Diving in the Rain
Members of the Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) have been studying unique structures on the floor of Canada's Kelly Lake as part of their 2011 field season.
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A New Look at the Sulfur Cycle
The record of Earth's sulfur cycle preserved in sedimentary rocks is commonly used to track the evolution of microbial sulfur metabolisms and levels of atmospheric oxygen throughout geologic history.
Research... at a Glance
Go Jump in a Lake
The main work of the Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) involves the exploration of Kelly Lake with piloted submersible vehicles. But team members are also performing scientific experiments using methods that are a bit more 'low-tech.'
Off to a Rocky Start
Engineers and technicians have placed a barge in British Columbia's Kelly Lake, from which submersibles will be launched to explore the depths of the lake.
Research... at a Glance
Deliberate Delay
Researchers at Kelly Lake in British Columbia have been testing mission scenarios to simulate communication with explorers during travel to a near-Earth asteroid.
Islands of Life: On Yungay Salar
Chile's Atacama desert has provided a great deal of information about how life on Earth is able to survive in harsh conditions. An area known as 'Yungay salar' is where bacteria were first discovered living inside halite (salt) rocks.
Mapping Microbialites
Microbialites, strange carbonate structures that line the bottom of Pavilion Lake in British Columbia, Canada, come in many shapes and sizes. No-one knows why.
Islands of Life, Part 2
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile has long been utilized by astrobiologists as an analog environment for ancient Mars. Here, even bacteria have a hard time surviving.
