NEWSLETTER ISSUE ONE!
The inaugural issue of our DEBI
newsletter brings much news – of the C-DEBI site
review, our first RCN meeting, the RCN graduate student
education exchange program, and many upcoming events
relevant to deep biosphere research. Find
it in our archives... |
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UPCOMING EVENTS!
* Goldschmidt Conference
abstracts due, February 21, 2010
* Ocean Sciences Meeting,
February 22-26, 2010
(Portland, Oregon, USA)
Details and more in our calendar...
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Welcome to the Dark Energy Biosphere Institute (DEBI) Research
Coordination Network (RCN)! Become
a member of the DEBI RCN!
What does DEBI do?
The DEBI mission is to provide the logistical, collaborative,
and networking framework in support of deep marine biosphere research,
with coordinating links to other relevant groups such as RIDGE
2000 and continental drilling research programs. Learn
more about the deep marine biosphere...
How does DEBI do this?
DEBI accomplishes its mission through the use of web- and meeting-based
infrastructure and through promoting research exchanges. The website
provides links and information on the deep biosphere research community,
on active drilling projects, on relevant technologies for deep biosphere
research, and on opportunities for students, postdocs, and faculty.
Five years of annual meetings are planned, in which researchers
within the DEBI community meet face-to-face to discuss key areas
of research within the deep biosphere. More
about the meetings planned...
| What
is Dark Energy all about anyways?? "Dark
energy" in cosmology and in the deep biosphere both refer
to 'missing matter': cosmological dark energy may account
for ~3/4 of the total mass-energy of the universe, and biomass
carbon in the deep biosphere may account for ~1/3 of the total
biomass on Earth! Moreover, the deep biosphere on Earth exists
entirely in the dark, fueled by processes one or more steps
removed from the photosynthetic surface world. The deep biosphere
is not independent of photosynthesis, but rather is fundamentally
linked to major processes that are dependent on, and have
consequence for, the global Earth system. More
about the deep biosphere... |
From N Spencer in Mascarelli,
2009 Nature News Feature |
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