USC Dornsife News

A key innovator in the field of geomicrobiology, the professor of biological sciences and earth sciences led pioneering explorations to understand the subseafloor biosphere.

The $6.7 million research project led by USC Dornsife’s Jan Amend explores life below the Earth’s surface. The studies are connected to the search for life on Mars and elsewhere in the solar system.

Director of the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, USC Dornsife’s Katrina Edwards has received the prestigious A.G. Huntsman Award presented annually by the Royal Society of Canada.

Led by Jan Amend of earth sciences and biological sciences, a team of USC Dornsife researchers will study life in Earth’s subsurface biosphere with a $6 million grant from the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

Do you know what lies deep, deep below the ocean floor? With the support of a $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Katrina Edwards and her team are determined to find out.