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We are proud to support the following C-DEBI projects.
Mark Friedman, Animo Leadership
Charter High School
Attendance at 2010 National Association of Biology Teachers
(NABT) conference
Mark Friedman presented the workshop "Teach Marine Biology
in Lieu of Biology" at the 2010 National Association
of Biology Teachers conference in Minneapolis. This comprehensive
biology course for high school students focuses on marine
life and covers all California State Biology Standards. Developed
by Los Angeles area high school teachers who currently teach
Biology and Marine Biology with support from COSEE-West, online
and sample materials (lesson plans, labs, activities, games,
puzzles, web interactives, movies with thought questions,
web quests, etc. with many resources available in Spanish
for ELL) were introduced. The workshop also introduced educators
to the new C-DEBI project including the “Adopt a microbe”
effort, the ability to SKYPE the Joides Resolution from classrooms,
and the forthcoming materials like lesson plans and activities
that will be developed by teachers and students associated
with C-DEBI.
Brian Glazer, University of
Hawaii
Participation on AT18-07 Juan de Fuca Ridge expedition
Glazer’s participation on the AT18-07 expedition to
the Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank was part of a collaborative effort
researching geochemistry and microbiology of subsurface fluids
obtained from CORK observatories. During this cruise Glazer’s
primary goals were to conduct in situ electrochemical
and optical oxygen measurements during real-time fluid sampling
on ROV Jason-II, and to recover and redeploy an in situ
electrochemical analyzer on a time-series instrument sled
(GeoMICROBE) deployed to 1301A in 2010. In combination with
temperature and optical oxygen measurements, in situ
voltammetry was a useful real-time diagnostic indicator of
successful connection to the CORK Fluid Delivery System. Preliminary
results suggest delivery of fluids to seafloor samplers during
AT18-07, especially at 1362B and 1362A, were highest integrity,
lowest oxygen, formation fluids collected to date.
Beth Orcutt, Aarhus University,
USC
Attendance at 2010 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting
My attendance at this conference promoted oceanic subsurface
microbial observatory research in general and also encouraged
future collaborations with the terrestrial subsurface research
community, as well as promoting the educational goals of C-DEBI.
I presented results of the collaborative research in development
and use of oceanic subsurface microbial observatories in the
AGU Session H52: “Rocks, Fractures, Fluids and Life;
Insights from Underground Research Laboratories”. I
highlighted the ongoing observatory work being conducted on
the Juan de Fuca Ridge flank, a central focus of the C-DEBI
program. In addition, I presented information about the “Adopt
A Microbe” (AAM) education and outreach project in the
AGU Session ED17: “Teacher Professional Development
Programs Promoting Authentic Scientific Research in the Classroom”.
AAM was a custom internet-based project of IODP Expedition
327 to promote interactive learning about microbial life in
the deep biosphere. With encouragement from the Deep Earth
Academy, I presented information about how the project was
developed and provided user-feedback to help a future generation
of expedition educators develop similar programs. I also volunteered
at the C-DEBI vendor booth at the AGU conference, to further
promote CDEBI to the research and education communities.
NEW!
Beth Orcutt, Aarhus University, USC and Everett Salas, Photon
Systems
Evaluating
the use of common fluorophore-oligonucleotide probes and
stains for identifying specific groups of microorganisms
with deep UV-induced fluorescence
This exchange is for travel and research support for a new
collaborative project aiming to expand the utility of deep
UV fluorescence microscopy techniques for working with environmental
samples. Specifically, we propose to test the applicability
of common fluorophore-labeled oligonucleotides, often used
in environmental microbiology studies to determine the abundance
of particular microbial groups, to sample scanning with current
deep UV microscopes. We predict that some fluorophores should
generate unique spectral signatures with deep UV excitation,
and that these signatures could be utilized for mapping the
distribution of specific microbial groups targeted with oligonucleotide-fluorophore
probes. If successful, the combination of group-specific labeling
of cells with deep UV fluorescence scanning will provide a
powerful new tool for the C-DEBI community.
> See more on our research
and travel exchange program.
> Our DEBI
RCN Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Exchange program
also supports graduate student and Postdoctoral research exchanges
to facilitate collaborations among deep biosphere research
groups with the end goal of building and educating the community.
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