• Question: Why do you like researching about extremophiles?

    Asked by 268tema45 to Kate on 10 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I work on volcanoes and the magmas that drive them, rather than on the high temperature extremophiles that live in the very inhospitable, hot and often acidic volcanic systems, so I don’t want to talk too much about something I don’t work on. The materials I look at are often the products of bacterial and microbial activity.

      However, you can find more information about extremophiles living in hot, cold, acidic and dry conditions here:
      http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/sfs/index.jsp?id=life&sid=ext)

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