WTS-LV at Sea

Scientists from Large Lakes Observatory, University of Minnesota Duluth, are using McLane samplers to collect and study a microbial species from lakes around the globe. Pursuing Crenarchaeota, a single-celled archael microorganism, has led researchers from Lake Superior in the United States to Lake Malawi in East Africa. Their mission: to answer basic but important questions including why and how the molecular fossils left by these microbes reflect lake surface temperatures from the past. In 2009, a McLane WTS-LV was deployed in Lake Malawi, East Africa. Lake Malawi work has resulted in several successful prehistoric temperature reconstructions. For more information see the McLane Winter 2010 Newsletter.