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

1998年，在Juan de Fuca Ridge的奋进号部分的Mothra热液区发现了四个大型硫化物结构。本研究中要检查的四个截然不同的样品提供了一个机会，可以检查环境梯度内微生物的系统发育和代谢多样性，这些梯度包括海洋中脊热液环境中的一系列条件。这些样品中的矿物学-化学-微生物梯度将被彻底绘制和表征。

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.