Extreme spatial and temporal variability of hydrothermal microbial mat communities along the Mariana Island Arc and southern Mariana back-arc system (JGR 2008, 113:B08S15)

Abundance and diversity of microbial life in ocean crust (Nature 2008, 453:653-656)

A novel lineage of Proteobacteria involved in formation of marine Fe-oxidizing microbial mat communities (PLoS ONE 2007, 2:e667)

Psychrophiles and psychrotrophs (Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, 2007)

Characterization of bacterial community structure in vestimentiferan tubeworm Ridgeia piscesae trophosomes (Mar. Ecol. 2007, 28:72-85)

Bacterial community structure in ancient Siberian permafrost as characterized by culture and culture-independent methods (Astrobiol. 2006, 6:400-414)

Marinobacter alkaliphilus sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic bacterium isolated from subseafloor alkaline serpentine mud from ODP Site 1200 at South Chamorro Seamount, Mariana Forearc (Extremophiles 2005, 9:17-27)

Metal reduction at cold temperatures by Shewanella isolates from various marine environments (Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 2005, 38:81-91)

Deep-slab fluids fuel extremophilic Archaea on a Mariana forearc serpentine mud volcano: Ocean Drilling Program Leg 195 (Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 2003, 4(11):2003GC000588)

Fidelity of select restriction endonucleases in determining microbial diversity by terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2003, 69:4823-4829)

Neutrophilic Fe-oxidizing bacteria are abundant at the Loihi Seamount hydrothermal vents and play a major role in Fe oxide deposition (Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2002, 68:3085-3093)

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Current Research Project Links:

Bacteria "Feed" on Earth's Ocean-Bottom Crust: 2008

Hot on the Trail of Iron-Eating Microbes: 2008

Main FeMO Website

Seamount Biogeosciences Network (SBN)

FeMO Cruise: 2007

Ring of Fire Cruise to Mariana Arc Vents: 2006

Student Dives Deep for Volcanic Research: 2005

Ring of Fire Cruise to Mariana Arc Vents: 2004

Fluffy and Flocculent Microbial Mats at NW Eifuku Volcano: 2004

Mud Volcanos from the Mantle: 2003

NeMO Program at Axial Volcano, Juan de Fuca Ridge: 1998 - 2007

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Links to Useful Database Sites:

Earth Science Reference Data and Models
ARB SILVA - Database and Alignment Tools
Ribosomal Database II V9
NCBI & GenBank

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ROV JASON II & ROPOS websites
Loihi "Real" Estate Opportunity
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