We propose the analysis of subsurface microbial and archeal communities
from hydrothermal waters collected from geothermal exploration drillings
along the northern part of Greece. More...
We propose the analysis of subsurface microbial and archeal communities
from hydrothermal waters collected from geothermal exploration drillings
along the northern part of Greece. All the drillings have been drilled at
least 10 years ago, are cased up to more than 100 m depth and have
artesian flow excluding interactions with shallow aquifers. The selected
sites cover a wide range of temperatures, salinities, and ionic and dissolved gas
composition. Their features are close to those of continental smokers
recently defined and characterized in the USA. The main goals of this
research are to describe the bacterial and archaeal communities of
European black smokers, to investigate the role of physico-chemical
characteristics on the distribution of microbial taxa among these
geothermal waters, to detect novel taxa and to compare life of continental
smokers with submarine black smokers. Lead PI: Walter D' Alessandro, walter.dalessandro@ingv.it Less...