Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, University of Delaware College of Marine Studies, & NOAA Sea Grant A Deep-Sea Odyssey

I am currently a second-year graduate student at the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography. I study the interactions between bacteria and dissolved manganese. These are bacteria that form metal oxide crusts around themselves and they are very important in geochemical cycling of trace metals. On the

Extreme 2001 cruise, I will be a member of both the molecular and culture teams, extracting DNA and culturing bacteria from the hydrothermal vents.
Copyright University of Delaware, Oct. 2001.