Research in action, fish, beetles, snottites, and geological features of the cave. 2001-12-19

Participants: Diana Northup, Mike Spilde, Colin Fox (Pioneer Productions), Jim Pisarowicz, Neal Hines, Dawn Cardace, Penny Boston

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Close up of the serrated edged rocks near the entrance. Note the small spider. Diana Northup flash assistant.	Mike Spilde in stream by rillenkarren, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Diana Northup flash assistant.


Mike Spilde in stream by rillenkarren, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Diana Northup flash assistant.	Rillenkarren along side of stream, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico.


Amblypygid exuviae on wall beyond rillenkarren, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Diana Northup flash assistant.	Small spring beside the Teapot Pool, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico.


Diana Northup and Mike Spilde taking oxidation-reduction potentials at Teapot Pool, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Accepted for show at the 2007 NSS Print Salon. Used in the 2008 edition of the Cave and Karst studies brochure for the program at New Mexico Tech.	Diana Northup and Mike Spilde taking oxidation-reduction potentials at Teapot Pool, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico.


Taking oxidation-reduction potentials in the Teapot Pool muck, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico.	Diana Northup taking oxidation-reduction potentials in the Teapot Pool, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico.


Fish ("mollies") in stream Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico.	Wolf spider at bottom of entrance steps, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico.


Wolf spider at bottom of entrance steps, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico.	Spider and egg case in biovermiculations near entrance, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico.


Baby snottites on spider webs near entrance, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Diana Northup flash assistant.	Spider with gnat above spider webs on rock opposite entrance steps, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Diana Northup flash assistant.


Spider web with droplets on wall opposite entrance steps, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Diana Northup flash assistant.	Rillenkarren with fish, first pool to around right corner, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Mike Spilde flash assistant.


Rillenkarren with fish, first pool to around right corner, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Mike Spilde flash assistant.	Closeup of fish in rillenkarren, first pool to around right corner, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Mike Spilde flash assistant.


Diving beetles with egg case, first pool to around right corner, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Mike Spilde flash assistant.	Diana and Colin Fox (Pioneer Productions) looking at biovermiculations on wall opposite skylight.


Mist rising above river from Tapijulapa boat launch.	Teapot Pool and spring with Mike's dialysis cells, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Jim Pisarowicz flash assistant.


Teapot Pool and spring with Mike's dialysis cells, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Jim Pisarowicz flash assistant.	Small spring with fishing line to dialysis cells visible, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Jim Pisarowicz flash assistant.


Fishing line to dialysis cells coated with slime after 20 hours, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Jim Pisarowicz flash assistant.	Rimstone dam to right of teapot pool over mound, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.


Iguana near rimstone dam to right of teapot pool over mound, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.	Dawn Cardace and Penny Boston setting up the exoenzyme experiment while Mike Spilde takes a temperature reading near Teapot Pool, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.


Diana Northup taking oxidation-reduction potentials (ORP) in stream, upstream from Teapot Pool, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.	Spider on rock in stream, upstream from Teapot Pool, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.


Diving beetle with captured fish in spring near Teapot Pool, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico.	Exoenzyme experiment beside spring near Teapot Pool, with substrates for stearate, acetate, butyrate, glucoside, glucoaminide, xyloside, chitinoside, and sulfatase, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico.


Diana Northup looking at ORP probe in Teapot Pool mud, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.	Snottites upstream at next skylight from Teapot Pool, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.


Neal Hines under skylight, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.	Pyrite-covered rocks under water in Sala Grande, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Dawn Cardace and Neal Hines flash assistants.


Pyrite-covered rocks under water in Sala Grande, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.	Green rock covered with midges in Sala Grande, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.


Green rock covered with midges in Sala Grande, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.	Diana Northup and Jim Pisarowicz taking ORP measurements on the dividing line between the white and red portions of the stream in Sala Grande, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.


Boot print on trail up to Snot Heaven showing microbial growth after two days, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.	Closer view of boot print on trail up to Snot Heaven showing microbial growth after two days, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.


Red and black rock from stream showing the oxidized upper side (red) and unoxidized lower side (black), Sala Grande, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.	Sulfur Spring, Sala Grande, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.


Brain rock with waterfall cascading over it, Sala Grande, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant.	Snottites upstream at next skylight from Teapot Pool, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Neal Hines flash assistant. Published as the cover for the Florida Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting 2004, February 2004.


Serrated edged rocks near the entrance. Diana Northup flash assistant.