UNIVERSITY PARK - Soil
microbiologists in Penn State’s
Department of Agronomy are
discovering life in sediments 800
feet beneath the earth’s surface
a form of life that may help clean
polluted groundwaters.
As participants in a multi
million-dollar, multi-institutional
effort sponsored by the U.S.
Department of Energy, soil
scientists Jean-Marc Bollag and
Eugene Madsen are analyzing how
microorganisms metabolize
organic compounds.
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Scientists Unearth
The soil samples come from
holes drilled at a research site of
the Savannah River Ecology
Laboratory in Aiken, South
Carolina.
“Until about 10 years ago,
scientists thought microbial life in
the soil extended no deeper than
about six feet,” says Dr. Bollag.
“Recently several national
laboratories concerned about
groundwater contamination, in
cluding Savannah River Lab,
began drilling deep into the soil to
detect chemicals and to charac-
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Clue To Cleaning Groundwater
terize subsurface geology. The
thought was, if they are going to
drill such holes, why not look for
microorganisms at the same
time?”
The Department of Energy’s
Subsurface Microbiology Program
brings together a team of
geologists, hydrologists, chemists
and microbial ecologists. In ad
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in the project include Cornell
University, Florida State
University, University of
Oklahoma, Brookhaven National
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Laboratory and Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory.
“Each group is looking at a
specific aspect,” Dr. Bollag ex
plains. “Our interest is in the
metabolism, or activity, of these
microorganisms.”
The Penn State project received
a total of $60,000 for one year from
the Department of Energy and the
Savannah River Ecology
Laboratory.
Metabolism of organic com
pounds is a process characteristic
of soil microorganisms at the
earth’s surface. Different types of
surface microorganisms, present
in vast numbers, produce enzymes
and cause physiological processes
that recycle and detoxify both
natural and manmade organic
substances. If microorganisms in
deep aquifers act the same way,
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The goals of the Subsurface
Microbiology Program include
determining the abundance and
diversity of microorganisms in the
deep soil, evaluating the factors
that control microorganism ac
tivity, comparing deep microbial
populations to those of the near
surface and evaluating the im
plications of subsurface mirobial
activity.
Although the program is in its
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Bollag and Madsen as well as other
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