Study involves basic research on dark ocean microorganisms
Although microbes that live in the so-called “dark
ocean”—below a depth of some 600 feet where light doesn’t penetrate—may not
absorb enough carbon to curtail global warming, they do absorb considerable
amounts of carbon and merit further study.
That is one of the findings of a paper published in the
International Society of Microbial Ecology (ISME) Journal by Tim Mattes,
associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in the University of
Iowa College of Engineering, and his colleagues.