All Things Microbial Group
Laboratory News
In August of 2012 we welcome the completion of Phylicia Saner's Masters Thesis entitled, "Microbial Analysis of the Niobrara Formation for Microbially Enhanced Oil Recovery and Contaminant Tracing Application." This geobiologically focused and relevant thesis examined the subsurface microbiota associated with the Niobrara formation and was made possible with the combined efforts of Phylicia working with Shannon Ulrich. Phylicia is on her way to Occidental Petroleum--congratulations to Phylicia!
In May of 2012 we welcome the completion of Jackson Lee's Ph.D. Thesis, "A Molecular Biology Approach to the Study of Single Cell Protein Produced from Brewery Wastewater." Congratulations Dr. Jackson Lee!! Jackson has started a postdoc at NASA Ames, Moffat Field, California working with Dr. Brad Bebout.
Read a Feature Story in the Winter 2012 Mines Magazine, "Engineering on a Grand Scale with the Smallest of the Small," (http://minesmagazine.com/5472/) an accompanying editorial by Nick Sutcliffe, Editor of Mines Magazine (http://minesmagazine.com/5329/) and a Podcast of John Spear's featured talk of his research group's work (http://magazine.mines.edu/Audio/2011-11_spear_podcast.mp3).
A comment from Spear, who works with heavy metals, radionuclides and their interaction with microbes, on the subject of radionuclides found in southern Colorado drinking water can be found at (http://www.krdo.com/news/Radiation-In-Colorado-Drinking-Water/-/417220/1646052/-/k2p10i/-/index.html).
We welcome the completion of Jackson Lee's Ph.D. Thesis, "A Molecular Biology Approach to the Study of Single Cell Protein Produced from Brewery Wastewater." Congratulations Dr. Jackson Lee!!
Our Laboratory
The Fish Food Project
Single Cell Protein from a Wastewater Stream, Rumbles, November 2008 (PDF)
Beer Waste Brewing Fish Food, Rocky Mountain News, 14 December 2007 (link)
Colorado Company to Convert Wastewater to Fish Feed, Seafood Currents, 17 December 2007 (PDF)
Happy New Year! Monterey Bay Aquarium Sea Notes, 2 January 2008 (PDF)
Colorado Company to Make Fish Food from Beer Wastewater, Colorado Matters (Public Radio), 16 January 2008 (link)
International Geobiology Course
Geobiology, changing the face of Geology, Mines Magazine, Fall 2008 (link)
DEPTHX
Diving Robot Discovers Life in the Slow Lane, Astrobiology Magazine, 5 August 2010 link
Swimming to Europa, IEEE Spectrum, September, 2007 link or PDF
Robo Explorer Goes Deep, Cosmic Log, February 28, 2007 link
Science Magazine, News Focus, 19 January 2007 PDF or link
Pulse of the Planet, heard on National Public Radio, August - September, 2007
Robot Dives Deep for Sinkhole Slime, Astrobiology Magazine, 25 June 2007 link
NASA in Deep Water, Mines Magazine, Spring-Summer, 2007 link
NASA Probes Sinkhole as Proxy for Icy Moon, Reuters, 18 May 2007 link
NASA Mission Explores World's Deepest Sinkhole, ScienceDaily.com, 14 May 2007 link
Mexican Sinkhole may Lead NASA to Jupiter, Washington Post, 14 May 2007 link
Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL)
Newsday, 24 December 2006 link
Yellowstone
Hydrogen in Yellowstone:
Discover Magazine, #62 in the Top 100 Science Stories of 2005, January 2006: link
Billings Gazette, 26 January 2005: link
Endoliths in Yellowstone: Billings Gazette, 22 April 2005: link
National Public Radio
"The DNA Files--Life in Hell," Nationwide Broadcast, November 2001. link
Guerrero Negro / Evaporites
Long Live the Salt of the Earth, Science Magazine, 24 May 2002: link
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