Welcome to the Dark Energy Biosphere Institute (DEBI) Research Coordination Network (RCN), a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Research and Coordination Network that exists to help coordinate and support deep biosphere research, and to aid in the transfer of information regarding the deep biosphere's role in the global Earth system. The DEBI-RCN is co-directed by Katrina Edwards and Jan Amend, University of Southern California.
 


NEW DATE! JUNE 7-9, 2012
Ocean Crust Processes and Consequences for Life
MARUM, University of Bremen

The DEBI RCN holds annual, theme-based meetings to enable scientists and students to exchange ideas in deep biosphere studies, to learn about practical developments and study opportunities in the field, and to coordinate research and education activities. Each meeting is part scientific conference and part training workshop, both parts focused on a specific theme within deep biosphere research.

Our next Research Coordination Network meeting will focus on processes in the ocean crust, from formation to subduction, and consequences for ocean-crust exchange budgets and subseafloor life. This meeting will provide a forum for presenting and discussing the most recent results in ocean crust processes and identifying the most pressing challenges that lie ahead. Specific focus will be on (1) crustal heterogeneity and fluid flow, (2) ocean-crust interactions, and (3) role of microbes in rock alteration. The University of Bremen will be hosting the meeting, and organizers are Heiner Villinger, Ulla Röhl, and Wolfgang Bach. Applications are now closed. [More]
 

 

Worldwide distribution of DEBI RCN participants
 
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2009 meeting hands on demo photo by UHH-CC
 
Annual Meetings

2009 School of Rock photo by Ocean Leadership
 
Opportunities

What's New

C-DEBI Newsletter
May 15, 2012 Issue

BioScience Feature
Life in the Deep Biosphere

National Geographic NewsWatch
Quantum Correlations: Down There: Life Under the Sediments Under the Sea

Nature News
James Cameron Returns from the Deep

ScienceNews Feature
Deep Life: Teeming Masses of Organisms Thrive Beneath the Seafloor


Upcoming Expeditions

July 29 - August 11, 2012
Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank Hydrogeology

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Next DEBI RCN Meeting

June 7-9, 2012
Ocean Crust Processes and Consequences for Life
Bremen, Germany


General Calendar

June 10-July 12, 2012
Geobiology 2012: An International Training Course in a Rapidly Evolving Field
Colorado/California, USA

June 16-19, 2012
American Society for Microbiology (ASM) General Meeting
San Francisco, California, USA


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