arsenate, rather than oxygen, as a respiratory electron acceptor. ...
Arsenic: Toxic to People, Vital for Some Microbes part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This on-line newspaper article introduces arsenic-breathing bacteria. The article briefly describes the history and uses of arsenic and then explains how these microbes may be responsible for arsenic ...
