Center Documents

• C-DEBI Proposal, NSF Science and Technology Center, 2009
  Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI): A center for resolving the extent, fuction, dynamics and implications of the subseafloor biosphere [PDF]
   
• Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Drilling Proposal: Juan de Fuca Ridge, 2003
  Hydrogeologic architecture of basaltic oceanic crust: Compartmentalization, anisotropy, microbiology, and crustal-scale properties on the Eastern flank of Juan de Fuca Ridge [PDF]
   
• Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Drilling Proposal: North Pond, 2005
  Microbiology of a sediment pond and the underlying young, cold, hydrologically active ridge flank [PDF]
   
• Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Drilling Proposal: South Pacific Gyre, 2007
  Life beneath the seafloor of the South Pacific Gyre [PDF]
   
• C-DEBI Annual Report, 2010 [PDF with Appendix, 5.4 MB] [PDF without Appendix, 0.4 MB]
  General Information • Research • Education • Knowledge Transfer • External Partnerships • Diversity • Management • Center-wide Outputs and Issues • Indirect/Other Impacts • Appendix
   
• C-DEBI Annual Report, 2011 [PDF with Appendix, 8.7 MB] [PDF without Appendix, 0.6 MB]
  General Information • Research • Education • Knowledge Transfer • External Partnerships • Diversity • Management • Center-wide Outputs and Issues • Indirect/Other Impacts • Appendix
   
• C-DEBI Annual Report, 2012 [PDF without Appendix, 1.8 MB] [Appendix zipped PDFs, 38.2 MB]
  General Information • Research • Education • Knowledge Transfer • External Partnerships • Diversity • Management • Center-wide Outputs and Issues • Indirect/Other Impacts • Appendix
   
  

• C-DEBI Operations Manual, 2012 [PDF]
  C-DEBI Personnel • Science and Technical Operations • Education • Mentoring of Graduate Students and Postdoctorals • Outreach • Grants and Fellowships • Meetings • Ethics
   
• C-DEBI Strategic Implementation Plan, 2010 September [PDF]
  Mission • Education, Human Resources, and Diversity Goal • Leadership and Management Goal • Knowledge Transfer Goal • Integrative Research Goal • Ethics Goal • APPENDIX - Community Categories of Engagement - Expedition Reporting - Reporting Requirements - Observatory Instrumentation and Experimentation Standard Operating Procedures (O-SOPs) - Instrumentation Advisory Council (IAC) - Major Core Field Project Standard Operating Procedures (M-SOPs)
   
• C-DEBI Data Management Philosophy and Policy, 2012 [PDF]
  The C-DEBI Data Management Policy strives to strike an equitable balance between open access and protection of intellectual capital.
   
• C-DEBI Grants Programs FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), 2012 [PDF]
  Source of Funding • Review Panels • Review Criteria • Likelyhood of Funding • Funded Grant Themes
   
• C-DEBI Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Mentoring Plan, 2013 [PDF]
  Primary Advisor and Oversight Committee Roles and Responsibilities • Networking Opportunities
   
• C-DEBI Reporting Requirements, 2012 [PDF]
  C-DEBI Affiliation • Reporting Information • Conditions for Reporting
   
• C-DEBI Major Programs Nomination and Selection Procedure, 2012 [PDF]
  Classification scheme and procedure for proposing new Major Programs
  

• Fisher, A. T., C. G. Wheat, K. Becker, J. Cowen, B. Orcutt, S. Hulme, K. Inderbitzen, A. Turner, T. Pettigrew, E. E. Davis, H. Jannasch, K. Grigar, R. Adudell, R. Meldrum, R. Macdonald, and K. Edwards. 2011. Design, deployment, and status of borehole observatory systems used for single-hole and cross-hole experiments, IODP Expedition 327, eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. In A. T. Fisher, T. Tsuji and K. Petronotis, Proceedings of the IODP Expedition 327, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. C-DEBI Contribution 101. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Fisher, A. T., J. Cowen, C. G. Wheat, and J. F. Clark. 2011. Preparation and injection of fluid tracers during IODP Expedition 327, eastern flank of Juan de Fuca Ridge. In A. T. Fisher, T. Tsuji and K. Petronotis, Proceedings of the IODP Expedition 327, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. C-DEBI Contribution 102. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Wheat, C. G., H. W. Jannasch, M. Kastner, S. Hulme, J. Cowen, K. J. Edwards, B. N. Orcutt, and B. Glazer. 2011. Fluid sampling from oceanic borehole observatories: Design and methods for CORK activities (1990-2010). In A. T. Fisher, T. Tsuji and K. Petronotis, Proceedings of the IODP Expedition 327, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. C-DEBI Contribution 103. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Humphris, S. E., deMenocal, P. B., Edwards, K. J., Fisher, A. T., and Saffer, D. 2011. Eos Forum: The need for scientific ocean drilling. Eos 92, 84. C-DEBI Contribution 104. [PDF]
   
