“Deep biosphere beneath the seafloor” – AGU 2018 Fall Meeting

Deep biosphere beneath the seafloor explored at American Geophysical Union fall meeting  [News Release, National Science Foundation (NSF); December 3, 2018]

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=297365&org=ERE&from=news

Deep Sea Vent Chemistry Diagram 

(Image Source:  Wikimedia Commons – Brian 0918; February 12, 2007)

 

Selected Research Articles:

Geochemical characteristic, speciation and size-fractionization of iron (Fe) in two marine shallow-water hydrothermal systems, Dominica, Lesser Antilles (KLEINT et al., 2017)

https://www.geochemie.uni-bremen.de/pdf/pichler/2017%20CHEMGEO%20Kleint.pdf

Bacterial Diversity and Biogeochemistry of Two Marine Shallow-water Hydrothermal Systems off Dominica (Lesser Antilles) [RISTOVA et al., 2017]

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02400/full

Modes of carbon fixation in an arsenic and CO₂-rich shallow hydrothermal system  (CALLAC et al., 2017)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-13910-2

Deep-sea and shallow-water hydrothermal vent communities:  Two different phenomena?  (TARASOV et al., 2005)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrey_Gebruk/publication/223636671_Deep-sea_and_shallow-water_hydrothermal_vent_communities_Two_different_phenomena/links/59f89d37458515547c269cf3/Deep-sea-and-shallow-water-hydrothermal-vent-communities-Two-different-phenomena.pdf

Website:

Introduction to Chemoautotrophic Microbes at or near Hydrothermal Vents (TEBO and DAVIS, NOAA Ocean Explorer)

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/12fire/background/microbio/microbio.html