Beth Orcutt

Beth Orcutt
Orcutt in 2019
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Georgia
Scientific career
FieldsOceanography
InstitutionsBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Doctoral advisorSamantha Joye

Beth N. Orcutt is an American oceanographer whose research focuses on the microbial life of the ocean floor. As of 2012, she is a senior research scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.[1] She is also a senior scientist of the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, a Science and Technology Center funded by the National Science Foundation and headquartered at the University of Southern California[2] and part of the Deep Carbon Observatory Deep Life Community. Orcutt has made fundamental contributions to the study of life below the seafloor, particularly in oceanic crust[3][4][5][6][7] and has worked with the International Scientific Ocean Drilling Program.

  1. ^ Beth Orcutt, PhD, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, retrieved December 8, 2016
  2. ^ "People – C-DEBI". www.darkenergybiosphere.org. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  3. ^ Maine Science Festival (July 10, 2018), Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Sciences. "Buried Alive – Life Beneath the Seafloor", retrieved February 13, 2019
  4. ^ "Study shows unusual microbes hold clues to early life". Boothbay Register. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  5. ^ "Diving Deep to Reveal the Microbial Mysteries of Lost City". Smithsonian. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  6. ^ Brahic, Catherine. "Weird organisms emerge from the deep, dark biosphere". New Scientist. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  7. ^ "Breathing underwater: Evidence of microscopic life in oceanic crust". ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 13, 2019.