tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49837412427558947672024-02-20T06:54:44.509-08:00 Adopt a Microbe <center> <b>Adopt</b> a cuddly microbe from the deep biosphere. <b> Get to know </b> your microbe through exciting weekly activities. <b> Submit </b> your weekly projects online to qualify to win one of our fabulous prizes! </center>Adopt a Microbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473346338889057107noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983741242755894767.post-45789095250844047792010-12-08T11:08:00.000-08:002010-12-08T11:08:38.907-08:00Extremophiles!Check out this Extreme Extremophile:<br />
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This little critter is always blue and MUST wear a blue tie. It eats Antarctic birds only, and survives in the coldest temperatures of Antarctica. Wow - that's cool!<br />
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Keep sending in your extremophiles and we will post them as we get them!Adopt a Microbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473346338889057107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983741242755894767.post-48981687513068701672010-12-08T10:59:00.000-08:002010-12-08T10:59:32.769-08:00Microbe Mobile!Here is a lovely Microbe Mobile sent to us from NASSA for Week 7:<br />
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We've received some great core discoveries from our esteemed NASSA group in New York.<br />
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Here's a photo of their core:<br />
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<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lillith Bulawa said this about it: This excavation is really interesting because Lake Delta is a submerged village from a hundred and fifty years ago. The more I look at this core the more fascinating it gets. Toward the bottom it gets denser and I believe I am seeing parts of an old vase. Towards the top it is grainier looking. I believe this is because over the years many rocks were dumped into the lake as the new town was built next to it. At the very top there is fine sediment I think are probably fish droppings mixed with algae that came as the lake became a more popular fishing ground. Those are my observations.</span> </div><br />
Then they cultured it and this is what they got:<br />
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<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Their comments: The one on the left is from the top of the core tube and the one on the right is from the bottom of the core. I think the one on the left has more and different microbes growing because it is harder for the microbes to grow as the core gets deeper.</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Good work guys and gals!</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">What else have you adopters discovered? </span> </div>Adopt a Microbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473346338889057107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983741242755894767.post-17371862335264381042010-11-15T12:49:00.000-08:002010-11-15T12:50:30.732-08:00Microbe Math Answers!We received these answers from the Neighborhood After School Academy in New York:<br />
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<div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">1. 999000000 more microbes</span> </div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">2. 13.6842%</span> </div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">3. 24,400 square cm of space needed so everyone could fit</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">NASSA will be earning a bunch of Adopt a Microbe t-shirts! </span> </div></div>Adopt a Microbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473346338889057107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983741242755894767.post-5036639909934239662010-11-08T08:56:00.000-08:002010-11-08T08:56:16.582-08:00Microbe Poetry is in the house!<div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">We have many budding poets among our Adopters - see some of our Week 4 submissions:</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">From Karen Miller,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> for #11 S. loihica </span><span style="font-size: small;">(Marine Bio teacher, South Rowan HS, China Grove, NC, USA)</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Happily eating iron and manganese near the vent</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Shewanella loihicas near Hawaii seemed so content.</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">When food became tight, </span></b></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">They got into a fight,</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">So a move towards the Arctic some underwent.</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">From Elizabeth Biles & Dylan Bean </span><span style="font-size: small;">for #6 M aquaeolei (Marine Bio students, SRHS, China Grove, NC, USA)</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: inherit;" /></span> <div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">As a Marinobacter, I'm a microbe who's versatile,</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Living in deep water, but oil wells once in a while.