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Life at High
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Life at High Temperatures
by Thomas D. Brock
© 1994 Yellowstone Association for Natural Science, History &
Education, Inc. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 82190.
Life at High Temperatures, by Thomas D. Brock, is published in
booklet
form by the Yellowstone Association for Natural Science, History &
Education, Inc.
© 1994 Yellowstone Association for Natural Science, History
&
Education, Inc. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 82190.
All photographs by Thomas D. Brock except as indicated.
The author acknowledges the advice and comments on the manuscript
from
M.T. Madigan, R.W. Castenholz, Katherine M. Brock, and the interpretive
staff of Yellowstone National Park.
The author sampling along the
Yellowstone River (1964)
Thomas D. Brock is E.B. Fred Professor of Natural
Sciences-Emeritus
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. in botany
and microbiology from Ohio State University. Since the mid-1960s, he
has
done field research in Yellowstone and from 1966-1975 maintained a
laboratory
at West Yellowstone, Montana. With numerous students and postdoctoral
associates,
he has carried out a wide range of research studies on the biology and
geochemistry of Yellowstone thermal systems. He is the author or
co-author
of over 250 research papers and over 20 books, including Thermophilic
Microorganisms and Life at High Temperatures (1978), which
describes
his research work in Yellowstone.
