The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program at Oregon State University and Portland State University focuses on life below the Earth's surface, "The Subsurface Biosphere".

 

This program is designed for graduate students who are interested in combining the disciplines of Engineering, Oceanography, Microbiology, Chemistry, Geology and Agriculture.

 

Students will work in two or more disciplines to discover:

  • How to solve environmental problems
  • How to improve our groundwater, soil and crops
  • How to determine the amount and diversity of microbes in hydrothermal vents, subsurface rocks and sediment
  • The relationship of microbes to the production of natural gas and economic minerals
  • How to understand how global chemical cycles are affected by microbes.

 

 

 
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