#  Microbes in Aquifers Beneath Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'Chow Down' on Carbon 

 





April 23, 2018

 

 

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 **Peter Girguis** and [Sunita Shah Walter](https://scholar.harvard.edu/shahwalter), University of Delaware (former Postdoc in **Girguis lab**), led a research team that has shown underground aquifers near the undersea Mid-Atlantic Ridge act like natural biological reactors, pulling in cold, oxygenated seawater, and allowing microbes to consume more refractory carbon than scientists believed. The study's results published in [Nature Geoscience](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0109-5) increase our knowledge of the carbon cycle. The research was supported by NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences. Media: [NSF](https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_images.jsp?cntn_id=244849&org=NSF), [Science Daily](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180424133625.htm)

#####  **\*Image courtesy Girguis Lab, Harvard University**



 

 

 



 

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