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This June, members of the Bosak Lab took a sampling trip to Green Lake, New York. After five hours of driving, a day probing the depths with a rowboat, a Niskin bottle, and 80 meters of rope – we returned with water samples from multiple depths of this meromictic lake, teeming with anaerobic, sulfur reducing bacteria. [...]
Professor Tanja Bosak wins MIT’s Harold E. Edgerton Award “in recognition both for the groundbreaking work that she has accomplished and the potential she has demonstrated to continue to transform the field of geobiology”. “In her quest to understand what life was like on Earth billions of years ago, Bosak has devised clever approaches, advancing [...]
Alex Petroff received 2010 Student Award and the Elizabeth Sulzman travel grant for his presentation about the growth geometry of conical stromatolites at the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting. Alex graduated in May 2011, is now a proud owner of a kayak and will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rockefeller Institute after getting lost in [...]
Tanja speaks about the Evolution of Photosynthesis for Science for the Public, a grassroots organization that aims to improve public understanding of science. http://www.scienceforthepublic.org/?page_id=944
In January 2010, we said goodbye to Kate and Biqing. Good luck to them in Kenya and Taiwan!
June 2009 (funded by MIT MISTI) Participants: Anastasia Maheras, Alexander Petroff, Mikhail Krupenin, Min Sub Sim, Tanja Bosak
Yellowstone National Park 2007, 2008 Participants: Dan Rothman, Gill Geesey, Alexander Petroff, Tanja Bosak (2007) Alexander Petroff, Min Sub Sim, Biqing Liang, Kate Harris (2008) (permit # YELL-2008-SCI-5758 from National Park Services)