What's really cool about this site is that there's a really
tall chimney structure, and yeah- they keep saying it's the largest
biological iron structure. It was on the back art of the mariana,
So we sampled the bottom, and the middle, and the top of this
structure. We got scoop samples, we got slurp samples, and we got
biomat samples. The biomat sampler is that cassette sampler,
So we get that really fine scale, community structure. So, the ones
that settle out are - have a lot more mineral particles in them.
And so those tend to be less active. and so the fluffy stuff
is where we think we have the active zetaproteo bacteria. See?
Not fluffy. Not fluffy enough at all. and this is fluffy. We want
fluffy. So what I'm going to do when I get home is going to
compare these samples, find the ones that are the most zeta
enriched, so determine the zeta percentage of the samples and
then I will do metageonomics. Which means I will sequence all
of it. And then from that I will determine what genes are
responsible for carbon fixation, umm how are electrons getting
transferred, so how are they making their energy, how are they
making a living.