Description: Volume 59 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry ties together themes common to environmental microbiology, earth science, and astrobiology. The resesarch presented here, the associated short course, and the volume production were supported by fu
Brief description: Jillian F. Banfield and Javiera Cervini-Silva, Berkeley, California, USA; Kenneth H. Nealson, Los Angeles, California, USA.