Expeditions

• Return to Lost City 2018. Departed Woods Hole, Massachusetts on September 8 aboard the R/V Atlantis with a team of scientists and the ROV Jason team. Returned to San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 1. An NSF-funded oceanography expedition, with additional support provided by the NASA Astrobiology Institute Rock-Powered Life Team, the Sloan Foundation’s Deep Carbon Observatory, and the NSF-funded Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations. Twitter: #LostCity2018.
• Previous expeditions to the Lost City are described here.

Publications and Data

• Julia McGonigle’s 2020 paper “Genomic Evidence for Formate Metabolism by Chloroflexi as the Key to Unlocking Deep Carbon in Lost City Microbial Ecosystems” and associated data