Thrilled to share our new paper: Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries. 🧪 @melroselane.bsky.social, @drbradbrad.bsky.social , @geobiomaggie.bsky.social, @emilruff.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A lot has been happening recently - I'm thrilled to be a Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow (as of last month!), to be a part of this amazing science, and to lead the NSF SBS/BioOce PurSUiT project on cryptic microbial lineage systematics in marine sediment! (the 2nd award mentioned here 🥳)

Organisms that are buried alive for many thousands of years without enough energy to grow could be called "aeonophiles", so we can talk about them more easily. @drewsteen.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4tzecaxn

So excited that this paper is out! We use a novel method to quantify rates of respiration in sediment-hosted cells, and reveal ecological impacts of oxygen and seaweed-derived carbon on flexible lineages inhabiting Coastal Maine sediment.

Excited to see the data that gets collected! Yay learning experiences in the field!!