{"content":[{"text":"SCAR fellowship report 2011/12","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.06806,"width":0.27844,"height":0.015783000000000005}},{"text":"Granted Fellow","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.117371,"width":0.13500900000000002,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"David Velázquez, PhD.","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.141884,"width":0.19042700000000004,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Department of Biology. 28049, Madrid (Spain)","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.166397,"width":0.6688339999999999,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"Host","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.215709,"width":0.04033600000000001,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"Prof. John C. Priscu","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.240222,"width":0.161909,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"Montana State University.","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.264735,"width":0.21230999999999997,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences.","bbox":{"left":0.365183,"top":0.264735,"width":0.491153,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"59717 Bozeman, MT (USA)","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.289248,"width":0.230783,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"Duration","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.338559,"width":0.078437,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"November 2012-January 2013 (12 weeks stay for fieldwork at Dry Valleys, Antarctica)","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.363072,"width":0.705701,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"Work conducted","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.412383,"width":0.143983,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"Several microbial mats samples were collected during the Antarctic expedition, under","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.436896,"width":0.691745,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"the umbrella of MCM-LTER project. The priority was to collect benthic microbial mat","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.46141,"width":0.700757,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"samples from Lake Fryxell (Taylor Valley). Scuba divers from New Zealand who were","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.485923,"width":0.703983,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"working with the MCM-LTER carried out this task. Three different benthic samples","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.510721,"width":0.678901,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"were collected. The first one corresponded to the benthic fraction over the halocline; the","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.535234,"width":0.7112640000000001,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"second one was collected from below the halocline and the third one was collected deep","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.559747,"width":0.7101980000000001,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"below the euphotic zone. The main objective, corresponding to these samples, was to","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.58426,"width":0.687288,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"correlate the water-column conditions above every sample with the diversity of","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.609058,"width":0.63965,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"eukaryotic population living within the different microbial mats, as they were settled","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.633571,"width":0.6833950000000001,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"under different environmental conditions within the lake environment.","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.658084,"width":0.567994,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"As the MCM-LTER project has been monitoring the physical-chemical conditions of","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.707395,"width":0.686763,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"Lake Fryxell for more than 25 years, we carried out analyses of 18S rRNA gene","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.731909,"width":0.645778,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"diversity by high throughput methodologies (454 Roche pyrosequencing) to determine","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.756422,"width":0.698477,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"the eukaryotic diversity along the benthic gradient described above. Also, Cryo-SEM","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.780935,"width":0.687775,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"pictures and image analysis, stable isotopic signatures, and natural abundances of N and","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.805733,"width":0.7102390000000001,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"C have been carried out on the benthic samples and along the water column and ice-","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.830246,"width":0.6793410000000001,"height":0.01578299999999999}},{"text":"bound sediments.","bbox":{"left":0.14279,"top":0.854759,"width":0.141176,"height":0.01578299999999999}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}