This work is at the frontier of hydrology, microbiology and geology.
“It seems every time someone scratches a new spot in the subsurface, we find life existing somewhere we didn’t think it could before and one of the key aspects to that seems to be circulating water,” said co-author Dr. Grant Ferguson (PhD), a professor with the University of Saskatchewan College of Engineering, School of Environment and Sustainability, and member of the Global Institute for Water Security.
“What we think we’re seeing in the subsurface is that it hasn’t adjusted to our current geology yet,” Ferguson said. “We’re looking at not only deep hydrology in the depth but deep time, too.”