</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Iron is what I eat, </span></b></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Although it isn't meat,</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Slimy film and rust I excrete to the nearby pile.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>From </span><span>Brandi Smith & Kyler Sutherland</span><span>, for #12: </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Thiomargarita namibiensis (Marine Bio students, SRHS, China Grove, NC, USA)</span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span>There has never been one so big</span></span></b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span>It’s not quite the size of a fig</span></span></b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span>It’s big and round</span></span></b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span>And easily found</span></span></b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span>If I found one, its name would be Thig.</span></span></b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br />
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</span></span> </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span></span>From the </span><span style="font-size: small;">NASSA group, in honor of photobacterium profundum: </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"> </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">A microbe we nicknamed photofun</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Living deep in the earth without sun</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">In hi pressure it plays</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Eating carbon all day</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The J.R. will research it a ton</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: inherit;" /></span><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>Adopt a Microbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473346338889057107noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983741242755894767.post-74429841765559483242010-11-08T08:47:00.000-08:002010-11-08T08:47:46.806-08:00More Microbe PhotosWe just received a whole new batch of wonderful microbes that Adopters made! See below:<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">Congratulations to microbe builders Erick and Beth. They created a hungry microbe that we are highlighting this week. Here is what their microbe looks like. Be sure to email your Weekly Activity photos to JR!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIMD7PF6Kl87V7YWThtkKhyphenhyphenloJVsmZadgOId36wMNU2fd4MJ9lznsyKPgy34RCi8OLGIlpuc4BgN9br4UDoEOnamccWssMUYNiaKhMadDQKNae9DgB7Ph8zV2dCM3zs9hwhXQ4awgQcYWG/s1600/Microbe_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIMD7PF6Kl87V7YWThtkKhyphenhyphenloJVsmZadgOId36wMNU2fd4MJ9lznsyKPgy34RCi8OLGIlpuc4BgN9br4UDoEOnamccWssMUYNiaKhMadDQKNae9DgB7Ph8zV2dCM3zs9hwhXQ4awgQcYWG/s320/Microbe_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div>Adopt a Microbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473346338889057107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983741242755894767.post-18404363295279864882010-11-03T10:29:00.000-07:002010-11-03T10:29:20.897-07:00Adopt a Microbe T-shirts!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwn25bmXORy7Rwc88xIKiYlTGH6nJ9zJAUXRpEoocRa047h3cttW-qKjS7pz1K9RgMR8oLnBswquV9BdXhmTFGxrstzWBeSsPr5Em60lD94P6sCJIXo8ircwPuNkJm_6ckeZhup5GsSH8S/s1600/wm-front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwn25bmXORy7Rwc88xIKiYlTGH6nJ9zJAUXRpEoocRa047h3cttW-qKjS7pz1K9RgMR8oLnBswquV9BdXhmTFGxrstzWBeSsPr5Em60lD94P6sCJIXo8ircwPuNkJm_6ckeZhup5GsSH8S/s1600/wm-front.jpg" /></a></div>Here's a sneak peak at our limited edition Adopt a Microbe t-shirts - which you can win by participating in the weekly activities! You know you have to have one!Adopt a Microbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473346338889057107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983741242755894767.post-73271008031015562882010-10-28T11:16:00.000-07:002010-12-04T09:20:16.438-08:00Week 8 Activity Due This Week!Greetings Microbe Adopters! We hope you've been having fun with the weekly activities. If you haven't already, check out the Week 8 Activity in the lefthand column and learn about extremophiles! <br />
The deadline is coming soon, be sure to send your photos.<br />