• Orcutt, B. N., J. B. Sylvan, N. J. Knab, and K. J. Edwards. 2011. Microbial ecology of the dark ocean above, at, and below the seafloor. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 75, 361-422. C-DEBI Contribution 105. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Bennett, S. A., R. L. Hansman, A. L. Sessions, K. Nakamura, and K. J. Edwards. 2011. Tracing iron-fueled microbial carbon production within the hydrothermal plume at the Loihi seamount. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 19. C-DEBI Contribution 106. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Orcutt, B. N., D. Bowman, K. Inderbitzen, A. Haddad, A. T. Fisher, and L. Peart. 2011. The 'Adopt-A-Microbe' Project: Web-based interactive microbiology education connected with scientific ocean drilling. Current: The Journal of Marine Education 27, 3. C-DEBI Contribution 107. [PDF, permission granted by the publisher, National Marine Educators Association (NMEA)]
   
• Edwards, K. J., C. G. Wheat, and J. B. Sylvan. 2011. Under the sea: Microbial life in volcanic oceanic crust. Nature Reviews Microbiology 9. C-DEBI Contribution 108. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Orsi, W., J. F. Biddle, and V. Edgcomb. 2013. Deep sequencing of subseafloor eukaryotic rRNA reveals active Fungi across marine subsurface provinces. PLoS One 8(2). C-DEBI Contribution 109. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Singer, E., D. E. Emerson, E. A. Webb, R. A. Barco, J. G. Keunen, W. C. Nelson, C. S. Chan, L. R. Comolli, S. Ferriera, J. Johnson, J. F. Heidelberg, and K. J. Edwards. 2011. Mariprofundus ferrooxydans PV-1: The first genome of a marine Fe(II) oxidizing Zetaproteobacterium. PLoS ONE 6(9) e25386. C-DEBI Contribution 110. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Fisher, A. T., T. Tsuji, K. Petronotis, C. G. Wheat, K. Becker, J. F. Clark, J. Cowen, K. Edwards, H. Jannasch, IODP Expedition 327 and Atlantis Expedition AT18-07 Shipboard Parties. 2012. IODP Expedition 327 and Atlantis Expedition AT18-07: Observatories and experiments on the eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Scientific Drilling 13, 4-11. C-DEBI Contribution 111. [Publisher's PDF]
   
