Objectives
- Define the pathways that control how energy is released from ultramafic rocks as they react with low-temperature fluids
- Identify and interpret the process rates and ecology in systems undergoing water/rock reaction
- Quantify the geochemical and mineralogical progression of water/rock reactions in the presence and absence of biology
- Characterize microbial communities within rock-hosted ecosystems and evaluating their metabolic activities
- Develop and test predictive models of biological habitability during water/rock interaction
