Mary Hagedorn, which studies preserving coral reefs, wants to place a vital bank on the moon.Credit: Marco Garcia
Mary Hajarinorne spent contracts studying coral reproduction as part of an attempt to save coral reefs from their destruction by fast oceans. To collect valuable fragments of the life of the new coral, it must carefully synchronize its activities in the moon’s stages.
Coral reefs multiply at or near the completion of the moon, with a snowstorm of sperm and eggs in sparkling water, but the inability to predict by the adult coral reefs the moon makes field work a gamble. On one trip, “We are moving for 60 nights in a row” before picking up the magic moment, says Hagedorn.
Patience and perseverance needed to collect coral sperm, cooling, and transfer them to the laboratory to raise coral larvae, then release them in the ocean, can serve them well for another planned task: a literal satellite to preserve threatened organisms.
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HAGEDORN, research scientist at the Smithsonian Institute for Preservation in Biology in Kenyuhy, Hawaii, is part of a multidisciplinary team that suggests building a frozen warehouse in a permanently shaded polar area on the other side of the moon. Initially, the voltage would focus on cooling the real coffin of Noah in the lives of earthly animals. It will start with banking tissue samples of endangered and threatened animals, as well as a priority species. This will include pollinators and engineers of the ecosystem such as Qenades, through the construction of dams, complete systems of water environments for other living organisms. HAGEDORN and ten collaborators published the idea of Lunar Biorepository in 2024 in the magazine Biological sciences As a backup plan for biological diversity – a way to prepare life to Earth, or to other planets, in the event of a catastrophic loss (M. HAGEDORN And others. Biological sciences 74561-566; 2024).
Similar to the planned warehouse to Svalbard Global Seed Vault In the North North Pole, which stores the seeds of the genetic importance of food, agriculture and biological diversity in a deep rock cave under the iceberg held at -18 ° C. It is an ambitious idea facing many challenges, including the political climate in which science is undermined in the United States and abroad and lack of funding, especially when it relates to the effects of climate change. However, the idea of the vital moon acquires traction and is considered serious.
“We wanted something that can behave like Svalbard,” Hagedorn says, but there is no place on the ground naturally enough. Even svalbard needs to be cooled to keep her samples frozen. In 2016, it was unusually sent normal warm temperatures of the melting water to the cellar entrance. It was an invitation to wake up to a facility believed to be safe from failure because it is surrounded by soil.
Big thinking, background of the properties, HAGEDORN has paid that the lunar southern pole avoids climate fluctuations and temperature (see “Q&A High”). It is stored below the surface of the moon, and it also protects samples from another harmful factor: radiation. Another advantage is the lack of moon (so far) in war, violence, natural disasters, population and resource restoration. Samples can be stored and retrieved using similar robots for Marx Rovers.
Criticism that sampling can be a challenge, Hagedorn, with the exception of the end of the world, responds, “We will travel to space regularly in the future.”
Q&A fast shooting
If you can visit a site to get Piorepository on the moon, will you go?
In the heartbeat. I love to go to space. I have already applied to become an astronaut with NASA, but my eyesight was not good enough.
Each author in 2024 we have Biological sciences The paper that suggests biorepository like me-they are frustrated astronauts, science fiction enthusiasts, or both.
How did your vital team meet?
Around 2015, I was talking in London about biorepositories in general. I said, “You know, one of the best places that may have a group of vital eggs on the moon.”
After that, I presented this concept at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, and my colleagues’ response was, “This is really stupid – do not do this.” So I did not follow it, for about four years. But during the Covid-19 pandemic, I had some time, decided to collect a group together, and the meeting on the magnification. I only slept from there.
What is the biggest challenge to remove this project from the ground?
money. This project will cover many different fields, from space engineering to ethics, and there will be many scientific changes and hacking.
Everything is new; I think this will be very exciting. We just have to be patient and try to get some small grants to keep us continuous. There will be a way.
A compound image of the southern pole.Credit: Stocktrek Images/Getty
The site, the site, the site
HAGEDORN says that one of the favorite sites of the lunar biological tension in a hole is about 6 km deep, “deeper than Grand Canyon” in Arizona. In this shaded space permanently, the temperature is stable – at or less than -196 ° C.