• Biddle, J. F., J. B. Sylvan, W. J. Brazelton, B. J. Tully, K. J. Edwards, C. L. Moyer, J. F. Heidelberg and W. C. Nelson. 2012. Prospects for the study of evolution in the deep biosphere. Frontiers in Microbiology 2 (285). C-DEBI Contribution 112. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Cowen, J. P., D. Copson, J. Jolly, C.-C. Hsieh, H.-T. Lin, B. T. Glazer, and C. G. Wheat. 2012. Advanced instrument system for real-time and time-series microbial geochemical sampling of the deep (basaltic) crustal biosphere. Deep Sea Research I 61, 43-56. C-DEBI Contribution 113. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Smith, A., R. Popa, M. Fisk, M. Nielsen, C. G. Wheat, H. W. Jannasch, A. T. Fisher, K. Becker, S. M. Sievert, and G. Flores. 2011. In situ enrichment of ocean crust microbes on igneous minerals and glasses using an osmotic flow-through device. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 12. C-DEBI Contribution 114. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Edwards, K. J., K. Becker, and F. Colwell. 2012. The deep, dark energy biosphere: Intraterrestrial life on Earth. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 40, 551-568. C-DEBI Contribution 115. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Sylvan, J. B., B. M. Toner, and K. J. Edwards. 2012. Life and death of deep-sea vents: Bacterial diversity and ecosystem succession on inactive hydrothermal sulfides. mBio 3(1), e00279-11. C-DEBI Contribution 116. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Edwards, K. J. 2011. Carbon cycle at depth. Nature Geosciences 4, 9-11. C-DEBI Contribution 117. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Sylvan, J. B., B. C. Pyenson, O. Rouxel, C. R. German, and K. J. Edwards. 2012. Time series analysis of two hydrothermal plumes at 9°50'N East Pacific Rise reveals distinct, heterogeneous bacterial populations. Geobiology 10(2), 178-192. C-DEBI Contribution 118. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Charpentier, D., M. D. Buatier, E. Jacquot, A. Gaudin, and C. G. Wheat. 2011. Conditions and mechanism for the formation of iron-rich Montmorillonite in deep sea sediments (Costa Rica Margin): Coupling high resolution mineralogical characterization and geochemical modeling. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 1397-1410. C-DEBI Contribution 119. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Mottl, M. J., J. S. Seewald, C. G. Wheat, M. K. Tivey, P. J. Michael, G. Proskurowski, T. M. McCollom, E. Reeves, J. Sharkey, C.-F. You, L.-H. Chan, and T. Pichler. 2011. Chemistry of hot springs along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 1013-1038. C-DEBI Contribution 120. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Singer, E., E. A. Webb, W. C. Nelson, J. F. Heidelberg, N. Ivanova, A. Pati, and K. J. Edwards. 2011. Genomic potential of Marinobacter aquaeolei, a biogeochemical "opportunitroph". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77 (8), 2763-2771. C-DEBI Contribution 121. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Wehrmann, L. M., N. Risgaard-Petersen, H. N. Schrum, E. A. Walsh, Y. Huh, M. Ikehara, C. Pierre, S. D'Hondt, T. G. Ferdelman, A. C. Ravelo, K. Takahashi, C. Alvarez Zarikian, and the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 323 Scientific Party. 2011. Coupled organic and inorganic carbon cycling in the deep subseafloor sediment of the northeastern Bering Sea Slope (IODP Exp. 323). Chemical Geology 284, 251-261. C-DEBI Contribution 122. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Expedition 329 Scientists. 2011. South Pacific Gyre: Subseafloor life and habitability in the South Pacific Gyre. IODP Preliminary Report 329. C-DEBI Contribution 123. [Publisher's Link]
   
• D'Hondt, S., F. Inagaki, C. A. Alvarez Zarikian, and the Expedition 329 Scientists. 2011. Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program 329. Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). C-DEBI Contribution 124. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Lin, H.-T., J. P. Cowen, E. J. Olson, J. P. Amend, and M. D. Lilley. 2012. Inorganic chemistry, gas compositions and dissolved organic carbon in fluids from sedimented young basaltic crust on the Juan de Fuca Ridge flanks. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 85, 213-227. C-DEBI Contribution 125. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Mills, H. J., B. K. Reese, and C. St. Peter. 2012. Characterization of microbial population shifts during sample storage. Frontiers in Microbiology 3 (49). C-DEBI Contribution 126. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Edwards, K. J., A. T. Fisher, and C. G. Wheat. 2012. The deep subsurface biosphere in igneous ocean crust: Frontier habitats for microbiological exploration. Frontiers in Microbiology 3 (8). C-DEBI Contribution 127. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Mills, H. J., B. K. Reese, A. K. Shepard, N. Riedinger, S. E. Dowd, Y. Morono, and F. Inagaki. 2012. Characterization of metabolically active bacterial populations in subseafloor Nankai Trough sediments above, within and below the sulfate-methane transition zone. Frontiers in Microbiology 3 (113). C-DEBI Contribution 128. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Lomstein, B. Aa., A. T. Langerhuus, S. D'Hondt, B. B. Jørgensen, and A. J. Spivack. 2012. Endospore abundance, microbial growth and necromass turnover in deep sub-seafloor sediment. Nature 484, 101-104. C-DEBI Contribution 129. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Røy, H., J. Kallmeyer, R. R. Adhikari, R. Pockalny, B. B. Jørgensen, and S. D'Hondt. 2012. Aerobic microbial respiration in 86-million-year-old deep-sea red clay. Science 336 (6083), 922-925. C-DEBI Contribution 130. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Edwards, K. J., W. Bach, C. G. Wheat, B. N. Orcutt, S. Hulme, K. S. Becker, A. Haddad, T. Pettigrew, W. Rhinehart, K. Grigar, A. Klaus, A.  2012.  Design and deployment of borehole observatories and experiments during IODP Exp. 336, mid-Atlantic ridge flank at North Pond. In Edwards, K.J., Bach, W., Klaus, A., and the Expedition 336 Scientists, Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. C-DEBI Contribution 131. [Publisher's Link]
  

