Taking stock of subsurface microbial communities at Hanford
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
Taking a census provides valuable information about residents' ages, employment, makeup, living conditions, etc. Most censuses are taken door to door or by mail. But if the community lives in areas that are inaccessible by typical methods, how do you get a meaningful census? That's the question scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory faced when they wanted to tally the microbes within a cross section of the Hanford Site subsurface in south-central Washington state.