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Article: Deep-sea vent life entices student.(Higher Education)(UO's Kristy Henscheid awaits a chance to go where worms can stand the heat)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2003
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Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard
Kristy Henscheid has gone a long way to look at a worm.
The University of Oregon graduate student is part of a research expedition that's now parked in the Pacific Ocean more than 1,000 miles off Costa Rica, where she's waiting for a chance to go another mile and a half straight down. There, along a sea bottom ridge known as the East Pacific Rise, vents spew out 500-degree water that provides a home for the Pompeii worm, the most heat-tolerant animal on the planet.
Henscheid and UO professor Andy Berglund are part of a team studying the Pompeii worm, hoping to figure out how it survives in some of the most ...