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APL HONORS: Bill Plant, principal research scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory, is the recipient of the John Wesley Powell Award, presented by the U.

August 14, 2003

Genomes of tiny microbes promise insight into oceans, climate change

The world’s smallest photosynthetic organisms, microbes that can turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into living biomass like plants do, are in the limelight this week. Three international teams of scientists announced the genetic blueprints for four closely related forms of these organisms, which numerically dominate the phytoplankton of the oceans.

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The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.

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BEST IN SHOW: Staffers Kathy Hall and Cathy Schwartz received the international Best of Show and Distinguished Technical Communication awards from the Society for Technical Communication (STC) for the Department of Environmental Health’s 1999–2001 biennial report.

Seafloor vent systems may have spawned earliest life

Black smoker hydrothermal vent systems may have the fire power, but the staying power of seafloor hydrothermal vent systems like the bizarre Lost City vent field — discovered just two and a half years ago — is one reason they may have been incubators of some of Earth’s earliest life, say Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ scientists and their co-authors in a recent issue of Science.