Professor Cheryl Kelley's Research
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Mary Hogan of the Microbial Ecology/Biogeochemistry
Research Lab at NASA Ames Research Center, CA,
collecting a square of microbial mat from the Guerrero Negro
salt ponds to be transported back to the greenhouse facility
at NASA Ames Research Center. These mats continue to be
studied because of their evolutionary link to early life on this
planet, and because they can be used as an analogue to life
on other planets, such as Mars, where we are now finding
evidence for paleo-hypersaline environments. Prof. Cheryl
Kelley is studying stable isotope compositions of the mats.
Greenhouse One at NASA Ames Research Center. Inside,
microbial mats have been maintained for over a year.
For a live look inside the greenhouse,
go to http://greencam.arc.nasa.gov.
Oxygen microelectrode measuring an oxygen profile
in one of the microbial mats located in Greenhouse One.
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