There and Back Again: Deep-Sea Exploration to the Earth's Most Extreme Habitats March 9, 2011

The majority of our biosphere consists of deep ocean, but to date we have explored very little of it. Indeed, just thirty years ago scientists discovered entirely new ecosystems thriving on chemicals from within the Earth (rather than from sunlight). Harvard biologist Peter Girguis, Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard, will highlight some of these amazing deep-sea explorations and discuss current research, including the role of deep-sea microbes in mitigating oil spill disasters.

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