• NEW! Wheat, C. G., K. J. Edwards, T. Pettigrew, H. W. Jannasch, K. Becker, E. Davis, H. Villinger, and W. Bach. 2012. CORK-Lite: bringing legacy boreholes back to life. Scientific Drilling 14, 39-43. C-DEBI Contribution 132. [Publisher's PDF]
   
• NEW! Orcutt, B. N., R. A. Barco, S. B. Joye, and K. J. Edwards. 2012. Summary of carbon, nitrogen, and iron leaching characteristics and fluorescence properties of materials considered for subseafloor observatory assembly. IODP Exp 336 Scientific Proceedings. C-DEBI Contribution 133. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Jungbluth, S. P., J. Grote, H.-T. Lin, J. P. Cowen, and M. S. Rappé. 2013. Microbial diversity within basement fluids of the sediment-buried Juan de Fuca Ridge flank. ISME Journal 7, 161-172. C-DEBI Contribution 134. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Wang, F. P., S. L. Lu, B. N. Orcutt, W. Xie, Y. Chen, X. Xiao, and K. J. Edwards. 2012. Discovering the roles of subsurface microorganisms: progress and future of deep biosphere investigation. Chinese Science Bulletin. C-DEBI Contribution 135. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Kallmeyer, J., R. Pockalnyc, R. R. Adhikaria, D. C. Smith and S. D'Hondt. 2012. Global distribution of microbial abundance and biomass in subseafloor sediment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (40), 16213-16216. C-DEBI Contribution 136. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Haddad, A. G., M. K. Turner, C. Joseph, B. N. Orcutt, L. Samuelson, and the Shipboard Parties of IODP Expedition 336 and MSM20/5. 2012. The Classroom Connection program: bringing deep sea research to students of all learning levels. Current: The Journal of Marine Education 28 (2), 51-56. C-DEBI Contribution 138. [No Online Information from Publisher]
   
• NEW! Lever, M. A., O. Rouxel, J. C. Alt, N. Shimizu, S. Ono, R. M. Coggon, W. C. Shanks, L. Lapham, M. Elvert, X. Prieto-Mollar, K.-U. Hinrichs, F. Inagaki, and A. Teske. 2013. Evidence for microbial carbon and sulfur cycling in deeply buried ridge flank basalt. Science 339 (6125), 1305-1308. C-DEBI Contribution 139. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Baker, E. T., W. W. Chadwick, J. P. Cowen, R. P. Dziak, K. H. Rubin and D. J. Fornari. 2012. Hydrothermal discharge during submarine eruptions: The importance of detection, response, and new technology. Oceanography 25 (1), 128-141. C-DEBI Contribution 140. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Boettger, J., H.-T. Lin, J. P. Cowen, M. Hentscher, and J. P. Amend. 2013. Energy yields from chemolithotrophic metabolisms in igneous basement of the Juan de Fuca ridge flank system. Chemical Geology 337/338, 11-19. C-DEBI Contribution 141. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Colwell, F. S., and S. D’Hondt. 2013. Nature and extent of the deep biosphere. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 75 (1), 547-574. C-DEBI Contribution 142. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Durbin, A. M., and A. Teske. 2012. Archaea in organic-lean and organic-rich marine subsurface sediments: An environmental gradient reflected in distinct phylogenetic lineages. Frontiers in Microbiology 3 (168). C-DEBI Contribution 143. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Singer, E., J. F. Heidelberg, A. Dhillon and K. J. Edwards. 2013. Metagenomic insights into the dominant Fe(II) oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria from an iron mat at Loi'hi, Hawai'i. Frontiers in Microbiology 4 (52). C-DEBI Contribution 144. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Robidart, J., S. Callister, P. Song, C. Nicora, C. Wheat, and P. Girguis. 2013. Characterizing Microbial Community and Geochemical Dynamics at Hydrothermal Vents Using Osmotically Driven Continuous Fluid Samplers. Environmental Science & Technology 47 (9), 4399-4407. C-DEBI Contribution 145. [Publisher's Link]
  
