A punto de abordar mi tercer vuelo, el que me lleva directo a Ponta Delgada Azores... a participar del Segundo DCO Early Career Scientist Workshop.

Han sido 22 horas de viaje, entre vuelos y retrasos... pero lo que me espera son 5 dias intensos, llenos de información y experiencias nuevas, para las que estoy lista con poster en mano, presentación oral terminada, botas de muestreo empacadas y Tigre que me acompaña. 

Estaremos dando updates del meeting a traves de Twitter con el #DCOECS15.

Nos pueden seguir a @deepcarb @M_CrespoMedina @Cecia_InterPR para mas información... 

Serpentinization is the process in which the mineral olivine reacts with water and gets transformed to serpentinite. The process creates a high pH fluid enriched in electron donors and acceptors that can be used by microorganisms for food and energy source, although living in these serpentinizing fluids represent challenges to the cell. 

The mineral olivine is abundant in ultramafic rocks, rocks that are representative of the uper mantle. At Ophiolites these ultramafic rocks are uplifted and are exposed obove sea level in continents. Thus, serpentinization can ocurr at the sea floor, but also at these continental ophiolites.