Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/T/S/2000/01373
Isobaric in situ microbiological and physiochemical sampling of marine extremophiles - new protocols for understanding life in extreme environments.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor A Schultz, Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
- Grant held at:
- Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Freshwater
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Environmental Microbiology
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Ecosystem Scale Processes
- Technol. for Environ. Appl.
- Abstract:
- We propose to develop and operate, as a facility for general use by NERC supported scientists in the UK, tools for sampling microbes from seafloor hydrothermal outflow, subsurface formation fluids, seafloor sediments in aqueous suspension, and the water column. The creation of this facility will to make it possible to return such samples to the laboratory under isobaric conditions to maximise viability of barophilic cultures. The field apparatus constructed under the support of this programme will make it possible for subsequent research projects to obtain and process previously unculturable samples, and in future to examine the interrelationships between seawater, formation fluid and vent fluid chemistry, P-T regime and microecology for communities of extremophiles.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/T/S/2000/01373
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Marine & Freshwater Microbial
This grant award has a total value of £187,403
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Equipment | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £63,710 | £2,282 | £83,756 | £8,349 | £29,307 |
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