RIDGE2000 Rapid Response Activity: Microbial Response to a Deep-Sea Volcanic Eruption at 9 deg. N on the East Pacific Rise

NSF RIDGE2000计划于2007年1月在东太平洋海脊(EPR)赞助了快速反应邮轮。SGER包括调查员参加邮轮的工资费用。这位调查者进行的研究显然是对时间敏感的，并在了解热液喷口微生物群落方面进行了变革性的科学冒险。这位研究人员断言，自养细菌是热液喷口的第一批定殖者，随着时间的推移，异养微生物的数量也在增加。参与快速反应巡航使研究人员有机会进行必要的抽样来检验这一假设。巡航后的分析包括从泵过滤器中提取核酸和脂肪，以及确定定居在玄武岩上的微生物的种类。

The NSF RIDGE2000 program sponsored Rapid Response cruise in January 2007 on the East Pacific Ridge (EPR). The SGER covers salary expenses for the investigator's participation in the cruise. The research conducted by the investigator is obviously time sensitive and ventures into transformative science in understanding microbial communities at hydrothermal vents. The investigator asserts that autotrophic bacteria are the first colonizers at hydrothermal vents, followed by increasing numbers of heterotrophic microorganisms over time. Participation in the rapid response cruise allowed the investigator the opportunity to conduct the necessary sampling to test this hypothesis. Analyses following the cruise include extraction of nucleic acids and lipids from the pump filters as well as determine the kind of microbes that have colonized the basalt.