Environments

Alkaline Lake
Microbes of Alkaline Lake
Black Sand Basin ~ home to heterophiles
http://starcentral.mbl.edu/msr/rawdata/viewable/moy127w.jpg

Grand Prismatic Basin
http://starcentral.mbl.edu/msr/rawdata/viewable/moy110w.jpg

Grand Prismatic Microbial Mats
http://starcentral.mbl.edu/msr/rawdata/viewable/moy111w.jpg

Octopus Springs
http://starcentral.mbl.edu/msr/rawdata/viewable/moy104w.jpg

Travertine Terraces south of Mammoth
http://starcentral.mbl.edu/msr/rawdata/viewable/moy015w.jpg

Mono Lake
http://serc.carleton.edu/images/microbelife/Mono_Lake_08.jpg

Mono Lake 2
Mono Lake

Morning Glory Pool
http://microscope.mbl.edu/baypaul/microscope/t_siteimages/moy014w.jpg


Microbial Mats
http://microscope.mbl.edu/baypaul/microscope/t_siteimages/moy022w.jpg

Microbes form brightly colored biofilms in almost any aquatic environments - from rocks to the surfaces of teeth (as dental plaque). Mats are biofilms that are formed on a large scale. Such structures form when microbes secrete sticky sugar and protein polymers that hold the biofilms together. The gelatinous material provides protection allowing less tolerant species to survive under the extreme conditions where the mats form. There are many kinds of mats, from loosely formed clumps of algae, to massive, gelatinous structures extending for many meters. Within the Park, it is possible to see mats which are green, yellow, red, brown, darkbrown - and many other colors. They form on sediments, sinter, travertine, rocks or float in water.
Microbial Mat La Duke Spring
http://microscope.mbl.edu/baypaul/microscope/images/t_imgAZ/moy276w.jpg

Mat Section La Duke Spring
http://microscope.mbl.edu/baypaul/microscope/images/t_imgAZ/moy277w.jpg

Mat close-up ~ photosynthetic bubbles
http://microscope.mbl.edu/baypaul/microscope/images/t_imgAZ/moy281w.jpg


Mat EM
http://microscope.mbl.edu/baypaul/microscope/images/t_imgAZ/moy279w.jpg

Cyanobacterial Mat
http://microscope.mbl.edu/baypaul/microscope/images/t_imgAZ/moy283w.jpg

Mini Stromatolites 1 inch high, La Duke Spring
http://microscope.mbl.edu/baypaul/microscope/images/t_imgAZ/moy284w.jpg


Microcystis Alkaline Lake
Microcystis

Microcystis Alkaline Lake