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URI researchers part of international research team
An international research team
that included three scientists from the University of Rhode
Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography has discovered
single-celled microorganisms in a location where they didn’t expect to find
them.
“Water boils on the (Earth’s) surface at 100 degrees Celsius,
and we found organisms living in sediments at 120 degrees Celsius,” said URI
Professor of Oceanography Arthur Spivack, who led the geochemistry efforts of
the 2016 expedition organized
by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and
Germany’s MARUM–Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences at the
University of Bremen.