{"id":10305,"date":"2016-09-21T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=10305"},"modified":"2016-12-12T13:57:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T21:57:33","slug":"macarthur-winner-victoria-orphan-showed-how-deep-sea-microbes-keep-greenhouse-gas-out-of-the-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/macarthur-winner-victoria-orphan-showed-how-deep-sea-microbes-keep-greenhouse-gas-out-of-the-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"MacArthur winner Victoria Orphan showed how deep-sea microbes keep greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring C-DEBI scientist Victoria Orphan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victoria Orphan was on a boat off the Southern California coast in 1993 when she asked a graduate student sampling seawater about his research. He stained a sample with fluorescent dye and put it under a microscope. Orphan, then a UC Santa Barbara undergraduate, stared at the dense constellations of glowing microbes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like looking at the Milky Way,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was just an incredible amount of microscopic life. I\u2019ve never looked at a glass of seawater the same way since.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was the beginning of a path that put Orphan on the list of 2016 MacArthur fellows. The award comes with a $625,000 no-strings-attached \u201cgenius grant\u201d meant to encourage creative scientists, artists and other thinkers who are pushing the boundaries of their fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring C-DEBI scientist Victoria Orphan Excerpt: Victoria Orphan was on a boat off the Southern California coast in 1993 when she asked a graduate student sampling seawater about his research. He stained a sample with fluorescent dye and put it under a microscope. Orphan, then a UC Santa Barbara undergraduate, stared at the dense constellations&#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":[71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305"}],"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=10305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10306,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions\/10306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10305"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=10305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}