Bill Orsi (left) and his postdoctoral mentor, WHOI microbiologist Virginia Edgcomb (right), look for and analyze microscopic organisms living in extreme habitats, such as deep sediments, hypersaline pools, and anoxic (oxygen-free) areas of the ocean. Here, they work on an instrument designed to sample, incubate, and preserve microbes from specific depths in the ocean. (Photo by Cherie Winner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)[back]
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