Dr. Henry Sun

Title: Assistant Research Professor
Affiliation: Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences
Location: DRI Las Vegas
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Phone: 702.862.5337

Research Areas of Interest and Expertise

• Life in extreme environments
• endolithic (inside rock) microorganisms in the Antarctic dry valleys, the Atacama Desert, and Death Valley
• mineral formations in microbial environments
• biological rock weathering, iron isotopic fractionation, and survival and adaptation in endolithic communities
• new approaches to planetary life detection; microbiology of compost tea making and its use as an alternative to fungicide in agriculture and viticulture.

Selected Current Research Projects

• D-Amino acids in endolithic communities
• Life in the Atacama Desert
• Mars life detection
• Endolithic microbial communities in Death Valley
• Compost tea as alternative to fungicides