{"id":10298,"date":"2016-09-29T13:51:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T20:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=10298"},"modified":"2016-12-12T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:13:54","slug":"she-studies-underwater-methane-eating-microbes-that-keep-our-planet-in-balance-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/she-studies-underwater-methane-eating-microbes-that-keep-our-planet-in-balance-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"She studies underwater methane-eating microbes that keep our planet in balance. Genius!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring C-DEBI scientist Victoria Orphan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of feet below the sea, in deposits crowded around the edges of the continents, there is more methane than you can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously \u2014 whatever you are imagining, triple it. You\u2019re getting close. Triple it again. There could be more methane in the ocean than all other fossil fuels on the planet. Some is held in deep, underwater reservoirs of oil and gas, but the majority of the methane is believed to be stored in a kind of slushy, fizzy ice called a \u201cmethane hydrate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe actually don\u2019t have a very good quantitative understanding of how much hydrate is out there,\u201d says biologist Victoria Orphan, a long-time explorer of one of the last great unknown places on Earth. \u201cVery little of the deep sea has been studied by scientists \u2014 probably less than 1 or 2 percent of all the seafloor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring C-DEBI scientist Victoria Orphan Excerpt: Thousands of feet below the sea, in deposits crowded around the edges of the continents, there is more methane than you can imagine. Seriously \u2014 whatever you are imagining, triple it. You\u2019re getting close. Triple it again. There could be more methane in the ocean than all other fossil&#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":[68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10298"}],"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=10298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10323,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10298\/revisions\/10323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10298"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=10298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}