{"id":10191,"date":"2016-09-07T00:09:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T00:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=10003"},"modified":"2016-12-12T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T21:58:01","slug":"deep-sea-drilling-expedition-to-look-for-lifes-limits-in-scalding-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/deep-sea-drilling-expedition-to-look-for-lifes-limits-in-scalding-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep-sea drilling expedition to look for life&#8217;s limits in scalding environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring C-DEBI scientists Jan Amend, Bo Barker\u00a0J\u00f8rgensen, Beth Orcutt,\u00a0Kai-Uwe Hinrichs,\u00a0Victoria Orphan and Steve D&#8217;Hondt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<article class=\"primary primary--content\">\n<header class=\"article__header\">\n<h1 class=\"article__headline\"><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article__body\">\n<p>Somewhere in the sediments and rocks beneath the ocean floor, it gets too hot for living things. But how far down? Even after drilling kilometers into the ocean floor, scientists have found that microbes persist. \u201cWe keep digging and digging and digging deeper and have not hit the bottom of the biosphere,\u201d says Jan Amend, a geochemist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>A new ocean drilling expedition will try to settle the question by drilling into crust where high temperatures are found unusually close to the sea floor, bringing life\u2019s thermal limit within reach. On 13 September, the research vessel Chikyu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamstec.go.jp\/chikyu\/e\/exp370\/\">will set sail<\/a> from Shimizu, Japan, and sink its bits into a patch of ocean floor where the sediments should reach 130\u00b0C at the maximum drill depth of 1260 meters. Somewhere along the way, the team expects, life should succumb to rising temperatures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring C-DEBI scientists Jan Amend, Bo Barker\u00a0J\u00f8rgensen, Beth Orcutt,\u00a0Kai-Uwe Hinrichs,\u00a0Victoria Orphan and Steve D&#8217;Hondt. Excerpt: Somewhere in the sediments and rocks beneath the ocean floor, it gets too hot for living things. But how far down? Even after drilling kilometers into the ocean floor, scientists have found that microbes persist. \u201cWe keep digging and digging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10273,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191\/revisions\/10273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10191"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=10191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}