This interview originally aired on "In the Moment" on SDPB Radio.
We head deep beneath the Black Hills at the Sanford Underground Research Facility for a close look at the kind of water where extremophiles thrive.
Extremophiles are microbes that evolved to live in extreme environments.
Scott Beeler, Ph.D., is a research scientist at South Dakota Mines and the principal investigator on this study. Sarah Keenan, Ph.D., is a geochemist and assistant professor of geology and geological engineering at South Dakota Mines. She is the co-principal investigator on this research.
They discuss the water and minerals that support life living in the extreme.
