Linkages to Microbial Diversity and Their Environment Within Active Submarine Hydrothermal Systems

1998年，在胡安·德富卡海岭奋进段的莫斯拉热液区发现了四个大型硫醚结构。 在这项研究中要检查的四个明显不同的样本提供了一个机会，以检查环境梯度内的微生物的系统发育和代谢多样性，包括一系列条件中的洋中脊热液环境。 将对这些样品的矿物-化学-微生物梯度进行全面测绘和表征。

In 1998 four large suflide structures were recovered from the Mothra hydrothermal field on the Endeavour segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. The four distinctly different samples to be examined in this study provide an opportunity to examine the phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of microorganisms within the environmental gradients that comprise a range of conditions in a mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal setting. The mineralogical-chemical-microbiological gradients witin these samples will be thoroughly mapped and characterized.