  
• Expedition 336 Scientists. 2012. Mid-Atlantic Ridge microbiology: Initiation of long-term coupled microbiological, geochemical, and hydrological experimentation within the seafloor at North Pond, western flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. IODP Preliminary Report 336. C-DEBI Contribution 146. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Flores, G. E., M. Shakya, J. Meneghin, Z. Yang, J.S. Seewald, C. G. Wheat, M. Podar, and A.-L. Reysenbach. 2012. Inter-field variability in the microbial communities of hydrothermal vent deposits from a back-arc basin. Geobiology 10(4), 333-346. C-DEBI Contribution 147. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Fornari, D.J., K.L. Von Damm, J.G. Bryce, J.P. Cowen, V. Ferrini, A. Fundis, M.D. Lilley, G.W. Luther III, L.S. Mullineaux, M.R. Perfit, M.F. Meana-Prado, K.H. Rubin, W.E. Seyfried Jr., T.M. Shank, S.A. Soule, M. Tolstoy, and S.M. White. 2012. The East Pacific Rise between 9°N and 10°N: Twenty-five years of integrated, multidisciplinary oceanic spreading center studies. Oceanography 25 (1), 18-43. C-DEBI Contribution 148. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Hayakawa, D. H., M. J. Huggett, and M. S. Rappe. 2011. Ecology and cultivation of marine oligotrophic bacteria. In K. Horikoshi, G. Antranikian, A. T. Bull, F. Robb, and K. Stetter, Extremophiles Handbook, Springer-Verlag, 1161-1178. C-DEBI Contribution 149. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Sylvan, J. B., T. Y. Sia, A. G. Haddad, L. J. Briscoe, B. M. Toner, P. R. Girguis and K. J. Edwards. 2013. Low temperature geomicrobiology follows host rock composition along a geochemical gradient in Lau Basin. Frontiers in Microbiology 4 (61). C-DEBI Contribution 150. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! Curtis, A., C. G. Wheat, P. Fryer and C. Moyer. 2013. Mariana forearc serpentinite mud volcanoes harbor novel communities of extremophilic Archaea. Geomicrobiology Journal 30 (1), 1-12. C-DEBI Contribution 151. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Nigro, L. M., K. Harris, B. N. Orcutt, A. Hyde, S. Clayton-Luce, K. Becker and A. Teske. 2012. Microbial communities at the borehole observatory on the Costa Rica Rift flank (Ocean Drilling Program Hole 896A). Frontiers in Microbiology 3 (232). C-DEBI Contribution 153. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Popa, R., A. R. Smith, R. Popa, J. Boone and M. R. Fisk. 2012. Olivine-respiring bacteria isolated from the rock-ice interface in a lava-tube cave, a Mars analog environment. Astrobiology 12 (1), 9-18. C-DEBI Contribution 155. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Teske, A. 2012. Tracking microbial habitats in subseafloor sediments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (42), 16756-16757. C-DEBI Contribution 158. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Zhang, G., C. Smith-Duque, S. Tang, H. Li, C. Zarikian, S. D’Hondt, F. Inagaki and IODP Expedition 329 Scientists. 2012. Geochemistry of basalts from IODP Site U1365: Implications for magmatism and mantle source signatures of the mid-Cretaceous Osbourn Trough. Lithos 144/145, 73-87. C-DEBI Contribution 159. [Publisher's Link]
   
• Ziebis, W., J. McManus, T. Ferdelman, F. Schmidt-Schierhorn, W. Bach, J. Muratli, K. J. Edwards and H. Villinger. 2012. Interstitial fluid chemistry of sediments underlying the North Atlantic gyre and the influence of subsurface fluid flow. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 323/324, 79-91. C-DEBI Contribution 160. [Publisher's Link]
   
• NEW! D’Hondt, S., F. Inagaki, C. Alvarez Zarikian, and the IODP Expedition 329 Scientific Party. 2013. IODP Expedition 329: Life and habitability beneath the seafloor of the South Pacific Gyre. Scientific Drilling 15, 4-10. C-DEBI Contribution 161. [Publisher's PDF]
   
• NEW! Dunlea, A. G., R. W. Murray, R. N. Harris, M. A. Vasiliev, H. Evans, A. J. Spivack, and S. D’Hondt. 2013. Assessment and use of NGR instrumentation on the JOIDES Resolution to quantify U, Th, and K concentrations in marine sediment. Scientific Drilling 15, 57-63. C-DEBI Contribution 162. [Publisher's PDF]

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