The protection of the Earth’s life must be a top priority in the rush to clarify the moon’s sites for industry and research, as they argue with its participating authors, whose experience includes virgin science, medicine, engineering, weather research, coral biology, fish, law and politics. They issued an open invitation to others to cooperate in this ambitious program for decades.
The process will start with banking samples that contain fibrous cells. These fibrous cells are isolated from the cell culture process, then preserved. It can be dissolved later and converted into sperm and egg cells of the specified species. Ultimately, the entire living organisms can be re -submitted in their normal home.
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As evidence of the concept, the team will test one type at the International Space Station. Researchers plan to lift the pelvic fins from the Coral-Burid fish called appropriately called Starry Goby (ASTERROPCEYX SeemunctataAnd testing it in the space of allergies to radiation and minor gravity. They will also improve the optimum storage materials for cooling cells and study how frozen storage in space on DNA and the ability to extract and cultural cells from melted fins.
Once the team works on Kinks for Starry Gobies, it wants to expand in other types. There are plans to cooperate with continental samples that are already carried out by entities such as the National Environmental Observatory Network, funded by the American National Science Foundation (NSF) and collecting 100,000 biological samples annually of fresh habitats and terrestrial habitats.
The concentration of the brochures, coral reefs and lunar missions were not always. After obtaining a doctorate in marine biology at the Scripps Institute of Oceanic Sciences in La Joula, California, in 1983, Haguran then studied the physiology of electric fish and Cichlid fish (Peronian flag) As a post -PhD colleague. This research suddenly ended after the Boat Berofish riding accident, which claimed the lives of two colleagues. HAGEDORN could not bring herself to return, but she realized that she wanted to work on the effects of warming oceans, which prompted her to bleach and death – Canary in the ocean in the charcoal mine.
An article by a fierce physiological expert Kenni Ken Story, about the ability of frogs to freeze solid in winter and melting ice again in the spring (KB Storey and JM Storey Sci. I am. 26392-97; 1990), The idea of using the science of Al -Barashiya to preserve the ocean. “Nothing was done at that time while maintaining coral reefs,” says Hagedorn. She got a medium profession fellow at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC in 1996, to start working to keep books in fish. In 2004, the laboratory group was transferred to Hawaii, and expanded its scope of work to include development techniques to maintain a choir.
Biotopia bank can start with tissue samples from coral reefs and other endangered species.Credit: Andrew Hyuard, target
“I don’t think there is anyone else in the world known as coral biology like her,” says Mohamed Toner, a vital medical engineer at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who has known Hagirin for more than 30 years.
Toner and Hagedorn and their colleagues are funded by NSF as part of the ATP-BIO program, which combines partners from industry, academic circles, non-profit and government sector to investigate how samples of samples are provided and stored from cells to complete objects.
Toner’s Cryobiology Research includes work to understand how cells freeze and soluble ice without damaging them. “When I learned about the existence of the southern moon’s pole in cold temperatures, it sparked my attention,” says Toner, a co -author of the vital moon proposal.
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He explains that the virgin science that participates in preserving life through a group of biological diversity is very complex. “You take something alive to -196 ° C and return it” to the temperature of its habitats, alive. “I call it a miracle.” At the same time, it is noted that virgin science techniques have advanced significantly during the twenty to 30 years. “It is more predictable and implemented now,” he says.
Toner notes that their team is not the only one to compete for lunar properties. “This part of the moon has become very common,” as scientists also suggested polar drilling as locations for mines, telescopes and temporary human housing. In fact, NASA Artemis programWhich aims to drop humans on the moon again, encourages the exploration of moon resources.
John Bishov, a vital engineer at Minnesota University in Minneapolis and ATP-BIO director, notes HageDorn’s talent in identifying scientists to join their team. “You will bring you cooperation, and it shows you exactly the place where you can make a contribution, and explain the reason for the importance of this. So, even before you do anything, you are very set.” “It is fun to be around a person like Mary,” Bishov says, describing it as “well -related.”
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Claire Lager, director of Hagen, noticed since 2016, and as soon as she is a graduate student, that “a person wants to put things on the moon’s surface should be optimistic, hooping and very attractive”, and that Haguran matters to all boxes.