Foothill High School student names new
microorganism
B
renna Hardtner, a student from Foothill High School
in Henderson, Nevada was honored in 2015 as the
winner of DRI’s first Bacteria Naming Contest.
Hardtner’s entry was selected from nearly 100
submissions from high school biology students across
the Clark Country School District.
The newly discovered bacterium, which Hardtner
named “Thermoanaerosceptrum fracticalcis”, will be
acknowledged in an internationally peer-reviewed
scientific research paper.
DRI scientist Scott Hamilton-Brehm, Ph.D.,
discovered the bacterium in a sample of water that
was collected from an aquifer at a depth of 923 meters
(almost two miles) below the surface of the Southern
Nevada desert.
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DRI hosts 2015 conference on military
geosciences
T
he 11th International Conference on Military
Geosciences (ICMG), was hosted in June 2015 by DRI
at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Held every two years, alternately between North
America and Europe, the conference provides a venue
for military personnel, academics, and practitioners
from government service and commercial enterprises to
explore a wide range of military geosciences. The 2015
conference theme focused on The Future of Military
Geosciences: Scientific Capabilities, Global Security and
Sustainability.
For more than 40 years, DRI research scientists,
students and staff have been supporting the missions
of our U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Army Research
Office and many other federal and private-sector military
partners.
Military geosciences remains one of DRI’s core
scientific focus areas and the future of applied research
and application in this field is critical to our nation’s
security.
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