And read what your friendly J.R. Microbe has been up to lately <a href="http://joidesresolution.org/blog/249">here.</a> He's been having a blast on board Expedition 329!Adopt a Microbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473346338889057107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983741242755894767.post-20612296658629460932010-09-18T02:11:00.001-07:002010-10-13T10:05:55.558-07:00 Sign Up Now and Win Free Adopt a Microbe T-Shirts! <div style="text-align: center;"><b>Note: </b>Adopt your Microbe by Nov. 2 and be entered to win Adopt a Microbe T-Shirts! </div>Adopt a Microbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473346338889057107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983741242755894767.post-22408727620230873772010-09-17T21:56:00.000-07:002010-10-28T09:04:17.938-07:00 Welcome to the Adopt a Microbe from the Deep Biosphere Project Website! <div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjogDhj3t0GwLagykJdEk1NNoZgk5SuHnFf9zTHpfPZKneUrSsd9Of9Tf8Ffx5UJdNR9bSdm3C6Q-JlTsokE5gZifYbvK23fEyXvWOfn0nVINmjWO74ac4BM2HqetInuyQvKXb-fM7CkSQV/s1600/banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="67" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjogDhj3t0GwLagykJdEk1NNoZgk5SuHnFf9zTHpfPZKneUrSsd9Of9Tf8Ffx5UJdNR9bSdm3C6Q-JlTsokE5gZifYbvK23fEyXvWOfn0nVINmjWO74ac4BM2HqetInuyQvKXb-fM7CkSQV/s400/banner.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
This is an outreach project of the <a href="http://joidesresolution.org/" rel="nofollow">JOIDES Resolution</a> and <a href="http://joidesresolution.org/node/1412" rel="nofollow">IODP Expedition 329</a>! There are many cute and cuddly microbes up for virtual<b><a href="http://adoptamicrobe329.blogspot.com/p/adoption-center_18.html"> 'adoption'</a> </b>- we hope that one of them can find a home with you! <br />
This interactive project was designed to help raise awareness among school kids (and life-long learners!) about the wonders of ‘microbes’ (i.e. tiny organisms like bacteria that can only be seen with a microscope) living in the 'deep biosphere' of the Earth.<br />
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<b>What is the Deep Biosphere?</b><br />
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<div>In the ocean, this phrase refers to all of the places buried underneath the seafloor, including muddy and sandy sediments, the rocky oceanic crust, and all of the water circulating in and out of hydrothermal vents <b> (which are like hot springs on the seafloor). </b> We know that tiny little life forms exist down there, but we don't know much about who they are and what they are doing (yet!). We really want to find out, because although the microbes are tiny individually, combined all together we think they make up a huge fraction of life on Earth. And considering that they live in such an<b> extreme (for us, not to them)</b> environment, if we learn more about how the microbes make a living there, we might figure out how life could exist in other strange places like other planets.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Ready to Adopt a Microbe? Here's Some Things You Should Know </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div style="text-align: center;">Microbe adoption is virtual - we will NOT be sending you real microbes in the mail! When you visit the <a href="http://adoptamicrobe329.blogspot.com/p/adoption-center_18.html">Adoption Center </a>and choose, you are basically indicating that you are interested in following along with our weekly web-based activities to learn more about microbial life in the deep ocean. Participation is totally voluntary. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<b>How Does Adoption Work?</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">(1) check out our <a href="http://adoptamicrobe329.blogspot.com/p/adoption-center_18.html"><b>Adoption Center</b> </a>to find out which microbes are up for adoption. Please note that each microbe can be adopted by multiple persons/groups.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">(2) Fill our our online<a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dE9mRl9GSWxqOUVwMkF2RENnRWYxWFE6MQ"> <b>Adoption Form</b></a><b> </b>indicating your Microbe and provide us with your information so you can receive weekly updates and possibly receive lovely microbial prizes!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">(3) Visit the Adopt a Microbe website every week during the course of the project (it ends 13 December 2010) to learn about the weekly activities, watch awesome new videos, read our hilarious blogs about life in the deep biosphere, and giggle at our daily shenanigans while sailing the high seas onboard the JOIDES Resolution Expedition 329.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">(4) (Almost) every Monday, we will post a new activity for you to complete (don't worry - it will be fun!). Every Thursday, send us your creative projects. Regular participants will be win a limited edition Adopt a Microbe t-shirt or one of our other awesome prizes!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Some things you may need:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">* an internet connection</div><div style="text-align: center;">* a digital still and/or video camera</div><div style="text-align: center;">* arts and crafts stuff - balloons, markers, paint, tape, glue, fabric...you get the idea</div><div style="text-align: center;">* A Do-It-Yourself science fair kit to grow your own microbes - find the kit at this website: <a href="http://www.super-science-fair-projects.com/surface-microbes-science-fair-projects.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.super-science-fair-projects.com/surface-microbes-science-fair-projects.html</a></div></div>Adopt a Microbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10473346338889057107noreply@blogger.com0