In-situ detection of microbial life in the deep biosphere in igneous ocean crust

This research used data provided by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). Funding for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation, NASA Astrobiology Institute (Icy Worlds 13NAI720024 and Life Underground NNA13AA92A publication #067) and NASA Astrobiology Science and Instrument Development (GURILA NNH10ZDA001N). The authors would like to thank Wolfgang Bach, C. Geoff Wheat, Clayton Furman, Eric Meissner and Tania Lado-Insua for logistical and analytical support during the deployment of DEBI-t. Part of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This work was supported by the NSF Science and Technology Center for Dark Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI) (Award 0939564). Raw data is archived at the IODP-USIO Science Services website, administered by Texas A&M University.