With the construction of the International Space Station, humans have been continuously
living and working in space for 22 years. Microbial studies in space and other extreme …

A persistent presence in space can either be supported from Earth or generate the required
resources for human survival from material already present in space, so called “in situ …

Geomicrobiology investigates the interactions of microorganisms with geological substrates,
and this branch of microbiology has enormous potential in the exploration and settlement of …

In this paper, we describe the development of an International Space Station experiment,
BioRock. The purpose of this experiment is to investigate biofilm formation and microbe …

Synthetic geomicrobiology is a potentially new branch of synthetic biology that seeks to
achieve improvements in microbe–mineral interactions for practical applications. In this …

Batch culture experiments were performed to investigate the weathering of meteoritic
material by iron‐oxidizing bacteria. The aerobic, acidophilic iron oxidizer (A. ferrooxidans) …

The 2005 ICDP-USGS deep drilling of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure (CBIS)
returned the first complete core through an impact structure. A strict set of contamination …