Workshop white paper
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29 May 2015
Workshop white paper |
| 29 May 2015
Workshop to develop deep-life continental scientific drilling projects
T. L. Kieft
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Biology, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM 87801, USA
T. C. Onstott
Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
L. Ahonen
Geological Survey of Finland, P.O. Box 96, 02151 Espoo, Finland
V. Aloisi
Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Place Jussieu 4, Case 100, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
F. S. Colwell
College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
B. Engelen
Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
S. Fendrihan
Romanian Bioresources Centre, Sector 6, Bucharest, Romania
E. Gaidos
Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
International Scientific Drilling Program, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg C-425, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
I. Head
Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE17RU, UK
J. Kallmeyer
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg C-425, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
B. Kiel Reese
Department of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, 6300 Ocean Drive, Unit 5800, Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5800, USA
L.-H. Lin
Department of Geosciences National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
P. E. Long
Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
D. P. Moser
Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, 755 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA
H. Mills
Division of Natural Sciences, School of Science and Computer Engineering, University of Houston Clear Lake, Houston, TX 77058, USA
P. Sar
Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721 302, India
D. Schulze-Makuch
Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, and Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
H. Stan-Lotter
Division of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
D. Wagner
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg C-425, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
P.-L. Wang
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
F. Westall
Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR CNRS 4301, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
M. J. Wilkins
School of Earth Sciences and Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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