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Oh wow!

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Grab that.

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It’s like fishing.

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Aren’t they cute?

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They’re so dead, yes. Well, we did just decompress them from 1,600 meters.

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So these are all from three different iron sites.

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One of the samples had a lot of fluffy mat.

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This is a fluffy sample and this is the rocky sample.

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Or, not so fluffy.

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So we’re looking for these Zetaproteobacteria, the iron oxidizers.

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So you can see how orange these are, so that’s iron oxide.

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And you can even see particulates in there.

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I’m interested in microbes growing specifically on the rocks.

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Seafloor basalt and silicates in general is the largest continuous habitat on the planet.

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And it’s also, there tends to be pretty high biomass at the seafloor,

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so understanding who’s there, what they’re doing, and how quickly they’re doing those things has important implications for kind of understanding the global carbon cycle.

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This is the side that I’ve taken off. It’s like a little curtain. And there it is on the other side.

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And then it filters the water through this, there’s the little hole, here.

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And that goes up into the stomach, which is up in through here, underneath.

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This is when the geologist says, “ew.”

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Well done. On cue.