Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/H021531/1
The 'sleeping' biosphere - endospores in deep marine sediments
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr H Sass, Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor RJ Parkes, Cardiff University, Sch of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor AJ Weightman, Cardiff University, School of Biosciences
- Grant held at:
- Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Environmental Microbiology
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Sediment/Sedimentary Processes
- Abstract:
- The Deep Biosphere is a major new area in Geosciences and the presence of possibly the largest prokaryotic biomass on Earth being in the deep subsurface is both astonishing and still controversial. This has fuelled wide interest and a string of papers in Nature and Science, as well as wide press and public interest. This project will investigate a new aspect of deep biosphere research by quantifying and investigating the role of prokaryotic spores, which could represent a very significant proportion of previously detected cells in deep sediments. As they do not show detectable metabolism, the presence of large number of spores could help to explain the paradox of large numbers of cells in the deep biosphere while only very little energy is available. Thus this research will have the same broad interest as previous Deep Biosphere studies.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/H021531/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grant (FEC)
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £309,283
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DI - Equipment | DA - Estate Costs | DI - Staff | DA - Other Directly Allocated | DI - T&S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £36,791 | £95,346 | £44,578 | £16,612 | £36,243 | £76,378 | £620 | £2,717 |
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