Frank Reith, Maggy F Lengke, Donna Falconer, David Craw and Gordon Southam School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, CSIRO Land and Water, Waite Laboratories, Urrbrae, South Australia, Australia; Geomega Inc., Boulder, CO, USA; Department of Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, Londo...

The deep-sea piezosphere accounts for approximately 75% of the total ocean volume and hosts active and diverse biological communities. Evidence obtained thus far suggests that the microbial biomass present in the piezosphere is significant. Continued international interest in exploring the deep ocean provides impetus to increase our understanding of the deep-sea piezosphere and of the influence...

Changes in the spectrum and rates of extracellular enzyme activities in seawater following aggregate formation K. Ziervogel, A. D. Steen, and C. Arnosti Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapman Hall, CB#3300, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3300, USA now at: Center for Geomicrobiology, University of Århus, Ny Munkgade 1540, 0800 Århus C, Denmark Received: 16 Nov...

Different methods have been developed for mineral exploration so far, amongst which biological-based methods known as geomicrobiological studies are of the most recent ones. Geomicrobiology as an interdisciplinary approach has achieved great progresses during the past two decades and involves the study of microbes in a number of fundamental geological processes, both in the past and present. Th...