Center Documents

• 2009 C-DEBI Proposal, NSF Science and Technology Center
  Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI): A center for resolving the extent, fuction, dynamics and implications of the subseafloor biosphere [PDF]
   
• 2007 Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Proposal, South Pacific Gyre Expedition
  Life beneath the seafloor of the South Pacific Gyre [PDF]
   
• 2005 Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Proposal, North Pond Expedition
  Microbiology of a sediment pond and the underlying young, cold, hydrologically active ridge flank [PDF]
   
• 2003 Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Drilling Proposal, Juan de Fuca Expedition
  Hydrogeologic architecture of basaltic oceanic crust: Compartmentalization, anisotropy, microbiology, and crustal-scale properties on the Eastern flank of Juan de Fuca Ridge [PDF]

• 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 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 - External Advisory Board Members - Media Publicity - Participants, Affiliates, and Partners - Organizational Strategy - Partner Institutions, Personnel, and Affiliates - DEBI RCN Sediment Microbiology Meeting Participant List
   
• 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 - New Faculty Members - Theme Team Workshop Report: Extent of Life - Theme Team Workshop Report: Evolution and Survival of Life - Theme Team Workshop Report: Limits to Life - Public Awareness - Participants and Affiliates - GEM Course Evaluation - Management Organizational Structure - Advisory Committee Summary - Institutional Partners - Distributable Media

• 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 Proceedings of the IODP, Expedition 327, edited by A. T. Fisher, T. Tsuji and K. Petronotis, 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 Proceedings of the IODP, Expedition 327, edited by A. T. Fisher, T. Tsuji and K. Petronotis, 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 Proceedings of the IODP, Expedition 327, edited by A. T. Fisher, T. Tsuji, and K. Petronotis, 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]
   
• 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]
   
• 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]
   
• 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. 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]
   
• 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]
   

> See also the Theme Team Meeting Reports and the DEBI RCN Annual Meeting Reports
> See the details of our NSF award