GSO researchers find that microbes living in ancient sediment below the seafloor are sustained primarily by chemicals created by the natural irradiation of water molecules, with implications for the search for life on other worlds.
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URI PhD students discover single cell organisms in an unlikely place.
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An international research team that included three scientists GSO has discovered single-celled microorganisms in a location where they didn’t expect to find them.
Continue reading "Researchers discover life in deep ocean sediments at or above water’s boiling point"Oceanographers from the University of Rhode Island will once again present their research and posters during an international Earth science meeting this month. Faculty, staff and students at the Graduate School of Oceanography are among the thousands of scientists attending the 50th annual gathering of the American Geophysical Union, or AGU, Dec. 11 through 15 […]
Continue reading "GSO scientists to present research at national meeting, Dec. 11-15"(12 September 2016 – 22 November 2016) Justine Sauvage, a graduate student at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, is part of the science party seeking the temperature limit of life on IODP Expedition 370. She and other scientists will be blogging over the course of the research mission. DCO T-Limit Blog.
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