Halo/thermophiles in Yellowstone
I went to a wedding recently in Bozeman, MT and had a chance to make a quick stop at Yellowstone National park. It’s famous for microbes adapted to extremely hot and salty conditions (and I guess some sort of geysers too). Below you can see a few of the wonderful habitats. The heat is pretty [...]
Soil Incubators
One of my current projects involves incubating agricultural soils with different management histories to test how management and timing substrate addition affects soil respiration, nitrogen mineralization, and microbial community structure. The soil is sitting in a modified vacuum filter unit with a 0.2 micron filter. Sitting on a teflon plug in the middle of the [...]